The Greatest Books of All Time on Solitude

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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
15897 Elizabeth And Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1898 German English
15897 Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1883 Swiss French
16493 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
16699 The Peregrine J. A. Baker 1967 British English
16650 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
17117 Alaska Wilderness Robert Marshall 1956 American English
17117 The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating Renee Raudman, Elisabeth Tova Bailey 2010 American English
17117 Company Samuel Beckett 1979 Irish English
17117 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
17117 Reveries Of A Bachelor Donald Grant Mitchell 1850 American English
17117 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17117 A Breath Of Life Clarice Lispector 1978 Brazilian Portuguese
17117 Loop Brenda Lozano 2014 Mexican Spanish
17117 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
17117 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17117 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17106 The Singing Wilderness Sigurd F. Olson 1956 American English
17117 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17117 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17117 Gravity And Center Henri Cole 2023 American English
17117 Spring Rain Marc Hamer 2023 British English
17117 Sailing Alone Richard King 2023 Unknown English
17117 Cem Dias Entre Céu E Mar Amyr Klink 1985 Brazilian Portuguese
17117 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17117 Arrangements In Blue Amy Key 2023 Unknown English
17092 Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
16881 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17117 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17117 Perlmann's Silence Pascal Mercier Swiss German
17117 Rough Magic Lara Prior-Palmer 2019 British English
17117 Watermark Joseph Brodsky 1989 Unknown English
17117 Todos Os Contos Clarice Lispector 2015 Brazilian Portuguese