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 Eleanor, 1939-
Paper Book
In this astonishing tour de force, Margaret Atwood takes the reader back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. In 1843, at the age of sixteen, servant girl Grace Marks was convicted for her part in the vicious murders of her...
The push.
Audrain, Ashley, 1982-
Paper Book
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Best First Crime Novel SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize "Utterly addictive." --Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train...
Room.
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Paper Book
WINNER! 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction SHORTLISTED for the 2010 Man Booker Prize SHORTLISTED for the 2010 Governor General's Award To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn....
Rock paper scissors
Feeney, Alice
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Feeney lives up to her reputation as the "queen of the twist"...This page-turner will keep you guessing." --Real Simple Think you know the person you married? Think again... Things have...
The woman in the window. [large print]
Finn, A. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss AJ Finn's eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY! "As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last...
Gone girl.
Flynn, Gillian, 1971-
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 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...
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. [kit]
Honeyman, Gail
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric...
The haunting.
Jackson, Shirley.
Paper Book
The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been...
The turn of the screw.
Mackenzie, Fiona (Businesswoman)
Paper Book
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting...
None of This Is True : A Novel.
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
You : a novel
Kepnes, Caroline
Paper Book
*Soon to be a Lifetime drama series* "Hypnotic and scary." --Stephen King "I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." --Lena Dunham From debut author Caroline Kepnes...
Yellowface : A Novel.
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Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she...
Shutter Island
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...
We were liars.
Lockhart, E.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents."--Wall Street Journal "A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will...
Life of Pi.
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE One boy. One boat. One tiger.    After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a...
The silent patient.
Michaelides, Alex, 1977-
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable--and Hollywood-bound--new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." --Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a...
Fight club.
Palahniuk, Chuck
Ebook
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense...
The bell jar.
Plath, Sylvia
Paper Book
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts,...
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...
The catcher in the rye.
Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010.
Paper Book
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really...
We need to talk about Kevin
Shriver, Lionel.
Paper Book
The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient. ...
The last house on Needless Street
Ward, Catriona
Paper Book
"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." --Stephen King Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel! A World Fantasy Award Finalist! An...

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