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)
The Guilty Ones by Kyla StoneMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellRedeemers by Edward  McBrideWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverVerity by Colleen Hoover
Books That Gave Me Trust Issues
31 books — 29 voters
How to Kill Friends and Eviscerate People by Tim PaggiVictorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Unhinged narrator
2 books — 1 voter

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

Thomas Ligotti
I have only recorded what everyone is saying (though they may not know they are saying it), and sometimes what they have seen (though they may not know they have seen it).
Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

Olivia Sudjic
I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place. ...more
Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

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