idk i love stories with unreliable narrators because i feel like there’s so much to be derived from the subject material. I’m also kind of biased towards ones that are unreliable from insanity or just grandiose in narration (idk i guess leaning on the sort of asshole-y side), but I still enjoy unreliability from characters that are just young or inexperienced as well! 🙂
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“Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov uses the framing device of annotating a poem. You read the poem, then read the annotations, and it becomes increasingly clear that the narrator has grandiose delusions about his relationship to the poet (and other things)
Nabokov has a lot of unreliable narrators.
Hanya Yanagihara’s *The People in the Trees* did this really well.
THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James. THE SNAKE PIT by Mary Jane Ward. WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy.
Alias Grace
The Haunting of Hill House
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Spider by Patrick McGrath
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. The first installment is All Systems Red, and it’s a self-contained story, but the rest of the series is great too. All narrated by Murderbot, whose unreliability isn’t immediately apparent, which just makes it more amusing when the hints appear, IMHO.
Agota Kristof’s trilogy and the Samuel Beckett Trilogy.