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
17117 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
17028 The Chocolate War Robert Cormier 1974 American English
17090 Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry 1940 American English
17117 Abel's Island William Steig 1976 American English
17117 The Emperor's Last Island Julia Blackburn 1991 British English
17117 Conversations With Glenn Gould Jonathan Cott 1983 Canadian English
17117 Voices Of The Old Sea Norman Lewis 1984 British English
17117 A Wilderness Station Alice Munro 1996 American English
17117 Dakota Kathleen Norris 1993 American English
17117 Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith 1989 American English
17117 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17117 Holy Land D. J. Waldie 1996 American English
17117 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17117 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17117 The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald 1978 British English
17117 Black Sun Geoffrey Wolff 1976 American English
17117 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17117 The Epidemic Hani al-Raheb 1981 Syrian Unknown
17117 The Woman And The Rose Mohamed Zafzaf 1986 Moroccan Arabic
17117 Nobody's Angel Thomas McGuane 1981 American English
17117 Under The Dome Stephen King 2009 American English
17117 Wool Omnibus Hugh Howey 2012 American English
17117 The A26 Pascal Garnier 1999 French French
17117 City Of Ash And Red Hye-Young Pyun 2010 Korean Korean
17017 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17117 Life On Mars Tracy K. Smith 2011 American English
17117 The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 1982 German German
17117 The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel 2017 American English
17117 Gone Michael Grant 2008 American English
17117 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17117 After Dark Haruki Murakami 2004 Japanese Japanese
17117 Paradise Rot Jenny Hval 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17117 The Dog Stars Peter Heller 2012 American English
17117 What Should Be Wild Julia Fine 2018 American English
17117 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17117 The Flicker Of Old Dreams Susan Henderson 2018 American English
17117 Come West And See Maxim Loskutoff 2018 American English
17117 Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi 2011 American English
17117 The Ark Sakura Kobo Abé 1984 Japanese Japanese
17117 What Is All This? Stephen Dixon 2010 American English
17117 Ankomst Gøhril Gabrielsen 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 The Bird Tribunal Agnes Ravatn 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Zero Gine Cornelia Pedersen 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Ramifications Daniel Saldaña París 2018 Mexican Spanish
17117 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
17117 Hansen’s Children Ognjen Spahić 2004 Montenegrin Montenegrin
17117 Dry Season Gabriela Babnik 2012 Unknown Slovene
17117 The Russian Window Dragan Velikić 2007 Unknown Serbian
17117 Border State Tõnu Õnnepalu 1993 Estonian Estonian
17117 The Saviour Of Lasnamäe Mari Saat 2009 Estonian Estonian
17117 Tūla Jurgis Kunčinas 1993 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17117 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17117 Bluebeard’s First Wife Ha Seong-nan 2002 Korean Korean
17117 The Galaxy, And The Ground Within Becky Chambers 2021 American English
17117 Gallant V. E. Schwab 2022 American English
17117 Messenger Lois Lowry 2004 American English
17117 Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption Stephen King 1982 American English
16825 The Silent Cry Kenzaburō Ōe 1967 Japanese Japanese
17117 Silo 1 Hugh Howey 2012 American English
17053 The Great Wall Of China Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
17117 Unravel Me Tahereh Mafi 2013 American English
17117 The Hike Drew Magary 2016 American English
17117 A Boy And A Bear In A Boat Dave Shelton 2012 British English
17117 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
17117 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17117 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
17006 Nightfall And Other Stories Isaac Asimov 1969 American English
17117 The Party At No. 5 Shelley Smith 1964 Unknown English
17117 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17117 The Long Shadow Celia Fremlin 1975 British English
17117 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17117 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17117 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17117 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17117 All The Names They Used For God Anjali Sachdeva 2018 American English
16963 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17117 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
17117 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17117 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17117 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17117 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17117 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17117 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17117 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17117 Winter Count Barry Lopez 1981 American English
16959 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
16975 Under The Autumn Star Knut Hamsun 1906 Norwegian Norwegian
17023 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 The Extinction Of Experience Christine Rosen 2004 Unknown English
17117 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
16802 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
17117 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17117 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
16747 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
17117 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17117 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
16922 The Gentle Spirit Fyodor Dostoevsky 1876 Russian Russian
17117 A Shining Jon Fosse Unknown Norwegian
17117 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17117 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
17117 A History Of Wild Places Shea Ernshaw 2021 American English
17117 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
16791 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
16754 The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
17117 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17117 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17117 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17117 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17117 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17117 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17117 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17117 The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood 2015 British English
17117 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17117 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17117 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17117 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
17117 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
17117 Dracula Jon J. Muth Unknown Unknown
16807 No Surrender Hiroo Onoda 1974 Japanese Japanese