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
12703 Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 Spanish Catalan
12821 Rage Steve Gerlach 2006 Australian English
12880 Birchwood John Banville 1973 Irish English
12957 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
12972 The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater 2025 Unknown Unknown
12974 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12982 The Dentist Tim Sullivan 2025 British Unknown
13006 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
13050 The Words Of Dr. L Karen E. Bender 2025 American English
13220 Summer Blonde Adrian Tomine 2002 American English
13228 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13279 Wide Open Nicola Barker 1998 British English
13279 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
13259 Wonder When You’ll Miss Me Amanda Davis 2003 American English
13288 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13304 Maze Of Blood Marly Youmans 2015 American English
13335 North Pole Landscape Painting Wumingshi 1943 Chinese Unknown
13340 Project X Jim Shepard 2004 American English
13362 The Duel And Other Stories Anton Chekhov 1891 Russian Russian
13362 The Gate Natsume Sōseki 1910 Japanese Japanese
13362 Rain And Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1921 British English
13362 A Perfect Day For Bananafish J. D. Salinger 1948 American English
13362 The Rocket Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
13511 Machinal Sophie Treadwell 1928 American English
13513 As Simple As Snow Gregory Galloway 2005 American English
13520 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1962 American English
13533 The Height Of The Scream Ramsey Campbell 1976 British English
13543 Steps Jerzy Kosinski 1968 Polish English
13555 Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad 1895 British English
13593 We Were The Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates 1996 American English
13600 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13600 Die Gasse Der Dunklen Läden Patrick Modiano 1978 French French
13600 A Man Scans His Past Maurice Constantin-Weyer French French
13600 L'ordre Marcel Arland 1929 French French
13600 L'epervier De Maheux Jean Carrière 1972 French French
13600 The Wedding Yann Queffélec 1985 French French
13716 The God Of Animals Aryn Kyle 2007 American English
13716 What I Was Meg Rosoff 2007 British English
13716 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13742 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
13751 The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy 1994 American English
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13765 Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008 American English
13772 When We Get There Shauna Seliy 2008 Unknown English
13789 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco 1993 Italian Italian
13818 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13818 Darkness Dacia Maraini 1995 Italian Italian
13818 N. Ernesto Ferrero 2000 Italian Italian
13818 The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti 2016 Italian Italian
13886 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
13993 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
14001 Conquest Of The Useless Werner Herzog 2009 German German
14011 Emperor Of The Air Ethan Canin 1988 American English
14025 Split Tooth Tanya Tagaq 2018 Canadian English
14055 City Alessandro Baricco 1999 Italian Italian
14068 Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver 1976 American English
14173 Wife Bharati Mukherjee 1975 Indian English
14176 Black Tickets Jayne Anne Phillips 1979 American English
14202 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
14204 High-Rise J. G. Ballard 1975 British English
14212 Ender's War Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
14232 Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault 1996 American English
14232 The Passage Justin Cronin 2010 American English
14348 Paco's Story Larry Heinemann 1986 American English
14348 Ship Fever and Other Stories Andrea Barrett 1996 American English
14390 The Collected Stories Richard Yates 2001 American English
14411 Kaspar and Other Plays Peter Handke 1967 Austrian German
14429 1979 Christian Kracht 2001 German German
14458 Nog Rudy Wurlitzer 1969 American English
14499 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14554 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14599 Passage To Juneau Jonathan Raban 1999 British English
14626 Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon 1913 French French
14667 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald 1979 British English
14729 The Naked Sun Isaac Asimov 1957 American English
14732 The Changeling Joy Williams 1978 American English
14858 Alone Richard Byrd 1938 American English
14866 Le Bal Irène Némirovsky 1930 French French
14867 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14899 We Die Alone David Howarth 1955 British English
14887 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
14939 The City And The Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 British English
14963 Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 1972 American English
14966 Greybeard Brian Aldiss 1964 British English
14985 The Rifles William T. Vollmann 1994 American English
14985 The House Of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien 1994 Irish English
14985 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
14985 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
14985 Hawkeye Matt Fraction 2012 American English
14985 The Luminous Dead Caitlin Starling 2019 American English
14985 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
14985 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
14985 Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut 1985 American English
14985 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14985 Brazzaville Beach William Boyd 1990 British English
14985 The Tyranny Of Distance Geoffrey Blainey 1966 Australian English
14985 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14985 John Annie Baker 2015 American English
14972 All That Fall Samuel Beckett 1957 Irish English
14985 The Weir Conor McPherson 1997 Irish English
14985 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
14985 Cujo Stephen King 1981 American English
14985 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14985 Within The Context Of No Context George W. S. Trow 1980 American English
14985 The Outlander Gil Adamson 2007 Canadian English
14985 No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 2007 American English
14985 The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Sherman Alexie 1993 American English
14985 I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman 1995 Belgian French
14985 The Hole Hye-Young Pyun 2016 Korean Korean
14985 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
14985 The Blue Fox Sjón 2003 Icelandic Icelandic
14968 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14985 Faces In The Crowd Valeria Luiselli 2011 Mexican Spanish
14985 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
14985 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14985 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
14985 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
14985 Death In Spring Merce Rodoreda 1986 Spanish Catalan
14985 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14985 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English