Unreliable Narrators

Beware... you can't trust anything you read!

Updated June 7, 2023
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Unreliable Narrators

Beware... you can't trust anything you read!

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American war
El Akkad, Omar
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2017 An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second...
Before I go to sleep : a novel
Watson, S. J.
Paper Book
"Thebest debut novel I've ever read."--Tess Gerritsen,bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series "Anexceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished thelast page." --Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Moonlight Mile S. J. Watson...
Black leopard, red wolf
James, Marlon
Paper Book
"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this epic, internationally bestselling novel from Marlon...
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their first acquisition for...
Darling Rose Gold
Wrobel, Stephanie
Paper Book
THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER "If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold."--Washington Post "Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear...
The dinner : a novel
Koch, Herman
Paper Book
"A European Gone Girl." --The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal. It's...
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing...
Elizabeth is missing
Healey, Emma,
Paper Book
WINNER 2014 - Costa Book Awards--First Novel  An internationally heralded debut novel of extraordinary warmth, insight and humanity that will appeal to readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Still Alice: Elizabeth Is Missing is at once a...
Fleishman is in trouble : a novel
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST * "A masterpiece" (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Now an Emmy Award-nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and...
The girl on the train
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year and now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt.   Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes...
Gone girl : a novel
Flynn, Gillian
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "mercilessly entertaining" (Vanity Fair) instant classic "about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships" (Lev Grossman, Time "One of the Best Books of the Decade")...
The good sister
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunningly clever thriller made doubly suspenseful by not one, but two unreliable narrators." -- People Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel...
I'm thinking of ending things
Reid, Iain
Paper Book
You will be scared. But you won't know why... I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It's always there. Always. Jake and I have a real connection, a rare and intense attachment. What has it been...a month? I'm very attracted to...
In a dark, dark wood
Ware, Ruth.
Paper Book
AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE An NPR Best Book of the Year, 2015 A ShelfAwareness...
In the blood
Unger, Lisa
Paper Book
In the Blood is the Lisa Unger novel we've all been waiting for--and a return to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a bestseller around the world. SOMEONE KNOWS LANA'S SECRET--AND HE'S DYING TO TELL. LANA...
I let you go
Mackintosh, Clare
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016! The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl..."a finely crafted novel with a killer twist."...
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Paper Book
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. * With a new introduction by Claire Messud "The conjunction of a sense of...
The murder of Roger Ackroyd : a Hercule Poirot mystery
Christie, Agatha
Ebook
Voted the best crime novel ever written by the Crime Writers' Association: " B reathless reading from first to the unexpected last." -- The Observer   The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing...
Our kind of cruelty
Hall, Araminta
Paper Book
"A searing, chilling sliver of perfection . . . May well turn out to be the year's best thriller." --Charles Finch,The New York Times Book Review "This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. I loved it,...
Sometimes I lie
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
ALICE FEENEY'S NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Boldly plotted, tightly knotted--a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous." --AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window My...
The Twyford code : a novel
Hallett, Janice
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "[A] delicious premise and clever execution....with a bravura final section." --The New York Times The mysterious connection between a teacher's disappearance and an unsolved code in a children's book is explored in this new novel...
We were liars
Lockhart, E.
Paper Book
DON'T MISS THE ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES WE WERE LIARS--AND LOOK FOR E. LOCKHART'S NEW NOVEL IN THE WE WERE LIARS UNIVERSE, WE FELL APART, OUT NOW! #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The modern, sophisticated suspense novel...
The woman in cabin 10
Ware, Ruth
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick ...
The woman in the library : a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD NOMINEE * 2022 BOOKPAGE BEST MYSTERIES AND SUSPENSE * LIBRARY READS TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2022 * CRIME READS BEST NEW CRIME FICTION "Investigations are launched, fingers are pointed, potentially dangerous liaisons unfold and I was turning those...
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