Notable Works Featuring Unreliable Narrators
- Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
- Augusto Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme
- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- Peter Carey's Illywhacker
- Angela Carter's Wise Children
- Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- The works of Bret Easton Ellis, most prominently American Psycho
- William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
- Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
- Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
- Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
- James Lasdun's The Horned Man
- Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
- Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version
- J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
- The works of Gene Wolfe, most prominently The Book of the New Sun and The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
- William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon
- Robert Graves's I, Claudius
Films with an unreliable point-of-view (or points-of-view):
- Amarcord directed by Federico Fellini
- Big Fish directed by Tim Burton
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene
- Fight Club directed by David Fincher
- Hero (2002) directed by Zhang Yimou
- Memento directed by Christopher Nolan
- Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa
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