Five top novels featuring unreliable narrators

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers, poetry, and short fiction.

For The Daily Beast, she tagged her five favorite novels featuring unreliable narrators, including:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie

This is one of the all-time classic mystery stories, and the narrator is unreliable in a very interesting way: he does not directly lie to the reader; he simply omits certain crucial details. It makes for a crime novel with a brilliant twist that was way ahead of its time.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is on John Lanchester's five best list of mystery stories that don't get old, John Curran's top ten list of Agatha Christie mysteries, and Lisa Scottoline's top ten list of books about justice.

Also see: Kathryn Williams's list of fiction’s eight craziest unreliable narrators and Henry Sutton's top ten unreliable narrators.

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