Unreliable narrator

Term coined by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).

List of works

These works employ unreliable narrators or narration:

• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
• Deborah Christian's Kar Kalim
• Alice Nunn's Illicit Passage
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Raccoona Sheldon's "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!"
• Gendibal in Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov; see Sura Novi
• The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters