# Can anyone recommend some good first person fiction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-some-good-first-person-fiction/205403 "2003-10-03T18:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-some-good-first-person-fiction/205403/21 "2003-10-06T22:46:48Z")
_Moby Dick_ by Herman Melville. (Famous opening: “Call me Ishmael.”) _Huckleberry Finn_ by Mark Twain. _Lolita_ by Vladimir Nabakov. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-some-good-first-person-fiction/205403/22 "2003-10-06T22:55:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scribble \* > \*\*_Tales of the City_, by Armistead Maupin. \*\* I read this recently and I’m pretty sure it’s all third person, although from several different points of view. _Smilla’s Sense of Snow_ is mostly excellent, and probably different enough to qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-some-good-first-person-fiction/205403/23 "2003-10-06T23:03:03Z")
Isn’t _The Catcher in the Rye_ written in first person? (Checks) Yes. I’d say that’s about as good first person fiction can get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-some-good-first-person-fiction/205403.md?page=1)