September 2019 Lunch Box Book Club

The Grafton Public Library presents…

“Trust No One: Twisty Titles with Unreliable Narrators”

Book	Author	Dewey Number	Description
We Have Always Lived In the Castle	Jackson, Shirley	FIC JAC	Unsettling novella narrated by a young woman acquitted of murder by the author of the well-known short story (made into a play) The Lottery.
Wuthering Heights	Bronte, Emily	FIC BRO	In this classic novel of tempestuous romance, is Nelly Dean relating a believable tale?
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Fowler, Karen Joy	FIC FOW	Rosemary wants the reader to meet her family, normal in many ways except for one important difference. A haunting novel.
Room	Donoghue, Emma	FIC DON	To five-year old Jack, the room is the world. Why?
The Sense of An Ending	Barnes, Julian	FIC BAR	Barnes earned the 2011 Booker prize for this novel—a whodunit of memory and morality.
Never Let Me Go	Ishiguro, Kazuo	FIC ISH	A private English boarding school with sheltered students, but what is the real purpose of the school?
The White Tiger	Adiga, Aravind	FIC ADI	Not only an unreliable narrator, an unlikeable narrator tells this complicated tale set in India. Not for the casual reader.
Life of Pi	Martel, Yann	FIC MAR	A boy, a tiger and the vast Pacific Ocean and a wide-ranging tale of a fantastic voyage.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Haddon, Mark	FIC HAD	An autistic boy tries to track down the person who killed a neighbor’s dog but uncovers a different crisis.
Alias Grace	Atwood, Margaret	FIC ATW	Atwood based this book on real life details of a famous murder in Canada—of an Irish housekeeper accused of murdering her employers.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Kesey, Ken	FIC KES	A story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, told by one of the patients—this became a classic of 1960’s literature.
The Secret History	Tartt, Donna	FIC TAR	Well before she published “The Goldfinch”, Tartt blew up the literary world with this tale.
Lolita	Nabokov, Vladimir	FIC NAB	In this classic, the narrator is the ultimate manipulator and seducer, extending his skills to his storytelling techniques. Will it work on you?
Atonement	McEwan, Ian	FIC MCE	From a manor house in 1935 England to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941, from WWII’s military hospitals to a family reunion in 1999, a young girl’s decision proves fateful.
In the Blood	Unger, Lisa	FIC UNG	A young woman whose life is filled with lies takes a babysitting job with a boy who may be her match in this thriller.
The Girl On the Train	Hawkins, Paula	FIC HAW	A woman goes to the police to report a shocking event she has witnessed in this thriller.
In a Dark, Dark, Wood	Ware, Ruth	FIC WAR	Ware’s thriller revolves around a character who must uncover secrets, reveal motives and revisit parts of herself she would rather leave in the past after a terrifying weekend.
Before I Go To Sleep	Watson, S.J.	FIC WAT	Christine loses her memories every time she goes to sleep and relies upon her husband to re-create her world each day. But is he truthful…and is she safe?
In The Woods	French, Tana	FIC FRE	This thriller revolves around a character with a horrific past and long-buried memories.
Shutter Island	Lehane, Dennis	FIC LEH	A creepy thriller where nothing is what is seems—set on an island that houses the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Gone Girl	Flynn, Gillian	FIC FLY	Marriage can be a real killer.

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From a manor house in 1935 England to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941, from WWII’s military hospitals to a family reunion in 1999, a young girl’s decision proves fateful.