The Greatest Books of All Time on Isolation

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17162 The Islanders Christopher Priest 2011 British English
17162 The Moment Of Eclipse Brian Aldiss 1970 British English
17162 One Conrad Williams 2009 British English
17162 No One Gets Out Alive Adam Nevill 2014 British English
17162 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
17074 The Chocolate War Robert Cormier 1974 American English
17134 Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry 1940 American English
17162 Abel's Island William Steig 1976 American English
17162 The Emperor's Last Island Julia Blackburn 1991 British English
17162 Conversations With Glenn Gould Jonathan Cott 1983 Canadian English
17162 Voices Of The Old Sea Norman Lewis 1984 British English
17162 A Wilderness Station Alice Munro 1996 American English
17162 Dakota Kathleen Norris 1993 American English
17162 Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith 1989 American English
17162 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17162 Holy Land D. J. Waldie 1996 American English
17162 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17162 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17162 The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald 1978 British English
17162 Black Sun Geoffrey Wolff 1976 American English
17162 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17162 The Epidemic Hani al-Raheb 1981 Syrian Unknown
17162 The Woman And The Rose Mohamed Zafzaf 1986 Moroccan Arabic
17162 Nobody's Angel Thomas McGuane 1981 American English
17162 Under The Dome Stephen King 2009 American English
17162 Wool Omnibus Hugh Howey 2012 American English
17162 The A26 Pascal Garnier 1999 French French
17162 City Of Ash And Red Hye-Young Pyun 2010 Korean Korean
17075 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17162 Life On Mars Tracy K. Smith 2011 American English
17162 The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 1982 German German
17162 The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel 2017 American English
17162 Gone Michael Grant 2008 American English
17162 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17162 After Dark Haruki Murakami 2004 Japanese Japanese
17162 Paradise Rot Jenny Hval 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17162 The Dog Stars Peter Heller 2012 American English
17162 What Should Be Wild Julia Fine 2018 American English
17162 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17162 The Flicker Of Old Dreams Susan Henderson 2018 American English
17162 Come West And See Maxim Loskutoff 2018 American English
17162 Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi 2011 American English
17162 The Ark Sakura Kobo Abé 1984 Japanese Japanese
17162 What Is All This? Stephen Dixon 2010 American English
17162 Ankomst Gøhril Gabrielsen 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 The Bird Tribunal Agnes Ravatn 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 Zero Gine Cornelia Pedersen 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 Ramifications Daniel Saldaña París 2018 Mexican Spanish
17162 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
17162 Hansen’s Children Ognjen Spahić 2004 Montenegrin Montenegrin
17162 Dry Season Gabriela Babnik 2012 Unknown Slovene
17162 The Russian Window Dragan Velikić 2007 Unknown Serbian
17162 Border State Tõnu Õnnepalu 1993 Estonian Estonian
17162 The Saviour Of Lasnamäe Mari Saat 2009 Estonian Estonian
17162 Tūla Jurgis Kunčinas 1993 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17162 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17162 Bluebeard’s First Wife Ha Seong-nan 2002 Korean Korean
17162 The Galaxy, And The Ground Within Becky Chambers 2021 American English
17162 Gallant V. E. Schwab 2022 American English
17162 Messenger Lois Lowry 2004 American English
17162 Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption Stephen King 1982 American English
16857 The Silent Cry Kenzaburō Ōe 1967 Japanese Japanese
17162 Silo 1 Hugh Howey 2012 American English
17061 The Great Wall Of China Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
17162 Unravel Me Tahereh Mafi 2013 American English
17162 The Hike Drew Magary 2016 American English
17162 A Boy And A Bear In A Boat Dave Shelton 2012 British English
17162 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
17162 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17162 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
17021 Nightfall And Other Stories Isaac Asimov 1969 American English
17162 The Party At No. 5 Shelley Smith 1964 Unknown English
17162 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17162 The Long Shadow Celia Fremlin 1975 British English
17162 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17162 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17162 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17162 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17162 All The Names They Used For God Anjali Sachdeva 2018 American English
16977 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17162 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
17162 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17162 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17162 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17162 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17162 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17162 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17162 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17162 Winter Count Barry Lopez 1981 American English
16981 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
17042 Under The Autumn Star Knut Hamsun 1906 Norwegian Norwegian
17079 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 The Extinction Of Experience Christine Rosen 2004 Unknown English
17162 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
16849 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
17162 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17162 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
16799 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
17162 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17162 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
16962 The Gentle Spirit Fyodor Dostoevsky 1876 Russian Russian
17162 A Shining Jon Fosse Unknown Norwegian
17162 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17162 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
17162 A History Of Wild Places Shea Ernshaw 2021 American English
17162 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
16804 The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
17162 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17162 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17162 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17162 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17162 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17162 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17162 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17162 The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood 2015 British English
17162 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17162 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17162 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17162 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English