Wintering
Katherine May, キャサリン・メイ
2020 · 2025 edition
304 pages
The most popular loneliness books of 2020
Books about loneliness understand what it is to feel apart. A character lives alone in a big city, drifts from old friends or sits unseen in a crowded room. These novels and essays are tender and often funny, and they tend to end with a connection that matters. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Catherine House
Elisabeth Thomas
2020 · 2021 edition
310 pages
Intimations
Zadie Smith
Published 2020
97 pages
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez
2020 · 2021 edition
416 pages
Together
Vivek H. Murthy
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
An Island
Karen Jennings
2020 · 2021 edition
182 pages
Apartment
Teddy Wayne
2020 · 2021 edition
208 pages
The Crossroads at Midnight
Abby Howard
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Lonely Century Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
Noreena Hertz
2020 · 2021 edition
394 pages
Sugar in Milk
Thrity N. Umrigar, Khoa Le
Published 2020
48 pages
Wuhan Diary
Fang Fang, Michael Berry
2020 · 2022 edition
416 pages
Margaret's Unicorn
Briony May Smith
2020 · 2022 edition
40 pages
Subtle Acts of Exclusion
Tiffany Jana, Michael Baran
Published 2020
192 pages
The Art of Solitude
Stephen Batchelor
Published 2020
200 pages
At the Center of All Beauty
Fenton Johnson
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
Vision
Julia Gfrörer, Montse Meneses Vilar, Daniel Tudelilla Pérez
Published 2020
56 pages
Good Chemistry The Science of Connection from Soul to Psychedelics
Julie Holland
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Incredible!
Vincent Zabus
Published 2020
198 pages
Fault Lines Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
Karl Pillemer, PH.D.
Published 2020
288 pages
Looking for Eliza
Leaf Arbuthnot
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
The Frozen River Seeking Silence in the Himalaya
James Crowden
Published 2020
342 pages
Three Pieces of Glass Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens
Eric O. Jacobsen
Published 2020
288 pages
A History of Solitude
David Vincent
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Published 2020
280 pages