Trust No One: Our Top Unreliable-Narrator Reads

Bold authors have been lying to their readers for years and somehow, we love every moment of it.

The unreliable narrator is a tricky narrative device for authors to handle, but when it’s used well, the results speak for themselves. Red Szell of AMI-Audio’s My Life in books joins Jacob Shymanski as they share their favourite examples of stories that only work because of their unreliable narrators.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov

Life of Pi — Yann Martel

The Turn of the Screw — Henry James

Frogs for Watchdogs — Seán Farrell

The Wasp Factory — Iain Banks

Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn

The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins

Pimp: The Story of My Life — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck)

Atonement — Ian McEwan

American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis

Gillespie and I — Jane Harris 

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