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The following alphabetical lists of novels are categorized by the narrator's point of view.

The intent of this article is not to be comprehensive, but to compare at a glance various points of view by providing well known examples.

Contents 1 First person 1.1 First person present-tense 1.2 First person protagonist 1.3 First person ancillary 1.4 Multiple first person 2 Second person 2.1 Present tense 2.2 Past tense 3 Third person 3.1 Third person, limited 3.2 Third person, omniscient or dramatic 3.3 Third person, objective 4 Multiple points of view 5 Alternate point of view 6 See also

First person

First person present-tense

Everything happens in the character's 'now'.

• Atwood, Cat's Eye
• Dubus, House of Sand and Fog
• Ellis, American Psycho
• Frey, A Million Little Pieces
• Hornby, High Fidelity
• Palahniuk, Fight Club

First person protagonist

Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel

• Dinesen, Out of Africa
• Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
• Sebold, The Lovely Bones

First person ancillary

Where the narrator observes action, but is an ancillary character

• Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
• Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
• Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Mann, Doktor Faustus

Multiple first person

Where multiple characters individually narrate from first-person POV

• Irving, Setting Free the Bears
• Korman, No More Dead Dogs
• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (novel)
• Graham Swift, Last Orders
• Julian Barnes, Talking it Over
• Ana Castillo, The Guardians
• Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Second person

Present tense

• Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller (odd-numbered chapters)
• McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (novel)
• Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Past tense

• Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1

Third person

Third person, limited

• Card, Ender's Game. The parallel novel Ender's Shadow is told from the same limited perspective following a different character.

Third person, omniscient or dramatic

• McCullough, The Thornbirds
• Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
• Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Third person, objective

• Wolfe, The Right Stuff

Multiple points of view

• Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury
• Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• Wharton, Ethan Frome

Alternate point of view

See also

• Literature
• Point of view
• Literary terms