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On the Island by Tracey Garvis GravesJustified Temptation by Erin LockwoodUnseen Messages by Pepper WintersSurviving Raine by Shay SavageUncharted by Tracey Garvis Graves
Best Stranded on Deserted Island
77 books — 83 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'NeillThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrySailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Lonely
313 books — 26 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanCirce by Madeline MillerWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Socially Isolated Main Characters
81 books — 22 voters
The Thirteen Threads by Alyona RozenblatHomecoming by Cynthia VoigtFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. KonigsburgWhile Mrs. Coverlet Was Away by Mary NashHow I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Children's and Young Adult Books With Abandoned Children Living Alone
93 books — 18 voters

The Gamble by Kristen AshleyJust Like Animals by Hettie IversThe Simple Wild by K.A. TuckerHow to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly HarperThe Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
Romance in remote location
22 books — 16 voters
Quiet by Susan CainWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauIntroverted Me by Kevin MartzSolitude by Anthony StorrThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I want to be alone
45 books — 16 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly BlackThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Body Electric by Beth RevisDon't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Best Teen Standalone Novels
46 books — 14 voters
Anxiety by Danny WinterThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice GallowaySpider by Patrick McGrathIsland Boys Don't Cry by Aurora Gayle
The Dissociated Voice
18 books — 12 voters

Shades of Remorse by Charlie HudsonSmall Town Lies by Charlie HudsonSmall Town Quilting Blues by Charlie HudsonFalse Front by Charlie HudsonShades of Gold by Charlie Hudson
Characters Waking Up Alone and Confused in Fiction
114 books — 12 voters
The Boy I Am by K.L. KettleThe Host by Stephenie MeyerThe Seventh Hour by Tracey WardThe Sixth Seal by Mary WesleyBrother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Standalone Dystopian YA (Post-apocalyptic/Dystopia/Apocalypse)
18 books — 11 voters

One Day at a Time 2017 by Hollie Bell-SchinzingJump by Marianne AckermanDead Focused and Hocus Pocused by Marcy BlesyThe Empty Nest Blueprint by Anthony DamaschinoAlice Alone by Amanda Brookfield
Empty Nest
34 books — 9 voters
Queen of Quarantine by Caroline PeckhamKings of Quarantine by Caroline PeckhamAlien Quarantine Rescue by Robin LovettThe Quarantine Princess Diaries by Meg CabotHer Quarantined Cowboy by Kathy Fawcett
Novels with "Quarantine" in the Title
27 books — 9 voters

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerBeware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn MeyerThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryInnocent Traitor by Alison Weir
All alone
144 books — 8 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

The Martian by Andy WeirCirce by Madeline MillerWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. TaylorPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Self-Suffiction
22 books — 5 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettI Like Being Alone by Betty Ren WrightThe Cheerful Quiet by Betty HorvathHow It All Ends by Emma HunsingerThe Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Solitude in Children's Fiction
48 books — 5 voters

Great Expectations by Charles DickensA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHow the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
Hermits, Misanthropes, Shut-Ins and Recluses in Fiction
42 books — 5 voters
The Cardboard Crown by Clyde Robert BullaA Dog So Small by Philippa PearceJuliet's Story by William TrevorThe Invisible Boy by Trudy LudwigIt's MY Tree by Olivier Tallec
Loneliness in Children's Fiction
69 books — 3 voters

The Crash by Skye WarrenWreckage by K.G. ReussSwept Away by Beth O'LearyVenom Island by Lexi C. Foss
Crashed or stranded in Romance books.
4 books — 3 voters
The Shining by Stephen KingWhere Echoes Die by Courtney GouldThe Wrathful Traveller by Rhuddem GwelinStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinWhat the Woods Took by Courtney Gould
Isolation, Seclusion and Solitude in Speculative Fiction
69 books — 3 voters

Solitude by Michael HarrisThe Lonely City by Olivia Laing
Hypervigilance/Solitude
2 books — 1 voter

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