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
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Yellowface
Sometimes I Lie
Fight Club
Piranesi
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Sebastian Barry
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Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

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qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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