The unreliable narrator puts us inside Teddy’s mind, making us experience his paranoia and confusion firsthand. Without this ...

The Murder of Roger AckroydBy 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 ...

The unreliable narrator is a technique as old at least as Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales,” and it’s lasted this long in fiction — Gillian Flynn built the “Gone Girl” blockbuster ...