Unreliable Narrator

Where the narrator's point of view is unreliable and cannot be trusted.

Quite often these narrators (the people telling the story) have issues, which affect their judgement/truth. Because of this, their credibility is seriously compromised.

For example they can be:
--heavily medicated
--suffering from a form of depression or traumatic stress related illness
--loss of memory though a head bump
--loss of memory through dementia
--lying to cover up something (often they are murderers)
--just plain old crazy

Types of unreliable narrators (from WIki):

Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immedi
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The Girl on the Train
Gone Girl
We Were Liars
The Silent Patient
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Lolita
The Woman in the Window
The Secret History
The Catcher in the Rye
Yellowface
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Sometimes I Lie
Piranesi
Fight Club
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Hidden Pictures by Jason RekulakThe Burning Girls by C.J. TudorMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Companion by Katie AlenderThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Why Won't You Believe me?
23 books — 4 voters

Big Swiss by Jen BeaginCome Closer by Sara GranHow Can I Help You by Laura SimsMy Husband by Maud VenturaRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Unhinged, More Or Less
68 books — 15 voters
Brett Always Wins by David D. D'AguannoBrett Aerobicizes by David D. D'AguannoSame Old Truths by Delora DennisThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Smug Bastards!
65 books — 76 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unique Narrators
402 books — 349 voters
Rich Little Liars by A.J.  CarterThe Divorce by Freida McFaddenThe Missing Ones by A.R. TorreOne of Them Is Lying by C.L. SwatmanThe Lake by S.K. Swaby
Thriller with Unreliable narrators
21 books — 1 voter

Oneal Walters
Trust is when I can close my eyes near you, and even my thoughts are at peace.
Oneal Walters

Iris Murdoch
Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.
Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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