First Person

First-person narrative is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing.

The narrators explicitly refer to themselves using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no o
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Fault in Our Stars
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
The Great Gatsby
Shanghai Nobody by Vann ChowA Dusted Soul by Virginia AirdEarth Won't Miss You by Orson De Witt
Sarcastic Young Man or Woman Book
3 books — 3 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensMoby Dick by Herman Melville
"Dear Reader" The Involved Narrator
63 books — 18 voters

Tangled by Emma ChaseWalking Disaster by Jamie McGuireBeautiful Bastard by Christina LaurenOver the Fence by Melanie MorelandPlaying for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson
Romance Books: Male POV
709 books — 942 voters
Where She Went by Gayle FormanBeautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeLooking for Alaska by John  GreenThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Books With Only Male POV, First Person
177 books — 143 voters

Tall, Tatted and Tempting by Tammy FalknerTangled by Emma ChaseLiliana by Neva Squires-RodriguezWith You by Nashoda RoseFriend-Zoned by Belle Aurora
first person
80 books — 20 voters
The Meat Market by James ChalkThe Secret of Excalibur by Sahara FoleySkinhead... The Life I Chose by Spike Pitt2004 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie2005 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie
Best Narration From First Person POV
55 books — 64 voters

Dexter Palmer
It seems strange and inaccurate, when writing of what oneself once was, to speak of oneself as 'I,' especially when I find it difficult to own up to some of the actions performed by the people I once was . . . the only way to make sense of our existences is to set the stories of our lives down on paper, to try to make one tale that shows how the twentieth century turned Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into Harold Winslow into me. ...more
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Albert Camus
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation. ...more
Albert Camus, The Fall

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