Ten top unreliable narrators

Sarah Pinborough is an award-winning YA and adult thriller, fantasy and horror novelist and screenwriter. One of her top ten unreliable narrators, as shared at the Guardian:

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Unreliable narrators go hand in hand with plot twists and never so much as here. When the unnamed, insomniac narrator meets the enigmatic Tyler Durden, the two men start an underground boxing club for men who feel they want to be defined by more than their jobs and pay grades. This becomes Project Mayhem, an army with the aim of bringing the whole system down. A punch of a twist – excuse the pun – reveals both characters to be completely unreliable.

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