Three notable examples are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, where the narrator is Death, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where the narrator is the titular character but is describing the story of the main characters, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, where a young girl, having been killed, observes, from some post-mortem, extracorporeal viewpoint, her family's struggle to cope with her disappearance.

Some iconic examples of novels that begin in first-person POV are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

If you’ve read any of the first-person point of view examples listed below, you know better than anyone how the use of first-person perspective drew you in and made the story more important to you. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain