Books that follow morally grey/dark characters.

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Books that follow morally grey/dark characters.

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In my experience, books usually clearly demarcate good and evil. We usually tend to follow protagonists which are either good from the start or turn into a good person by the end of the series/novel. However, the real world definitely doesn't function like that. Almost everyone has some good and some evil within them.

I personally only know about Game of Thrones and Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. What about you? What was one such book you read that reflected this moral greyness/evilness among the protagonist(s) and would recommend to everyone who asks?
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There are literally so many books that sport morally dark and grey characters and some of them pull it off really nicley.
The ones I can think of are:
1. Six of crows (Kaz Brekker)
2. Shadow and Bone (Darkling)
3. A Darker shade of magic (Lila bard)
I know others but this is all I can think of right now.
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I decided to do a quick look at the meaning of the word and I would like to say that I have an author that does it in a number of his books. Thought I am would wrong. Brandon Sanderson is an author of several books that comes close to mind.
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Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground might work. It's not a long book about a man at war, I think, with himself. Or, a man who imagines or is portraying someone who is at war with his own "superior" self with a conscience.
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