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Solitude Books
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Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,469 ratings — published 1854
Solitude: A Return to the Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,344 ratings — published 1988
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Audio CD)
by (shelved 43 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.91 — 88,921 ratings — published 2017
Journal of a Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,312 ratings — published 1973
Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,125 ratings — published 2003
A Book of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,436 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,671 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,186 ratings — published 1996
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,498 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,711,666 ratings — published 2018
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,362 ratings — published 1849
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,126,973 ratings — published 1967
Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,198 ratings — published 2017
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,540 ratings — published 2012
How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
by (shelved 17 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.32 — 2,107 ratings — published 2014
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,479 ratings — published 1956
The Art of Solitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,124 ratings — published
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.99 — 40,028 ratings — published 1963
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.27 — 127,867 ratings — published 1929
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.20 — 520,828 ratings — published 2020
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,399 ratings — published 1968
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.06 — 586,809 ratings — published 1995
Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.52 — 33 ratings — published 1994
At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.81 — 636 ratings — published 2020
An Unnecessary Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,405 ratings — published 2013
Hermits; The Insights of Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.77 — 161 ratings — published 1996
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.36 — 272,159 ratings — published 1965
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.07 — 877,705 ratings — published 2012
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.49 — 143 ratings — published 2002
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,342,748 ratings — published 1952
Gift from the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.13 — 57,260 ratings — published 1955
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,348 ratings — published 2005
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,910 ratings — published 1982
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,460,957 ratings — published 2017
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.59 — 591,175 ratings — published 2018
Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.47 — 2,937 ratings — published 2018
Silence: In the Age of Noise (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,967 ratings — published 2016
Leave Me Alone! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,475 ratings — published 2016
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.22 — 270,874 ratings — published 1929
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,729 ratings — published 1782
Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.49 — 569 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,460,492 ratings — published 1942
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,957 ratings — published 2012
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,388 ratings — published 1974
Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,912 ratings — published 2004
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.09 — 895,661 ratings — published 1922
On Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,181 ratings — published 1580
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 3.81 — 220,109 ratings — published 1927
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,044 ratings — published 1928
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as solitude)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,805 ratings — published 1927
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales












