Books With Unreliable Narrators

While you can't believe everything you hear (or read), we think you'll enjoy these titles featuring unreliable narrators. You can trust us.....or can you?

Updated November 22, 2024
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Alias Grace
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth.
The push : a novel
Audrain, Ashley
Paper Book
Room : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
Now a major Oscar-winning film starring Brie Larson Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. Room...
Rock paper scissors
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Sometimes I Lie'Not just fiendish but positively Feeneyish - dark, ingenious and very clever' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. An anniversary theyâe(tm...
The woman in the window
Finn, A. J.
Paper Book
Now a major film on Netflix starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Julianne MooreOVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD!THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER âe~Astounding. Thrilling. Amazingâe(tm) Gillian Flynn âe~One of those rare books that really is unputdownableâe(tm) Stephen King ...
Gone girl
Flynn, Gillian
Paper Book
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE BOOK THAT DEFINES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds...
The girl on the train
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER 'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the...
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Honeyman, Gail
Paper Book
Over 2.5 million copies sold'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes'Heartwrenching and wonderful' Nina StibbeWinner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the Book of the YearOne of the Sunday Times' 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years Eleanor...
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley
Ebook
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most...
The turn of the screw
James, Henry
Paper Book
The Turn of the Screw is an intense psychological tale of terror. It begins in an old house on Christmas Eve. It is the story of a Governess who comes to live with and take care of two young children. The Governess loves her new position in charge of the young children, however she is soon disturbed...
None of this is true : a novel
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
You : a novel
Kepnes, Caroline
Paper Book
Gone Girl meetsFatal Attractionin Caroline Kepnes' You, a chilling account of the twisted psychology behind unrelenting passion. When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works he is instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: tough, razor...
Yellowface : a novel
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
The Number One Global Sensation*Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year**Amazon Book of the Year**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards* âe~Addictiveâe(tm) Grazia âe~Hugely entertainingâe(tm) Observer âe~Provocativeâe...
Shutter Island
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears...
We were liars
Lockhart, E.
Ebook
THE TIKTOK PHENOMENON AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ** SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME! ** A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four...
Life of Pi : a novel
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee Winner of the Booker Prize
The silent patient
Michaelides, Alex
Paper Book
- THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION - Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major film.
Fight Club
Palahniuk, Chuck.
Paper Book
'Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton Ellis Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across America, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other. Then they go back to...
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....
I'm thinking of ending things
Reid, Iain
Ebook
Now an award-winning Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. 'This is a deliciously frightening novel, Reid has a light, idiosyncratic touch but never lets his vice-like grip of suspense slacken for a second. Once finished, you will be hard pressed not to start the whole...
The catcher in the rye
Salinger, J. D.
Paper Book
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth and has influenced countless coming-of-age stories since. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up,...
We need to talk about Kevin
Shriver, Lionel.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son...
The last house on Needless Street
Ward, Catriona
Paper Book
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It's so good you'll read it twice...

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