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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Leap of Faith
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Leap of Faith

Danielle Steel

2001 · 2005 edition

255 pages

Black Barn
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Black Barn

Jeff Lemire, Wands, Steve, letterer

Published 2018

160 pages

LYREBIRD- HB
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LYREBIRD- HB

Cecelia Ahern

Published 2016

413 pages

Someday
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Someday

David Levithan

2015 · 2018 edition

400 pages

With this Ring
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With this Ring

Jayne Ann Krentz

1989 · 2008 edition

358 pages

Under the Egg
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Under the Egg

Laura Marx Fitzgerald

Published 2014

247 pages

Mooncop
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Mooncop

Tom Gauld

Published 2016

96 pages

Eyrie
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Eyrie

Tim Winton

Published 2013

424 pages

Timon of Athens
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Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

1888 · 2024 edition

156 pages

The Red Tree
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The Red Tree

Shaun Tan

2000 · 2010 edition

32 pages

Cows
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Cows

Matthew Stokoe

1998 · 2015 edition

216 pages

Purplicious
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Purplicious

Victoria Kann, Elizabeth Kann

2007 · 2010 edition

40 pages

Italian Shoes
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Italian Shoes

Henning Mankell

2007 · 2009 edition

392 pages

Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1879 · 2008 edition

308 pages

Note Book
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Note Book

Jeff Nunokawa

Published 2015

360 pages