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
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
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

Heaven Official's Blessing by Mò Xiāng Tóng XiùAnxious People by Fredrik BackmanAlmond by Sohn Won-PyungA cabeça do santo by Socorro AcioliWhere the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
when you want to feel something
16 books — 1 voter
What the River Wants by Arthur  ByrdThe Martian by Andy WeirThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensProject Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Books About Loneliness and Isolation
297 books — 108 voters

Charles Bukowski
I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel lone ...more
Charles Bukowski

Edgar Allan Poe
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Edgar Allan Poe

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