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Alone Together: Solitude, Loneliness, and Quiet Lives
Characters who are alone—by choice or by circumstance—grappling with isolation, introspection, and the search for connection.
The Stranger
Albert Camus, 1942
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, 1915
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, 2012
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, 1987
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, 1963
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, 2017
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy, 1866
An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine, 2013
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier, 2004