#16: A book with an unreliable narrator.

[Tracey, Yorkshire White Rose.]

This is our August prompt and I think this one will be fun.

What is an unreliable narrator? A narrator whose credibility is compromised. You may not know this until the end of the book or it may be very obvious from the start. The narrator turns out to be a liar, or a criminal, immature, or a madman.

The Yellow Wallpaper would qualify. As would Rebecca and a book we are reading Wuthering Heights. We Have Always Lived in the Castle and several by Agatha Christie.

Can you think of others?

[Brenda]

I was looking at the list Goodreads has https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
and I saw Good Behaviour by Molly Keane and My Cousin Rachel another one by Daphne duMaurier. But those Goodreads lists are sometimes questionable.

[Michaela]

What immediately came to my mind was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, but you already mentioned her.

[Philina]

What about Wide Sargasso Sea?

I read it with another book group and another member said it was post-modern unreliable narrator when I described my feeling of floating through the story without knowing where, why and how.

Or The Bell Jar and The Secret History?

[Philina]

I've got so many more ideas, but they are all by male authors...