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
15916 Elizabeth And Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1898 German English
15916 Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1883 Swiss French
16509 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
16730 The Peregrine J. A. Baker 1967 British English
16679 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
17163 Alaska Wilderness Robert Marshall 1956 American English
17163 The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating Renee Raudman, Elisabeth Tova Bailey 2010 American English
17163 Company Samuel Beckett 1979 Irish English
17163 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
17163 Reveries Of A Bachelor Donald Grant Mitchell 1850 American English
17163 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17163 A Breath Of Life Clarice Lispector 1978 Brazilian Portuguese
17163 Loop Brenda Lozano 2014 Mexican Spanish
17163 On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera 2017 Mexican Spanish
16926 The Collected Songs Of Cold Mountain Hanshan -800 Chinese Classical chinese
17163 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17163 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe Fernando Pessoa 1998 Portuguese Portuguese
17163 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17152 The Singing Wilderness Sigurd F. Olson 1956 American English
17163 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17163 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17163 Gravity And Center Henri Cole 2023 American English
17163 Spring Rain Marc Hamer 2023 British English
17163 Sailing Alone Richard King 2023 Unknown English
17163 1999 Emily Dickinson Unknown Unknown
17163 Cem Dias Entre Céu E Mar Amyr Klink 1985 Brazilian Portuguese
17163 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17163 Arrangements In Blue Amy Key 2023 Unknown English
17123 Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
16905 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17163 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
16854 The Cloud Of Unknowing And Other Works Anonymous 1375 English Middle english
17163 Perlmann's Silence Pascal Mercier Swiss German
17163 Rough Magic Lara Prior-Palmer 2019 British English
17163 Watermark Joseph Brodsky 1989 Unknown English
17163 Todos Os Contos Clarice Lispector 2015 Brazilian Portuguese