Unreliable Narrators


Gone Girl
The Girl on the Train
Lolita
We Were Liars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Secret History
The Catcher in the Rye
The Silent Patient
Wuthering Heights
American Psycho
Atonement
The Great Gatsby
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Life of Pi
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerJames Joyce's Ulysses by Harold BloomDune by Frank HerbertInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Books that Make Readers Work
35 books — 14 voters
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinTwilight by Stephenie MeyerGothic Revival by Michael MullinSworn to the Shadow God by Ruby DixonThe Lake by Tananarive Due
Expert Liars
19 books — 7 voters

Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Kind Worth Killing by Peter  SwansonSharp Objects by Gillian FlynnBig Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Girl on the Train Read A Likes
185 books — 238 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Books with Unreliable Narrators
501 books — 490 voters

Stephen Graham Jones
People always talk about unreli­able narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that’s a redundant term. I think ‘narrator’ inheres unreliability, because even if we don’t mean to lie, we’re still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that’s a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.
Stephen Graham Jones

Iain M. Banks
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get. ...more
Iain M. Banks, Transition

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