Ten Great Books with Unreliable Narrators

by Jamie Killen

Enjoy having serious doubts about whether your narrator is being totally honest with you? Then check out these books with untrustworthy POV characters. Some are lying, some are insane, and some just don’t really know what’s going on:

1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

2. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann

3. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

4. What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

6. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

7. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

8. Number9Dream by David Mitchell

9. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

10. The Appeal by Janice Hallett