Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
The Light Between Oceans
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Metamorphosis
The Martian
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
These Silent Woods
Lord of the Flies
Dead of Winter
Near the Bone
The Troop
The Shuddering
I Who Have Never Known Men
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
26 books — 14 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
48 books — 21 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Isolated Locations
238 books — 27 voters


Bret Easton Ellis
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the coupl ...more
Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminar ...more
Robert Frost, West-Running Brook

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