Your favourite unreliable narrators?

[Blink1880]

I know it can over done - but I do love a book with an unreliable narrator and looking for some inspiration.

Not a novel but The Tell Tale Heart by Poe has my favourite unreliable narrator!

The Life of Pi which is beautiful - both novel and film

Nick Carraway in Gatsby

Girl on the Train

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Richard in The Beach by Alex Garland

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (have forgotten actual name of the narrator)

I have realised that every single one mentioned here that I’ve already read is a book that I’ve enjoyed (well not sure I can’t say I “enjoyed Lolita - but still like it as a book) so am definitely making room on the kindle for all the recommendations that I haven’t read already

@napody And that's the power of the book!

Thinking more about this, Pale Fire, Pnin and Sebastian Knight all have unreliable narrators/frames too. Are any of Nabokov's narrators reliable? Maybe in his Russian stuff?

Adding Francis Spufford, Golden Hill

Faraday in The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Surely all narrators are unreliable to a greater or lesser extent? There are those who are deliberately lying to us, those who are lying to themselves but think they are being honest to us, those who are mostly honest but occasionally not, or those who know less than we do so tell us more information that they themselves are aware of.

The Woman in White has every kind of narrator in it and is a complete joy.

Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. As soon as I finished it I wanted to read it again through new eyes knowing the full picture.

Brilliant suggestions on this thread!

Room by Emma Donaghue - narrated by a 5 year old so get an unusual (and less harrowing) perspective of what is happening.

It has to be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

Ali Smith - The Accidental

Not a novel as such, but I love all the narrators in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.