Zoe Heller 2003
- What it is
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A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · pitch-black comedy
- Genre
- Literary Crime
- Feels
- Morally grey Unsettling Wry Dark Tense
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A reader shelved it with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
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It gets under your skin, but in a classic
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It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
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No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
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School setting and unreliable narrator
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In common with yours: school setting · comedy with teeth
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Only nobody is entirely good
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Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
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Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
We Need to Talk about Kevin
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It gets under your skin · it tells it straight
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941
Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly 1895
Nobody is entirely good · you can't put it down
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · a big story that sweeps you along
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It gets under your skin · a place nobody can leave
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Nobody is entirely good · it tells it straight
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It gets under your skin · it's hiding a secret
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Pitch-black comedy · you can't put it down
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Nobody is entirely good · fierce and defiant
Presumed Innocent
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Grace Metalious 1900
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it stays with you
Verity
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Nobody is entirely good, but in a thriller
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Only school setting
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In common with yours: school setting · a love story that makes you laugh
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Only unreliable narrator
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Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
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Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
Sharp Objects
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It gets under your skin · it tells it with no filter
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Grouped with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
The Sense of an Ending
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Grouped with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
The butcher boy
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It stirs you up inside · it leaves you shaken
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it tells it straight
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger 2004
Like yours: unreliable narrator · comforting, like coming home
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It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Pitch-black comedy · outlaws and guns in the West
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It stirs you up inside · funny, and it bites
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You need to know how it ends · one more chapter, then another
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Unsettling from the first page, but in a classic
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