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Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Books With Unreliable Narrators

"Whenever we encounter a first person narrator in a novel, we as readers know we're getting a character's version of the story rather than directly witnessing the events as they actually happened. S0 in a way, one could argue that every first-person narrator is an unreliable narrator, but some narrators are more trustworthy than others. A narrator is "unreliable" when we have reasons to doubt the versions of events he or she is presenting to us as factual in a story. Whether it be for reasons of mental instability or self-preservation, we know the narrator isn't disclosing everything to us, or isn't telling us the whole truth."
NOTE: There was actually 51 books in the Book Riot's list
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
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Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane)
Shutter Island (Dennis Lehane)
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Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
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Allegedly (Tiffany D. Jackson)
Allegedly (Tiffany D. Jackson)
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The People in the Trees (Hanya Yanagihara)
The People in the Trees (Hanya Yanagihara)
7
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
8
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
9
We Were Liars (E. Lockhart)
We Were Liars (E. Lockhart)
10
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
11
The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane)
The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane)
12
Elizabeth Is Missing (Emma Healey)
Elizabeth Is Missing (Emma Healey)
13
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
14
Fashionvictim (Amina Akhtar)
Fashionvictim (Amina Akhtar)
15
Our Kind of Cruelty (Araminta Hall)
Our Kind of Cruelty (Araminta Hall)
16
One Of Us Is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
One Of Us Is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
17
My Sunshine Away (M.O. Walsh)
My Sunshine Away (M.O. Walsh)
18
Room (Emma Donoghue)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
19
Hysteria (Megan Miranda)
Hysteria (Megan Miranda)
20
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
21
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
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Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
24
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
25
You (Caroline Kepnes)
You (Caroline Kepnes)
26
Charm & Strange (Stephanie Kuehn)
Charm & Strange (Stephanie Kuehn)
27
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
28
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] (Zoe Heller)
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] (Zoe Heller)
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The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
30
Liar (Justine Larbalestier)
Liar (Justine Larbalestier)
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Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
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The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
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Six Suspects
Six Suspects
34
In a Dark Dark Wood (Ruth Ware)
In a Dark Dark Wood (Ruth Ware)
35
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K Dick)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K Dick)
36
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
37
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
38
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
39
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Michelle Hodkin)
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Michelle Hodkin)
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