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
12701 Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 Spanish Catalan
12819 Rage Steve Gerlach 2006 Australian English
12878 Birchwood John Banville 1973 Irish English
12954 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
12969 The Listeners Maggie Stiefvater 2025 Unknown Unknown
12971 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12979 The Dentist Tim Sullivan 2025 British Unknown
13003 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
13047 The Words Of Dr. L Karen E. Bender 2025 American English
13217 Summer Blonde Adrian Tomine 2002 American English
13225 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13276 Wide Open Nicola Barker 1998 British English
13276 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
13256 Wonder When You’ll Miss Me Amanda Davis 2003 American English
13285 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13301 Maze Of Blood Marly Youmans 2015 American English
13332 North Pole Landscape Painting Wumingshi 1943 Chinese Unknown
13337 Project X Jim Shepard 2004 American English
13359 The Duel And Other Stories Anton Chekhov 1891 Russian Russian
13359 The Gate Natsume Sōseki 1910 Japanese Japanese
13359 Rain And Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1921 British English
13359 A Perfect Day For Bananafish J. D. Salinger 1948 American English
13359 The Rocket Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
13509 Machinal Sophie Treadwell 1928 American English
13511 As Simple As Snow Gregory Galloway 2005 American English
13518 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1962 American English
13532 The Height Of The Scream Ramsey Campbell 1976 British English
13542 Steps Jerzy Kosinski 1968 Polish English
13554 Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad 1895 British English
13592 We Were The Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates 1996 American English
13599 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13599 Die Gasse Der Dunklen Läden Patrick Modiano 1978 French French
13599 A Man Scans His Past Maurice Constantin-Weyer French French
13599 L'ordre Marcel Arland 1929 French French
13599 L'epervier De Maheux Jean Carrière 1972 French French
13599 The Wedding Yann Queffélec 1985 French French
13715 The God Of Animals Aryn Kyle 2007 American English
13715 What I Was Meg Rosoff 2007 British English
13715 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13741 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
13750 The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy 1994 American English
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13764 Anathem Neal Stephenson 2008 American English
13771 When We Get There Shauna Seliy 2008 Unknown English
13788 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco 1993 Italian Italian
13817 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13817 Darkness Dacia Maraini 1995 Italian Italian
13817 N. Ernesto Ferrero 2000 Italian Italian
13817 The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti 2016 Italian Italian
13885 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
14174 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
14347 Paco's Story Larry Heinemann 1986 American English
14347 Ship Fever and Other Stories Andrea Barrett 1996 American English
14389 The Collected Stories Richard Yates 2001 American English
14410 Kaspar and Other Plays Peter Handke 1967 Austrian German
14428 1979 Christian Kracht 2001 German German
14457 Nog Rudy Wurlitzer 1969 American English
14498 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14553 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14598 Passage To Juneau Jonathan Raban 1999 British English
14625 Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon 1913 French French
14666 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald 1979 British English
14728 The Naked Sun Isaac Asimov 1957 American English
14730 The Changeling Joy Williams 1978 American English
14856 Alone Richard Byrd 1938 American English
14863 Le Bal Irène Némirovsky 1930 French French
14862 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14896 We Die Alone David Howarth 1955 British English
14884 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
14936 The City And The Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 British English
14961 Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 1972 American English
14964 Greybeard Brian Aldiss 1964 British English
14983 The Rifles William T. Vollmann 1994 American English
14983 The House Of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien 1994 Irish English
14983 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
14983 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
14983 Hawkeye Matt Fraction 2012 American English
14983 The Luminous Dead Caitlin Starling 2019 American English
14983 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
14983 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
14983 Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut 1985 American English
14983 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14983 Brazzaville Beach William Boyd 1990 British English
14983 The Tyranny Of Distance Geoffrey Blainey 1966 Australian English
14983 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14983 John Annie Baker 2015 American English
14970 All That Fall Samuel Beckett 1957 Irish English
14983 The Weir Conor McPherson 1997 Irish English
14983 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
14983 Cujo Stephen King 1981 American English
14983 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14983 Within The Context Of No Context George W. S. Trow 1980 American English
14983 The Outlander Gil Adamson 2007 Canadian English
14983 No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 2007 American English
14983 The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Sherman Alexie 1993 American English
14983 I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman 1995 Belgian French
14983 The Hole Hye-Young Pyun 2016 Korean Korean
14983 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
14983 The Blue Fox Sjón 2003 Icelandic Icelandic
14966 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14983 Faces In The Crowd Valeria Luiselli 2011 Mexican Spanish
14983 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
14983 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14983 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
14983 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
14983 Death In Spring Merce Rodoreda 1986 Spanish Catalan
14983 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14983 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English