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
10223 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10231 The Museum Of Modern Love Heather Rose 2018 Australian English
10235 Que Cavalos São Aqueles Que Fazem Sombra No Mar? António Lobo Antunes 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
10263 Solo Faces James Salter 1979 American English
10275 Juliette Camille Jourdy 2016 French French
10301 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10363 Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen 1975 American English
10394 Mudwoman Joyce Carol Oates 2012 American English
10396 Sea Of Tranquillity Paul Russell 1994 Unknown English
10453 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10501 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10507 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10509 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
10519 Sweet Days of Discipline Fleur Jaeggy 1989 Swiss Italian
10520 Father Of Frankenstein Christopher Bram 1995 American English
10548 Rat Bohemia Sarah Schulman 1995 American English
10558 Seven Plays Sam Shepard 1981 American English
10579 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
10623 Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 2015 American English
10626 The Dog That Saw God Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
10636 The New Me Halle Butler 2019 American English
10638 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
10725 In The Belly Of The Beast Jack Henry Abbott 1981 American English
10741 The Fifth Child Doris May Lessing 1988 British English
10768 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10795 Lilas Rouge Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker 2012 Unknown French
10841 The Story Of The Night Colm Toibin 1996 Irish English
10907 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10912 Grief Andrew Holleran 2022 American English
10912 Samedi The Deafness Jesse Ball 2007 American English
10912 The Last Novel David Markson 2007 American English
10927 Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett 1988 Irish English
10939 Langrishe, Go Down Aidan Higgins 1966 Irish English
10949 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10963 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10970 That Time Of Year Marie NDiaye 2020 French French
10990 Stop Time Frank Conroy 1967 American English
11006 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
11006 The Island Of The Day Before Umberto Eco 1994 Italian Italian
11025 Jerome Jean-Pierre Martinet 1978 French French
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11068 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11068 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11077 The Lost Man Jane Harper 2018 Australian English
11082 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
11086 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11113 A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg 1971 American English
11113 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11138 An Arrow’s Flight Mark Merlis 1998 American English
11163 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11162 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11168 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11168 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11181 Juletane Myriam Warner-Vieyra 1982 Senegalese French
11189 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11210 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
11238 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11274 The Turn Of The Key Ruth Ware 2019 British English
11278 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11295 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11296 This Life Karel Schoeman 1993 South African Afrikaans
11332 The Abominations Of Yondo Clark Ashton Smith 1960 American English
11366 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
11366 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11366 The Pencil Territory Robert Walser Swiss Unknown
11366 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11366 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11366 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11407 Big Sur Jack Kerouac 1962 American English
11410 The Island Robert Merle 1962 French French
11433 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11470 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11508 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein 2021 Canadian English
11547 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11569 The Swallower Swallowed Réjean Ducharme 1966 Canadian French
11582 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11615 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11644 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11644 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11663 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
11663 If The River Was Whiskey T. Coraghessan Boyle 1989 American English
11813 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
11846 Le Pavillon Des Enfants Fous Valérie Valère 1978 French French
11865 Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube Blair Braverman 2016 American English
11883 The Barracks John McGahern 1963 Irish English
11896 Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li 2014 American English
11923 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11932 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11941 Lindbergh A. Scott Berg 1998 American English
12016 Hygiene And The Assassin Amélie Nothomb 1992 Belgian French
12019 La Danseuse Patrick Modiano 2023 French French
12026 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12050 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12050 The Alphonse Courrier Affair Marta Morazzoni 1985 Italian Italian
12050 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12050 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12063 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12071 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12084 John Dollar Marianne Wiggins 1989 American English
12130 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12201 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian
12214 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
12242 Brother Brontë Fernando A. Flores 2023 Unknown English
12259 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12310 When I Was Five I Killed Myself Howard Buten 1981 American English
12323 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12378 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12326 Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone 1992 American English
12326 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12326 The Collected Stories Of Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant 1996 Canadian English
12326 Toward The End Of Time John Updike 1997 American English
12450 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12488 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12515 All But The Waltz Mary Clearman Blew 1991 American English
12515 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12551 Minimosca Gustavo Faverón Patriau 2024 Peruvian Spanish; castilian
12588 Geeks Jon Katz 2000 American English
12588 The Ice Master Jennifer Niven 2000 American English
12657 Poems Of R. S. Thomas R. S. Thomas 2003 British English