Snapshot: Novels with Unreliable Narrators

If any of you are particularly attracted to the literary idea of the unreliable narrator, some splendid American novels make use of one. Here are three:

One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
"Chief" Bromden, a patient at a mental hospital, suffers from schizophrenia, and his telling of the events often includes things such as people growing or shrinking, walls oozing with slime, or the orderlies kidnapping and "curing" Santa Claus.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Charlie Gordon, the narrator in Daniel Keyes' epistolary novel, Flowers for Algernon is mentally retarded at the start of the novel but develops greater intelligence and understanding as the novel progresses.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, in which a young woman experiences ghostly hauntings summoned by supernaturally-powered children, can be interpreted as a novel of unreliable narration, but whether or not the narrator is actually delusional is left ambiguous. The young woman, a governess, tells stories of children being "threatened by the ghost of Quint," with the possible goal of misleading the reader into becoming a "victim of the governess's unreliable narration."