Hello!
I've recently found that I really enjoy reading books with unreliable narrator. I love books where the narrator firmly believes that their beliefs and actions are perfectly reasonable and true and it's the others/the world that is just wrong/nonsensical, even though we as the reader, can clearly tell that it's the other way around. Or, maybe the narrator thinks something wrong/scary/paranormal is going on and maybe that's really happening or maybe the world is normal and the narrator is having a mental break. Maybe both? (kind of like Tales from the Gas Station series).
Ideally the unreliable narrator would be someone likable or sympathetic. For example, I really enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine but not so much A Confederacy of Dunces. And, I know a lot of people consider Kvothe from The Name of the Wind as an unreliable narrator but I think that's more embellishment/boasting than being unreliable.
While a twist like Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is fun, it's not required for enjoyment.
I read and appreciate all genres.
Thank you in advance for any recommendations you might give!
by Anxious-Fun8829
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You might like Jim Thompson. Try “A Swell Looking Babe” or “The Grifters.”
“Loli”…oh, someone sympathetic.
“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”, Agatha Christie
Spider by Patrick McGrath
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Nabokov Pale Fire