Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
1847
Books with the “Unreliable Narrator” trope
The person telling the story hides the truth, is biased, or cannot be trusted about what is really happening.
Characters and archetypes · Unreliable Narrator
Books with this trope
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
2017
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
2012
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
2007
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1985
The Shining
Stephen King
1977
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
1938
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
1992
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
2019
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
1980
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood
2005
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
1868
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
1926
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
2015
The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn
2018
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson
2011
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
2003
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
2003
The Collector
John Fowles
1963
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
1996
In the Woods
Tana French
2007
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
1991
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney
2017
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
1898
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
1959
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
1962
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield
2006
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
2009
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
2017
The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware
2019
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
1899
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
2001
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
2017
Bunny
Mona Awad
2019
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
2012
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1892
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
1895
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
2000
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
2015
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
1989
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson
2022
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
2003
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
1984
Verity
Colleen Hoover
2018
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
2022
The Last Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine
2017
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney
2021
The Push
Ashley Audrain
2021
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
2022
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
2021
My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing
2019
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
2014
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
1848
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
1962
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
1996
The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen
2012
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
1951
Final Girls
Riley Sager
2017
The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson
2015
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
2016
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
2021
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
2016
The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins
2021
Black-Eyed Susans
Julia Heaberlin
2015
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg
1824
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Sympathetic Monster
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