Anti-heroines in fiction

Description
I may not want to know them in real life but I love reading about them.
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
14,777 members
193 reviews
3.9
5 Members
thorold, souloftherose, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
souloftherose: Becky Sharp has to be one of the most interesting anti-heroines
2
The Eustace Diamonds
by Anthony Trollope
1,985 members
40 reviews
3.9
4 Members
thorold, souloftherose, BonnieJune54, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
souloftherose: Lizzie Eustace
3
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
43,389 members
1,752 reviews
4
4 Members
KimarieBee, souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
souloftherose: Lisbeth Salander
4
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
26,292 members
232 reviews
4
4 Members
souloftherose, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
souloftherose: Lady Macbeth
5
Lady Susan
by Jane Austen
1,977 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
souloftherose, BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
6
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
42,895 members
1,124 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
Emma
by Jane Austen
38,282 members
506 reviews
4.1
3 Members
souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
8
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
7,724 members
102 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
BonnieJune54, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
8,240 members
426 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
38,733 members
440 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
11
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,563 members
443 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
souloftherose, BonnieJune54
12
She
by H. Rider Haggard
2,945 members
73 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
BonnieJune54, ahef1963
13
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
19,263 members
348 reviews
4
2 Members
BonnieJune54, ahef1963
14
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
4,123 members
145 reviews
4
2 Members
souloftherose, BonnieJune54
15
A Scandal in Bohemia
by Arthur Conan Doyle
216 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Anna Karenina
by León Tolstói
38,691 members
633 reviews
4.1
Member
EMS_24
17
Tampa
by Alissa Nutting
962 members
79 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
EssieYesterday
18
Moll Cutpurse, Her True History
by Ellen Galford
155 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
19
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
2,416 members
67 reviews
4
2 Members
souloftherose, BonnieJune54,
Explanations
souloftherose: Undine Spragg
20
Christiane F. My second life
by Christiane F.
65 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
EMS_24
21
Angel
by Elizabeth Taylor
878 members
33 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
22
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
2,171 members
88 reviews
3.9
Member
souloftherose
Explanations
souloftherose: Claudia
23
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
64,927 members
3,497 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
24
The American Senator
by Anthony Trollope
558 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
souloftherose
Explanations
souloftherose: Arabella Trefoil
25
The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton
3,771 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
BonnieJune54
26
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
26,364 members
390 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
27
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,298 members
1,547 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
28
The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
7,405 members
132 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
29
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
7,882 members
287 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
30
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
8,637 members
97 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
31
Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
by John Cleland
3,342 members
58 reviews
3.2
Member
ahef1963
32
Bridget Jones's Diary (MIXED WORKS)
52 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
33
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
12,727 members
257 reviews
3.8
34
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
9,754 members
204 reviews
4
35
Sula
by Toni Morrison
7,727 members
98 reviews
3.8
36
My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One
by Elena Ferrante
7,243 members
322 reviews
3.9
37
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
6,519 members
87 reviews
4.1
38
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
4,700 members
70 reviews
4
39
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
3,804 members
217 reviews
½ 3.6
40
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
3,169 members
80 reviews
3.8
41
Notes on a Scandal
by Zoë Heller
3,099 members
105 reviews
½ 3.6
42
Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
2,946 members
135 reviews
½ 3.7
43
Medea [in Translation]
by Euripides
2,933 members
50 reviews
3.8
44
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
1,584 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Good Morning, Midnight
by Jean Rhys
1,454 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
46
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante
1,346 members
51 reviews
3.8
47
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,254 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
48
Veronica
by Mary Gaitskill
1,166 members
27 reviews
½ 3.3
49
Dare Me
by Megan Abbott
1,059 members
92 reviews
½ 3.4
50
Near to the Wild Heart
by Clarice Lispector
893 members
21 reviews
3.8
51
Two Serious Ladies
by Jane Bowles
805 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
52
How Should a Person Be?
by Sheila Heti
773 members
42 reviews
3.1
53
Cassandra at the Wedding
by Dorothy Baker
722 members
24 reviews
3.9
54
Nobody Is Ever Missing
by Catherine Lacey
415 members
23 reviews
3.2
55
Treasure Island!!!
by Sara Levine
338 members
36 reviews
½ 3.4
56
Mouchette
by Georges Bernanos
297 members
5 reviews
3.8
57
After Claude
by Iris Owens
263 members
26 reviews
3.2
58
Ride a Cockhorse
by Raymond A Kennedy
165 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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Jillian
by Halle Butler
130 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4