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Alienation Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,403,224 ratings — published 1915
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,867,129 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,378,596 ratings — published 1942
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.94 — 247,281 ratings — published 1948
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,779 ratings — published 1926
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,283 ratings — published 1959
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.67 — 367,705 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.05 — 629,325 ratings — published 1999
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.94 — 390,875 ratings — published 1925
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,345 ratings — published 1922
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.17 — 224,058 ratings — published 1864
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,090 ratings — published 2000
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,204,375 ratings — published 1963
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,066,387 ratings — published 1866
The Metamorphosis (Graphic Novel Adaptation)
by (shelved 8 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,910 ratings — published 2004
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.60 — 98,285 ratings — published 2018
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,093 ratings — published 1994
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.60 — 554,779 ratings — published 2018
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.65 — 367,796 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,277 ratings — published 2016
Amerika (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.74 — 34,097 ratings — published 1927
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,061,249 ratings — published 1932
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,320 ratings — published 1947
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.68 — 49,500 ratings — published 2011
Lost & Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,888 ratings — published 2011
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.20 — 777,267 ratings — published 1962
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,902 ratings — published 1940
The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.31 — 245 ratings — published 2014
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.08 — 327,170 ratings — published 1848
The Flowers of Buffoonery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,744 ratings — published 1935
Life Ceremony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.74 — 27,160 ratings — published 2019
Challenging Parental Alienation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.94 — 150,655 ratings — published 2009
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.78 — 86,732 ratings — published 2009
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.51 — 199,265 ratings — published 2016
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.02 — 311,715 ratings — published 1947
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,356 ratings — published 1938
The Invisible Man (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.63 — 215,921 ratings — published 1897
Marx's Theory of Alienation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.32 — 80 ratings — published 1973
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.13 — 213,475 ratings — published 1927
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,395,734 ratings — published 1949
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.18 — 639,652 ratings — published 1996
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,862,829 ratings — published 1818
American Born Chinese (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.88 — 101,278 ratings — published 2006
The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,435 ratings — published 1995
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 4.06 — 37,377 ratings — published 1964
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,221 ratings — published 1998
Whatever (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.57 — 21,124 ratings — published 1994
Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.70 — 34,026 ratings — published 2007
Under the Skin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alienation)
avg rating 3.75 — 29,308 ratings — published 2000
“A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small acts of kindness and connection. His conclusion: "To be benevolent rather than malevolent is probably a true feature of our species." Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. Numerous studies of disaster response around the globe have shown that social support is the most powerful protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress and trauma.
Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers - but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers - but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
