I’m not sure if I’m looking for some where you don’t know they are unreliable until the end and it changes so much context…
Or ones where we always know they are, and it’s a bit weird/cringe
I’m wanting to try writing one, but I feel like I should find some examples first.
by _Kendii_
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This might work for you, it’s what popped into my head…
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Annihilation
On a more literary front there is Lolita or Pale Fire by Nabokov or The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
For more mystery there is The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward or We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Practically any Gene Wolfe book with Book of the New Sun being tops if your willing to tackle very difficult, but potentially rewarding SciFi/Fantasy. A shorter and easier entry point is The Fifth Head of Cerberus.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Good Son by Jeong You-Jeong
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Planetfall, if you like science fiction.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
most of Nabokov’s novels (Lolita and Pale Fire, especially), and Book of the new sun.
Ooh, my favorite book ever – The Lesser Dead. It’s narrated by a vampire who admits in the very first pages that he is an unreliable narrator; he even uses the term directly. But whether he was telling the truth about that is a matter of some debate as you read. Ultimately, you reach a point near the end where he advises you to stop reading. If you continue on, you learn whether and how he was unreliable, or not. For full effect, I recommend the audiobook version. It’s read, brilliantly, by the author.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye