Circe
Madeline Miller
2018
Books with the “Outcast Hero” trope
A hero already rejected by society who lives on its edges and tries to find their place.
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Characters and archetypes · Outcast Hero
Books with this trope
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
2019
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
1980
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R. Donaldson
1977
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
1995
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
2021
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood
2005
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
1954
Anthem
Ayn Rand
1938
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
1946
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
1954
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
1927
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
2016
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
2003
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
1967
Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2003
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
2012
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
1999
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
1848
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
1891
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
1963
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2016
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
2017
The Way of Shadows
Brent Weeks
2008
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
2020
Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
1992
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley
2009
The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne
2015
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
2020
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton
2014
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2017
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
1831
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
1962
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
1838
The Mad Women's Ball
Victoria Mas
2019
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
2014
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
1934
The Wolf Den
Elodie Harper
2021
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
2021
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2018
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
1951
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid
2021
The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli
2017
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
1955
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