Please suggest books/series with a clever main character
I’m craving a book/series with a clever main character. I’ve reread my favourites and am looking for something new. Bonus points if it has a great plot twist as well.
*Johannes Cabal: Necromancer* by Jonathan L Howard (there are 5 books in the series).
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How are we defining clever? Like MacGyver clever, Sherlock Holmes clever, or Young Sheldon clever? Witty?
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Gone with the Wind
The Ripley series
The Count of Monte Cristo
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*The Thief*, Megan Whalen Turner
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The Dresden files
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Dungeon crawler Carl book series. Funny, clever and very different
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I’m interpreting ‘clever’ as someone thoughtful and making connections/seeing patterns or irregularities that others don’t.
I’m 100 pages out from finishing *Scrublands* by Chris Hammer. The protagonist is a journalist with sharp instincts and charm. I’m really enjoying it and there are a few unexpected twists. There’s a few books in this series and a spin-off following the detectives from *Scrublands*.
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The Day of the Jackal
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The Steve Winslow series by Parnell Hall.
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The Silo series. Wool is the first novel. Main character is an engineer who macgyvers her way through a lot of problems.
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The Maggie Hope spy series
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A Gentleman in Moscow has one of my favorite main characters ever. He begins as simply clever, but it seems that he has had an easy life that lets him be clever. Over the course of the novel he deepens and the cleverness becomes character. Also, the audiobook is fantastic.
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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is definitely this. It’s a spy novel where the protagonist infiltrates this French commune, but she overestimates her own cleverness so often that it actually makes her dumb.
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*Johannes Cabal: Necromancer* by Jonathan L Howard (there are 5 books in the series).
How are we defining clever? Like MacGyver clever, Sherlock Holmes clever, or Young Sheldon clever? Witty?
Gone with the Wind
The Ripley series
The Count of Monte Cristo
*The Thief*, Megan Whalen Turner
The Dresden files
Dungeon crawler Carl book series. Funny, clever and very different
I’m interpreting ‘clever’ as someone thoughtful and making connections/seeing patterns or irregularities that others don’t.
I’m 100 pages out from finishing *Scrublands* by Chris Hammer. The protagonist is a journalist with sharp instincts and charm. I’m really enjoying it and there are a few unexpected twists. There’s a few books in this series and a spin-off following the detectives from *Scrublands*.
The Day of the Jackal
The Steve Winslow series by Parnell Hall.
The Silo series. Wool is the first novel. Main character is an engineer who macgyvers her way through a lot of problems.
The Maggie Hope spy series
A Gentleman in Moscow has one of my favorite main characters ever. He begins as simply clever, but it seems that he has had an easy life that lets him be clever. Over the course of the novel he deepens and the cleverness becomes character. Also, the audiobook is fantastic.
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is definitely this. It’s a spy novel where the protagonist infiltrates this French commune, but she overestimates her own cleverness so often that it actually makes her dumb.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series.