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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17162 | People From Bloomington | Budi Darma | 1980 | Indonesian | Indonesian | |
| 17162 | Dracula | Jon J. Muth | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 16842 | No Surrender | Hiroo Onoda | 1974 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | Hollow Kingdom | Bill Buxton | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 16933 | Notes From Underground & The Double | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17162 | Breaking And Entering | Joy Williams | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Servants Of The Map | Andrea Barrett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Then The Fish Swallowed Him | Amir Ahmadi Arian | 2020 | Iranian | English | |
| 17162 | The Drowned | Moniro Ravanipour | 1989 | Unknown | Persian | |
| 17162 | Rituals Of Restlessness | Yaghoub Yadali | 2016 | Iranian | Persian | |
| 17162 | Brief Encounters With The Enemy | Saïd Sayrafiezadeh | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer | Jennifer Lynch | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Homunculus 1 | Hideo Yamamoto | 2003 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | Siilo | Hugh Howey | 2011 | American | English | |
| 16946 | The Dry Heart | Natalia Ginzburg | 1947 | Italian | Italian | |
| 16983 | The Disconnected | Oğuz Atay | 1972 | Turkish | Turkish | |
| 17162 | No One Writes Back | Jang Jin-sung | 2013 | Unknown | Korean | |
| 17162 | In The Shade Of Spring Leaves | Ichiyō Higuchi | 1981 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | The Weight Of Things | Marianne Fritz | 1978 | Austrian | German | |
| 17162 | Dandelions | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese | Japanese | ||
| 17162 | I, The Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos | 1974 | Paraguayan | Spanish | |
| 17162 | Ghosts | Unknown | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Insignificance | Terry Johnson | 1982 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break | Steven Sherrill | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17055 | Tujec / Kuga | Albert Camus | 1942 | French | French | |
| 17162 | Worlds Of Exile And Illusion | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Ruan | Bryher | 1960 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Ordeal By Silence | Prudence Andrew | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | This January Tale | Bryher | 1966 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Silent Tarn | Hannah Closs | 1963 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Last Englishman | Hebe Weenolson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | The Cold Journey | Grace Stone | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | Surveyor | Turman Nelson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | The Whales Of Lake Tanganyika | Lennart Hagerfors | 1992 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17162 | Molokai | O.A. Bushnell | 1960 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Literature Express | Lasha Bugadze | 2009 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17162 | A Man Was Going Down The Road | Otar Chiladze | 1973 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17162 | The Fleeting City | Hovhannes Tekgyozan | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | The Last Language | Jennifer duBois | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Girlfriend On Mars | Deborah Willis | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | On Earth As It Is On Television | Emily Jane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Same Dog | Robert Aickman | 2023 | British | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet | Vandana Singh | 2009 | Indian | English | |
| 17162 | Beware The Woman | Megan Abbott | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Strega | Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel | 2020 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17162 | Roman Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | A Shining | Jon Fosse | 2023 | Norwegian | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The Love Of Singular Men | Victor Heringer | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17162 | Naked In The Rideshare | Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | January | Sara Gallardo | 2023 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 17162 | A Haunting On The Hill | Elizabeth Hand | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The House Of Doors | Tan Twan Eng | 2023 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17162 | The Vulnerables | Sigrid Nunez | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The Dimensions Of A Cave | Greg Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Monica | Daniel Clowes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | A Volga Tale | Guzel Yakhina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17162 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Reproduction | Louisa Hall | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | A Flat Place | Noreen Masud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Paris Notebooks | Mavis Gallant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Pole | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 17162 | The Caretaker | Ron Rash | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Wednesday’s Child | Yiyun Li | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Witness | Jamel Brinkley | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Disruptions | Steven Millhauser | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The Plague | Jacqueline Rose | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | My Stupid Intentions | Bernardo Zannoni | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17162 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17162 | Snow Road Station | Elizabeth Hay | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Sullivanians | Alexander Stille | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Late Americans | Brandon Taylor | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Instructions For The Drowning | Steven Heighton | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | Owlish | Dorothy Tse | 2023 | Unknown | Chinese | |
| 17162 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Hit Parade Of Tears | Izumi Suzuki | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | The Fawn | Magda Szabó | 2023 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17162 | Greek Lessons | Han Kang | 2023 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17162 | Old God’s Time | Sebastian Barry | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17162 | Users | Colin Winnette | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Eastbound | Maylis de Kerangal | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17162 | Big Swiss | Jen Beagin | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Sun Walks Down | Fiona McFarlane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Evil Flowers | Gunnhild Øyehaug | 2023 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17162 | This Other Eden | Paul Harding | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Forbidden Notebook | Alba de Céspedes | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17162 | Ghost Music | An Yu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17162 | Owner Of A Lonely Heart | Beth Nguyen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | No One Will Come Back For Us | Premee Mohamed | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Strange | Nathan Ballingrud | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | My Men | Victoria Kielland | 2023 | Unknown | Norwegian | |
| 17162 | A Haunting On The Hill | Elizabeth Hand | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Straw Dogs Of The Universe | Ye Chun | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Sailing Alone | Richard King | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 16864 | Olağanüstü Bir Gece | Stefan Zweig | 1922 | Austrian | German | |
| 17162 | Remnant Population | Elizabeth Moon | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17162 | 1999 | Emily Dickinson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | Nine Inches | Tom Perrotta | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Men Can't Be Saved | Ben Purkert | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom | Jason Pargin | American | Unknown | ||
| 17162 | Black Sheep | Rachel Harrison | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | New Waves | Eric Nguyen | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | This Must Be The Place | Maggie O'Farrell | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Abandon | Blake Crouch | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Hurricane Girl | Marcy Dermansky | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17162 | 2 A.M. In Little America | Ken Kalfus | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Militia House | John Milas | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Good Samaritan | John Marrs | 2018 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Mild Vertigo | Mieko Kanai | 1997 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | T. Singer | Dag Solstad | 1999 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 16851 | Precious Bane | Mary Webb | 1924 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Folded Earth | Anuradha roy | 2011 | Indian | English | |
| 17162 | The Magic Kingdom | Russell Banks | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Age Of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Diary Of Alice James | Alice James | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The File On H. | Ismail Kadare | 1981 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 17162 | God's Grace | Bernard Malamud | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17162 | How Like An Angel | Margaret Millar | 1962 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Nephew | James Purdy | 1960 | American | English |