Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Metamorphosis
The Light Between Oceans
The Martian
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Dead of Winter
Wild Dark Shore
Near the Bone
Project Hail Mary
These Silent Woods
Piranesi
Moloka'i by Alan BrennertIn the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil W. White IIIMiracle at Carville by Betty   MartinThe Samurai's Garden by Gail TsukiyamaThe Colony by John Tayman
Leprosy/Hansen's Disease
27 books — 15 voters
The Girl with the Black and Blue Doll by Linda SummerseaEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Rain Woman by Charlotte Morrow1984 by George OrwellBurial Rites by Hannah Kent
Protagonists Who Have No Friends
7 books — 6 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensWild by Cheryl StrayedCress by Marissa Meyer
Lone Women
49 books — 22 voters

John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. ...more
John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

Bohumil Hrabal
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me. ...more
Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

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