Unreliable Narrators

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

Updated June 5, 2023
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Allegedly : a novel
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Audiobook
Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home. Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that...
Behind her eyes
Pinborough, Sarah
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The instantNew York Times and #1 international bestseller."You should readBehind Her Eyes...It's bloody brilliant."--Stephen King "An eerie thriller...Pinborough keeps us guessing about just...
The bell jar
Plath, Sylvia
Paper Book
'A modern classic.' Guardian 'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates Sylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century....
Black leopard, red wolf
James, Marlon
Paper Book
One of TIME's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize  Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street...
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about...
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
Koch, Herman
Paper Book
A summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food, the conversation remains a gentle hum. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said. And with every forced smile the knives are being sharpened.
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the...
Elizabeth is missing
Healey, Emma
Paper Book
NOW A BBC ONE MOVIE STARRING GLENDA JACKSON HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLUES? In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging--an elderly woman...
Fleishman is in trouble
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the National Book AwardLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie MedalLonglisted for the ABIA Awards 2020Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle/John Leonard Award for Best First BookTHE SUNDAY...
The girl on the train
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect...
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...
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...
In a dark, dark wood
Ware, Ruth.
Paper Book
*AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and THE LYING GAME *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 * An Entertainment...
I let you go
Mackintosh, Clare
Paper Book
Lose yourself in the sensational debut I Let You Go - the Sunday Times bestseller, No.1 ebook phenomenon and Richard & Judy Book Club pick. A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she? In a...
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Paper Book
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's...
More happy than not
Silvera, Adam
Paper Book
In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling-debut--also called "mandatory reading" and selected as an Editors' Choice by the New York Times--Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx. In the months after...
The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
Think you know whodunnit? Think again. Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself. But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really...
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,...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...
The secret history
Tartt, Donna
Paper Book
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at...
Sometimes I lie
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
* SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AS AMBER REYNOLDS * 'Marvellous' A. J. Finn 'A bold and original voice' Clare Mackintosh 'A brilliant thriller' Ali Land My name is Amber...
The Twyford code
Hallett, Janice
Paper Book
The dazzling new bestseller from the author of The Appeal.
We have always lived in the castle
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum ... the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go' Donna Tartt Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian...
We were liars
Lockhart, E.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family.
The woman in cabin 10
Ware, Ruth
Paper Book
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES, STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY* 'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Stylist A PASSENGER IS MISSING...BUT WAS SHE EVER ON BOARD AT ALL? This was...
The woman in the library a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book

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