Looking for protagonists who are not unreliable narrators coz they murdered/committed a crime and wants to hoodwink readers
Looking for books where the protagonist is full of grandiosity and his inner monologue is full of how amazing remarkable he is. But his lived reality is something very different.
Like say he works minimum wage job. But his inner voice is completely supercilious and full of hubris and how much of a genius he is, how brilliant he is
by Catch22life
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The first half of *The Collector,* by John Fowles, would like you to believe this is a love story. The second half is…not.
Kingkiller chronicles, the protagonist is very much an unreliable narrator. The author and the long hiatus aside, the two main books published are incredible in my opinion, but they tend to be hit-or-miss (i suspect partly because many don’t realize the protagonist is an unreliable narrator)
i don’t feel like that would under the ‘unreliable narrator’ category, you seem to be looking for delusion maybe?
i feel like for an unreliable narrator to be that, you need to actually be inserted in and throughout the story from their own perspective and only by the end or wherever, realise that their rendition was false and not to be trusted
in that sense, i feel like the ‘you’ series by caroline kepnes kinda fits what you’re looking for, despite it having to do with murders. the main char isn’t trying to hoodwink you into thinking he’s not a killer, that isn’t a secret, but what he does is he sees himself as better and considers his crimes to be ‘justified’ and even necessary while you’re objectively (or should be) horrified
American Psycho