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
10217 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10225 The Museum Of Modern Love Heather Rose 2018 Australian English
10229 Que Cavalos São Aqueles Que Fazem Sombra No Mar? António Lobo Antunes 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
10258 Solo Faces James Salter 1979 American English
10270 Juliette Camille Jourdy 2016 French French
10296 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10358 Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen 1975 American English
10389 Mudwoman Joyce Carol Oates 2012 American English
10391 Sea Of Tranquillity Paul Russell 1994 Unknown English
10448 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10496 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10502 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10504 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
10514 Sweet Days of Discipline Fleur Jaeggy 1989 Swiss Italian
10515 Father Of Frankenstein Christopher Bram 1995 American English
10542 Rat Bohemia Sarah Schulman 1995 American English
10552 Seven Plays Sam Shepard 1981 American English
10573 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
10616 Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 2015 American English
10620 The Dog That Saw God Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
10629 The New Me Halle Butler 2019 American English
10632 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
10719 In The Belly Of The Beast Jack Henry Abbott 1981 American English
10735 The Fifth Child Doris May Lessing 1988 British English
10762 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10789 Lilas Rouge Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker 2012 Unknown French
10835 The Story Of The Night Colm Toibin 1996 Irish English
10900 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10905 Grief Andrew Holleran 2022 American English
10905 Samedi The Deafness Jesse Ball 2007 American English
10905 The Last Novel David Markson 2007 American English
10920 Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett 1988 Irish English
10932 Langrishe, Go Down Aidan Higgins 1966 Irish English
10942 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10956 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10963 That Time Of Year Marie NDiaye 2020 French French
10983 Stop Time Frank Conroy 1967 American English
10999 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
10999 The Island Of The Day Before Umberto Eco 1994 Italian Italian
11018 Jerome Jean-Pierre Martinet 1978 French French
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11061 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11061 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11070 The Lost Man Jane Harper 2018 Australian English
11075 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
11079 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11106 A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg 1971 American English
11106 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11131 An Arrow’s Flight Mark Merlis 1998 American English
11156 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11155 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11161 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11161 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11174 Juletane Myriam Warner-Vieyra 1982 Senegalese French
11182 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11203 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
11231 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11267 The Turn Of The Key Ruth Ware 2019 British English
11271 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11288 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11289 This Life Karel Schoeman 1993 South African Afrikaans
11325 The Abominations Of Yondo Clark Ashton Smith 1960 American English
11360 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
11360 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11360 The Pencil Territory Robert Walser Swiss Unknown
11360 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11360 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11360 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11401 Big Sur Jack Kerouac 1962 American English
11404 The Island Robert Merle 1962 French French
11427 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11465 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11505 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein 2021 Canadian English
11544 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11567 The Swallower Swallowed Réjean Ducharme 1966 Canadian French
11579 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11612 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11637 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11641 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11641 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11660 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
11660 If The River Was Whiskey T. Coraghessan Boyle 1989 American English
11811 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
11844 Le Pavillon Des Enfants Fous Valérie Valère 1978 French French
11863 Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman 2016 American English
11881 The Barracks John McGahern 1963 Irish English
11894 Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li 2014 American English
11921 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11930 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11939 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg 1998 American English
12014 Hygiene And The Assassin Amélie Nothomb 1992 Belgian French
12017 La Danseuse Patrick Modiano 2023 French French
12024 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12048 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12048 The Alphonse Courrier Affair Marta Morazzoni 1985 Italian Italian
12048 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12048 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12061 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12083 John Dollar Marianne Wiggins 1989 American English
12129 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12200 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian
12213 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
12241 Brother Brontë Fernando A. Flores 2023 Unknown English
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12309 When I Was Five I Killed Myself Howard Buten 1981 American English
12321 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12376 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12324 Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone 1992 American English
12324 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12324 The Collected Stories Of Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant 1996 Canadian English
12324 Toward The End Of Time John Updike 1997 American English
12448 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12486 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12513 All But The Waltz Mary Clearman Blew 1991 American English
12513 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12549 Minimosca Gustavo Faverón Patriau 2024 Peruvian Spanish; castilian
12586 Geeks Jon Katz 2000 American English
12586 The Ice Master Jennifer Niven 2000 American English
12655 Poems Of R. S. Thomas R. S. Thomas 2003 British English