Vladimir Nabokov 1777
- What it is
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A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · nobody is entirely good
- Genre
- Literary Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Lolita
Coming from Lolita? Start with Notes on a Scandal, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Trust. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller 2003
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson 1962
Like yours: unreliable narrator · it gets under your skin
Trust
Hernán Díaz 2022
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes 2011
Grouped with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad 1985
No clean hands here · it tells it with no filter
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton 1905
No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis 1991
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it with no filter
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941
Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · you'll keep turning it over for days
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
No clean hands here · it tells it with no filter
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · a farewell that moves you
Children of light
Robert Stone 1986
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke 2020
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
The go-between
L. P. Hartley 1953
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · comforting, like coming home
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious 1900
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk 1996
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
22 books · Alike in just one
Only morally grey
The quiet American
Graham Greene 1955
Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
The great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2011
A love story that hurts · a love story that makes you laugh
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn 2011
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver 2003
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · it leaves you shaken
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel 2009
Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré 1964
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
The girl on the train
Paula Hawkins 2014
Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
the leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1995
Comforting, like coming home · sad, and in no hurry
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson 1997
It stays with you · a trial at the heart of the story
Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan 1954
Funny and sad at once · melancholic and unhurried
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
Saturday
Ian McEwan 2004
Melancholic and unhurried · you read it holding your breath
The age of innocence
Edith Wharton 1920
Love hurts sometimes · love and laughs in equal parts
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
A reader shelved it with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Traver 1958
No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy 1900
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it with no filter
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood 2005
Sad, and in no hurry · a mystery you want to solve
You
Caroline Kepnes 2014
A reader shelved it with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
6 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
The butcher boy
Patrick McCabe 1994
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · it leaves you shaken
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry 2008
In common with yours: unreliable narrator · it leaves you shaken
Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry 1995
It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
Under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1947
It stays with you · it tells it with no filter
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
It tells it with no filter · sharp and very funny
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It stays with you · one to read slowly
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