I research a lot to find Fiction books about loneliness. Below, I provide a list with an explanation of each book.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Charlotte Moshfegh:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Charlotte MoshfeghOne Line:
It’s a story about 24 Years old narrator who gets intentional addiction to antidepressants and medicines that results in sleep.
Why read it:
The narrator gets graduates, a job in an art gallery and an apartment from their inheritance.
There is missing in her life about the loss of her parents, boyfriend issues or sad Friendship.
The book provides answers through the heroine that stuck on drugs and has mental issues. The book explains situation solutions with reasonable, necessary, merciful and compassionate. Read 11 best Inspirational movies on Netflix for students.
Key points:
The narrator suffers from mental issues herself.
Her odd behaviour of drug addiction is quite funny and thinkable.
It explains the loneliness impact to see fulfilled and happy life.
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates:
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The realistic stories explain loneliness through loss, brutality and heartbreak.
Why read it:
The small stories that intimate relationships for exploration of universal emotions. It explains loneliness that associates with rejection and worthless feelings. The author explains true human nature and highlights aspects of separation. It’s one of the loneliness fiction books that have multiple stories with separate lonely experiences.
Key points:
The author explains the 11 kinds of loneliness through small stories.
It is the Real feeling sense with all possibilities of loneliness.
The short stories have an echo of another story for understanding.
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing:
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The story revolves around the identification of the facts about being lonely and ways to resist and redeem it.
Why read it:
The book explains loneliness, its connection with people and technology. In the mid-thirties, a woman moves to new york city and explores the loneliness of the City. She meets with various personalities to check out the loneliness’s causes and effects.
Key points:
The narrator explores art to identify her answers to loneliness.
The technology feeds the illusion of connection that yields health problems.
The loneliness can be personal, collective or political.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf:
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Ramsay brings his 8 Children to their summer house; there is a large lighthouse across the bay; 6 Years old, James Ramsay develops conflict to see the lighthouse with his father.
Why read it:
Mr Ramsay, his children and other guests visit the summer house. The book explains the men and women’s conflict through complex tension. Mr Ramsay experiences loneliness and ways to adopt the change with capacities. The desire to go to the lighthouse gives hope to the characters. The lighthouse presents strength, inaccessible and consistent desire.
Key points:
The desirable things are hard to achieve.
It teaches the transformation of human life that comes through change. The permanent moment can be temporary.
It explains the social relationship between women and men.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck:
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Two workers move from various places to find jobs opportunities during the great depression of America.
Why read it:
George is black, small and sharp-minded. Lennie has a large size with a child a mind. Both create a family and develop a plan to own an acre of land. The flirting woman controls Lennie while Goerge fails to save Lennie.
Key points:
The loneliness among characters comes through race, age and gender.
Innocence comes through mental and physical issues of character.
The two workers have share dreams that bring them together.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky:
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It’s a story of a socially awkward teen who becomes down in his life identifies his love; a friend’s suicide with a personal mental illness brings him to another group of people.
Why read it:
It explains growing up in high school. Charlie’s letters Explain his experiences. He tries to live his life. He experiences the family, friends and dates world. Then shift to drugs, sex and rock culture with infinite feelings.
Key points:
The book explains the inclusivity and tolerance to be yourself.
It’s not necessary to know everything about every aspect.
Te inner sadness impacts your confidence in dreams.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman:
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Our struggling protagonist finds life nothing more than just fine but everything changes as she meets Raymond, which transforms her life.
Why read it:
Our heroine has appropriate social skills. Nothing seems missing in her life when she meets the unhygienic guy from her office. Raymond assists her in finding the more than fine things in her life. She finds true friendships and love.
Key points:
The book explains that opening your heart is the best way to survive.
Eleanor has no emotional needs because she never experiences the emotions that make her lonely.
She feels nothing more than completing her physical needs until love or Friendship.
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer:
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A middle-aged woman finds herself lonely due to some military experiment and does work for her renewal and survival.
Why read it:
An alone middle-aged female finds herself alone in a dystopian land. There is no explanation a woman finds for the situation. The basic survival in solitude happens that requires skill and empathy for life. She fulfils her needs by calculating them.
Key points:
The book explains the basic mentality to survive alone through the Human Natural ability to survive.
There are not many things necessary for survival.
She found herself at ease with the surroundings be ready to thrive.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys:
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A woman returns to Paris after a long absence with no financial stability and a past of unhappy marriage with child death.
Why read it:
The heroine is a middle-aged woman. She encounters loss, love and a daring past.
Her memories hunt and impact her present. She runs from her husband and eventually divorced. She has a sense of loneliness because of disturbing events.
Key points:
She encounters various men but requires a truly intimate connection.
She gets clarity through unfolding her horrible memories.
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton:
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The book is a journal of May Sarton about solitude and her experience to feel damaged in silence and exploration of alone time.
Why read it:
The book explains the routine life of May Sarton.
The challenges she faces and demons hinder her creative energy.
It Explains her relationship with the wild, animals, friends and neighbours. She is aware of her mistakes and shoe the courage to accept her imperfect self.
She analyses her life problems, challenges and achievements in a creative way.
Key points:
The book shares the thought process to cope while being Strong and creative living.
The author faces impact through ageing and other opportunities.
She values solitude to analyse things more deeply and understand consequences.
