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
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
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteMidnight Cowboy by James Leo HerlihyAn Eye For Others by Tom  McDonoughCittà in fiamme by Garth Risk HallbergPunk Avenue by Phil Marcade
Rock Bottom in New York
26 books — 11 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 Fault in Our Stars by John GreenA List of Cages by Robin RoeEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth SteinA Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Just Rip My Heart Out
142 books — 73 voters

Augusten Burroughs
I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ...more
Augusten Burroughs, Dry

Haruki Murakami
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ...more
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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