Books With Unreliable Narrators

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — When Amy Dunne disappears, her husband becomes the prime suspect, but both stories hide more than a few devastating secrets.

2. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart — On a private island, a wealthy family’s perfect summer unravels as a teenage girl pieces together the truth about a past she can’t fully remember—and the secret no one will discuss.

3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins — A woman who drinks too much, remembers too little, and fixates on strangers becomes entangled in a missing person case.

4. Verity by Colleen Hoover — A struggling writer is hired to finish a bestselling author’s series. However, while staying in the author’s home, she discovers a hidden manuscript filled with disturbing confessions.

5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier — A young bride is haunted by the memory of her husband’s glamorous first wife.

6. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith — A charming con artist inserts himself into a wealthy man’s life—and slowly takes it over.

7. Room by Emma Donoghue — Told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy raised in captivity, this novel distorts reality through the innocent (and limited) lens of childhood.

8. Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent — A seemingly perfect housewife insists her crime was justified.