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 present-tense
Everything happens in the character's 'now'.
 * Atwood, Cat's Eye
 * Dubus, House of Sand and Fog
 * Ellis, American Psycho
 * Ford, "Independence Day"
 * Frey, A Million Little Pieces
 * Hornby, High Fidelity
 * Palahniuk, Fight Club
 * Wong, The Pacific Between

First person protagonist
Where the narrator is the protagonist of the novel
 * Dinesen, Out of Africa
 * 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
 * Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
 * Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Mann, Doktor Faustus

Multiple first person
Where multiple characters individually narrate from first-person POV
 * Bronte, Wuthering Heights
 * Irving, Setting Free the Bears
 * Korman, No More Dead Dogs
 * William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
 * Graham Swift, Last Orders
 * Julian Barnes, Talking it Over
 * Ana Castillo, The Guardians
 * Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
 * Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
 * Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Present tense

 * Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (odd-numbered chapters)
 * McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
 * Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
 * Camus, The Fall
 * Murakami, After Dark

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.
 * Kelman, how late it was, how late.

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, The Sound and The Fury
 * Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
 * Wharton, Ethan Frome
 * Franzen, The Corrections
 * Winterson, Art & Lies