Are there any books out there that you have read in a first-person perspective of a bad guy? Maybe that’s a serial killer or awful husband or wife? I would love to see if an author can really portray what they think the mind of someone awful would be like.
by WillingPie6216
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Lolita comes to mind.
A Clockwork Orange
DEAREST by Peter Loughran. RATMAN’S NOTEBOOKS by Stephen Gilbert. AMERICAN PSYCHO by Brett Easton Ellis.
Billy Summer’s but he ends up good.
This might be a stretch but The Arrangement by Robyn Harding.
You by Caroline Kepnes
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
If you have a very strong stomach:
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
The Killer Inside Me; Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
No longer human
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers is from the POV of a female serial killer/sociopath. If you can handle gory.
The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston
Killler on the road by James Ellroy.
Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker (it’s an autobiography but thrilling as a novel)
Future by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Main character is part of a death squad. He kinda dislikes the work, and in the end goes through a weird character transformation. I highly recommend it.
Filth by Irving Welsh, Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Check out *The Zone of Interest* by Martin Amis. The protagonist is a Nazi officer who falls in love with the wife of the commandant of Auschwitz. In the course of the story, Amis of course having done impeccable research, which is combined with his masterful prose, the reader learns things which are not only new to the reader, but, without any intent on being gratuitous and remaining strictly accurate, expose some of the more horrifying aspects of the Holocaust that few people know of.
The *You* series by Caroline Kepnes is great.
*This Sweet Sickness* by Patricia Highsmith.
I am saving this for the future as I, too, wish to read books like op described