Trust No One: Unreliable Narrators vs. Unreliable Secondary Characters ‹ CrimeReads

I first listened to The Girl on the Train and was immediately drawn in by the weaving stories of several different main points of view. It's Rachel, though, who's telling a story we simply can't be expected to believe. Her drinking means that she can't really trust her memories (or rather, those big blank spots in them) and therefore, neither can we. Similarly, the heroine of The Woman in the Window struggles with alcohol and drug abuse, which makes the story we see through her eyes a patchwork of assumptions.

Other popular books with unreliable narrators rely on mental illness, or the passage of time, or amnesia, or other explanations for why the person telling us this story shouldn't be believed.