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Great Novels About Terrible People

If every hero were as gentle and wise as Atticus Finch, every heroine as noble and resourceful as Katniss Everdeen, every villain as dastardly and irredeemable as Lord Voldemort, well . . . we might as well just all watch reruns of "The Brady Bunch" since we'd be living in one simplistic universe. It's easy to write bad books about bad people (I'm looking at YOU, Bret Easton Ellis), but it takes talent and insight to create a complex, attractive, and thoroughly detestable protagonist. And then there's Dreiser.
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The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom
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All the King's Men
All the King's Men
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An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
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And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Babbitt
Babbitt
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock
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By Nightfall
By Nightfall
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
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The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice
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Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
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East of Eden
East of Eden
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Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
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Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
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The Godfather
The Godfather
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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The Grifters
The Grifters
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Ironweed (William Kennedy)
Ironweed (William Kennedy)
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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
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My Life as a Man
My Life as a Man
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Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
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Native Son
Native Son
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
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Perfume
Perfume
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream
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Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road
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Room at the Top
Room at the Top
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The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining (Stephen King)
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Solar
Solar
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