NW
Zadie Smith
Published 2012
304 pages
The most popular loneliness books
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.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.
1970 · 2011 edition
258 pages
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster
2005 · 2011 edition
304 pages
Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey
2009 · 2017 edition
304 pages
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
1975 · 2016 edition
240 pages
The Pigeon (Popular Penguins)
Patrick S'Uskind
1987 · 2009 edition
96 pages
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
1983 · 1993 edition
464 pages
Millions of Cats
Wanda Gag
1971 · 2024 edition
24 pages
Whatever A Novel
Michel Houellebecq
1999 · 2011 edition
155 pages
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
Kabi Nagata
2016 · 2017 edition
152 pages
A Redbird Christmas
Fannie Flagg
2004 · 2015 edition
224 pages
The Lonely City
Olivia Laing
2016 · 2017 edition
315 pages
The Wallflower 11
Tomoko Hayakawa
2004 · 2007 edition
192 pages
The Reader on the 6.27
Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Published 2015
193 pages
Innocence
Dean Koontz
Published 2013
352 pages
Exclusively Yours
Shannon Stacey
2010 · 2013 edition
384 pages
The Chance
Karen Kingsbury
Published 2013
352 pages
How to be Alone
Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
Published 2002
278 pages
Eleanor Rigby
Douglas Coupland
2004 · 2005 edition
336 pages
Little White Lies
Gemma Townley
Published 2005
336 pages
Mrs Bridge
Evan S. Connell
1977 · 2019 edition
193 pages
Homer & Langley
E. L. Doctorow
Published 2009
224 pages
Leap of Faith
Danielle Steel
2001 · 2005 edition
255 pages
Four Years Later
Monica Murphy
Published 2014
301 pages