I don’t mean like villains, i mean like realistic stories about assholes, where the point of the story is that the MC is a bad person/someone you can’t like. But maybe like they’re also an asshole in a relate-able way. Like the catcher in the rye, diary of an oxygen thief, bojack horseman.
by thesnailbro
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*My Year of Rest and Relaxation* is my favorite take on “asshole but not like a murderer” protagonist.
{{Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney}}
The Stranger by Camus
Humbert-Humber from *Lolita* by Nabokov
Viktor Frankenstein from *Frankenstein* by Shelley
Harry Angstrom from *Rabbit, Run* by Updike
Many of the main characters/narrators in the short stories of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe are not good people either.
The _Flashman_ series by George Macdonald Fraser, but mc is really a very horrible person, so be warned
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs