An excellent question. In the cases of the “my side” novels, like the Dracula and King Kong ones I list above, the character is clearly the villain in the original work.
There’s always Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series. The TV series was inspired by (heck, the first season absolutely paralleled) the first book, but the books and TV series seriously parted ways immediately thereafter. Dexter occasionally breaks some laws to do what he feels is the right thing. You know, laws like the one against cold-blooded murder.
By the way, you might want to pretend that the third book in the series doesn’t exist. It’s a major misfire.
I never read the book and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movie and I assume this isn’t quite what the OP had in mind since it’s not like we’re going and following the villain as he commits his crimes, but how about Dead Man Walking.
They’re certainly very naughty boys, but I don’t know as I’d call them “the villain.” It’s all a matter of perspective, and from theirs (and thus, the reader’s), they’re anything but. The Grey King is the villain in the first book; I’m sure they’ve got others in the latter books.
Technically, that also fits the aforementioned Flashman; he’s the bully who antagonizes our hero in Tom Brown’s School Days before getting expelled for drunkenness, and the idea is that he’s now narrating his adventures for us – as an unrepentant coward who rapes and cheats his way through the novel while lacking even the decency to pay up once the offer of a bribe has already gotten the job done.
Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart has the titular brothers steal and murder their way across medieval Europe and the Middle East, always just a few steps ahead of a literal pack of demons called up in revenge by the survivors of their vile enterprises.
In the superhero deconstruction From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain the narrator is strongly implied to be an escaped supervillian with mind control powers.