The New House by Tess Stimson is quite good take on the psychopath’s perspective
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*A Certain Hunger* by Chelsea Summers is about a woman who would probably be considered a sociopath. She just simply doesn’t have a moral compass. It’s written as if it were the main character’s memoir from prison. It’s a fascinating read. The character was a food writer for a popular culinary magazine. She indulges in life’s pleasures. Predominantly travel, food, and sex. Ends up killing men and eating them. It’s a great read and beautifully written.
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Yukikaze by Chohei Kambiyashi. Main character is an autistic coded man who displays very little outward emotion or passion and it often causes him friction with other people. Inwardly he has a rich emotional life, but outwardly he’s cold. Regardless, he doesn’t really care about the situation, war he’s in, why he’s there, where he’s going later, what the purpose of it all is. This is a very common Japanese character archetype in genre fiction.
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Catcher in the Rye
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{{Blindsight by Peter Watts}}
It’s a sci-fi. The main character had part of his brain surgically removed, which switched off his emotions and the ability to read social clues. It’s kinda jargon heavy even for a hard sci-fi, though.
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Sea Change by Gina Chung
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The Stranger or The Outsider by Albert Camus
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The Rosie Project
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Catherine House! Different from some of the other suggestions here in that the main character isn’t sociopathic but deeply depressed and disassociated from what’s going on around her. It has very mixed reviews (I think from being erroneously marketed as a plot-focused horror/thriller, when it’s really more character focused and meandering), but I personally loved it.
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The New House by Tess Stimson is quite good take on the psychopath’s perspective
*A Certain Hunger* by Chelsea Summers is about a woman who would probably be considered a sociopath. She just simply doesn’t have a moral compass. It’s written as if it were the main character’s memoir from prison. It’s a fascinating read. The character was a food writer for a popular culinary magazine. She indulges in life’s pleasures. Predominantly travel, food, and sex. Ends up killing men and eating them. It’s a great read and beautifully written.
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambiyashi. Main character is an autistic coded man who displays very little outward emotion or passion and it often causes him friction with other people. Inwardly he has a rich emotional life, but outwardly he’s cold. Regardless, he doesn’t really care about the situation, war he’s in, why he’s there, where he’s going later, what the purpose of it all is. This is a very common Japanese character archetype in genre fiction.
Catcher in the Rye
{{Blindsight by Peter Watts}}
It’s a sci-fi. The main character had part of his brain surgically removed, which switched off his emotions and the ability to read social clues. It’s kinda jargon heavy even for a hard sci-fi, though.
Sea Change by Gina Chung
The Stranger or The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Rosie Project
Catherine House! Different from some of the other suggestions here in that the main character isn’t sociopathic but deeply depressed and disassociated from what’s going on around her. It has very mixed reviews (I think from being erroneously marketed as a plot-focused horror/thriller, when it’s really more character focused and meandering), but I personally loved it.