# Recommend me some fiction with 1st person POV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 24, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546 "2003-07-24T04:03:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546/21 "2003-07-24T11:36:55Z")

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Fredric Brown’s **The Fabulous Clipjoint**. Also, in effect, **The Screaming Mimi**.

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**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546/22 "2003-07-24T12:22:38Z")

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If you can find copies try _[The Book of Skulls](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684125900/qid=1059049639/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-3342682-1871863?v=glance&s=books)_ and _Dying Inside_ by Robert Silverberg

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546/23 "2003-07-24T12:39:07Z")

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If you like whodunits: Ed McBain’s Matthew Hope’s mysteries, Andrew Vachss’s Burke’s mysteries, and Kinky Friedman’s Kinky Friedman’s mysteries. They are, in order: very realistict, very roman noir, and very funny and absurd. They are also the three people I hope write about 9/11 some day.

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**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546/24 "2003-07-24T13:06:33Z")

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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-fiction-with-1st-person-pov/190546/25 "2003-07-24T13:11:27Z")

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I have recently read, and greatly enjoyed, a novel called _Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream_ by John Derbyshire, that may be the kind of thing you’re looking for.

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