Loneliness


Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Fight Club
Stoner
White Nights
The Bell Jar
Thirteen Reasons Why
Norwegian Wood
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
Circe
A Little Life
A Man Called Ove
The Catcher in the Rye
Strangers by Taichi YamadaWhen Haru Was Here by Dustin ThaoYou've Reached Sam by Dustin ThaoThe Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price by Jennifer MaschariTin Man by Sarah Winman
"All of Us Strangers" Read-Alikes
31 books — 1 voter
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNo Longer Human by Osamu DazaiFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Alienation, isolation and melancholy
30 books — 7 voters

The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMisery by Stephen  King+Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenAnxiety by Danny Winter
Emotions in Titles
854 books — 41 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroStoner by John  WilliamsCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyJassy by Norah Lofts
loneliness bites
13 books — 5 voters

The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBunny by Mona AwadMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
lonely female hearts
30 books — 9 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best books about Solitude (fiction)
94 books — 86 voters

Arthur C. Clarke
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke

Jonathan Safran Foer
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. ...more
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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