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    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

    5 Comments

    1. AncientScratch1670 on

      You might like Jim Thompson. Try “A Swell Looking Babe” or “The Grifters.”

    2. Eric-of-All-Trades on

      “Loli”…oh, someone sympathetic.

      “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”, Agatha Christie

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