List of novels by point of view

The following alphabetical lists of novels are categorized by the narrator's  point of view.

The intent of this article is not to be comprehensive, but to compare at a glance various points of view by providing well known examples.

First person protagonist
Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel
 * Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
 * Sebold, The Lovely Bones

First person ancillary
Where the narrator observes action, but is an ancillary character
 * Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
 * Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
 * Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Multiple first person
Where multiple characters individually narrate from first-person POV
 * Irving, Setting Free the Bears
 * Korman, No More Dead Dogs

Present tense

 * McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (novel)
 * Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
 * Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller (odd-numbered chapters)

Past tense

 * Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 1

Third person, limited

 * Card, Ender's Game. The parallel novel Ender's Shadow is told from the same limited perspective following a different character.

Third person, omniscient or dramatic

 * McCullough, The Thornbirds
 * Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
 * Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Third person, objective

 * Wolfe, The Right Stuff

Multiple points of view

 * Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
 * Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury