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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Can anyone suggest an author or a book title that is written in the 1st person?Question: Can anyone suggest an author or a book title that is written in the 1st person!? Hi! I'm in the process of researching books or authors that take the 1st person POV!. I would like to compare that form written in the present and in the past tense, so any suggestion will be super helpful!. If you have any suggestions, can you also let me know which tense it's written in!? Thanks for your help :)Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Good books written in first person: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway Never Let me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov High Fidelity, Nick Hornby Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk High Fidelity and Fight Club are in the present tense; the tense in Pale Fire is a but strange (everything about that book is strange), but it's kind of present!. The first segment of the four parts of the Sound and the Fury is a stream of consciousness that mostly present tense!. Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com My all-time favorite book "A Time for Dancing" and its sequel "The Farther You Run" both by Davida Wills Hurwin is written in the first person point of view and is in the past tense!. The book is narrated by the two lead characters in alternating chapters and they don't repeat the story and explain their side as what has been done by Wendelin Van Draanen in "Flipped"!.!.!. which honestly really sucked!. Oh btw, "Flipped" is also in the first person POV, though I'm not quite sure what tense it's in!.!. I would guess it's past though!. Elsewhere on the other hand is in the present tense and is also in the first person POV!. The TWILIGHT books by Stephanie Meyer is in the first person POV as well, and is in past tense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My Sister's Keeper is written in 1st person, and the person telling the story switches throughout the book!. Many of Jodi Piccolt's other books are tld in 1st person I think!. The Twilight Saga is also told in 1st person, and so is A Little Friendly Advice by Siobhan Vivian!. (I'm not sure if I got the author's names spelt right)Www@QuestionHome@Com The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - the character Holden Caulfield has a unique point of view and his angst is nearly tangible!. That is probably one of the most powerfully written novels of all time and the first person POV is a good example to use!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A Northern Light (I don't remember the author!. Sorry!) It speaks from first person and switches between past and present tense, depending on where the story is and flashbacks and all of that!. It's a pretty good book, too, but I think this might be helpful for you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Twilight by stephenie meyer--present tense 1st person Beyond all reason by david smith--past tense 1st person pretty much any autobiography would work for 1st person past tenseWww@QuestionHome@Com sarah dessen books!. shes the author and writes in first person!. im almost positive they are in present tense help with my story!? http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Life of Pi I believe it is in first person!. It goes back and forth but it is very good book to enjoy reading!. I will try to remember more!. Www@QuestionHome@Com RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Kris kuzneski= present tense, i think UFO EXPERIENCE by Strieber, Whitney= past tenseWww@QuestionHome@Com [1st person] The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerWww@QuestionHome@Com twilight, new moon, eclips by stephanie meyer-past tense the host-same besides that im brain fried, so sorry good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com The Catcher in the Rye by J!.D!. Sallinger!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Journey to the Center of the Earth (shorter) War of the Worlds Hagrid ? http://www!.life-after-harry-potter!.com ?Www@QuestionHome@Com A Clockwork Orange, Catcher in the Rye!. You might look at As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner!. He uses 15 different narrators in that book!. Pax-CWww@QuestionHome@Com im pretty sure the book Go Ask Alice is!. its by annonymous but its really good Www@QuestionHome@Com twilight saga by stephanie meyerWww@QuestionHome@Com the clockwork orange - it is 1st personWww@QuestionHome@Com kafkaWww@QuestionHome@Com Twilight i guess Www@QuestionHome@Com the secret life of bees Www@QuestionHome@Com |