Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Author: Brené Brown

Brene Brown shares her own struggle, confusion and journey of seeking a sense of belonging. This book talks about understanding what feeling lonely and isolated means, and it helps people who are disconnected from the rest to find their way back to comfort. It can be tough to feel isolated and the author talks from her experience on how she was able to cope with it.

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

Author: Morgan Harper Nichols

All Along You Were Blooming is a striking collection of illustrated poetry and prose that has been claimed to be of great help to those people that often feel isolated from the rest. The purpose of this book is to find your way in life and live fully even when you feel like you are not blooming.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

Author: Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. While the story can be funny and entertaining, it is also warm and comforting to those that feel left out in the world. While the free ebooks might seem like a regular romantic comedy, people will truly be surprised by what the real theme in the story is. While this woman is socially uncomfortable, it is comforting for those that can relate to seeing her journey.

The Anatomy of Loneliness: How to Find Your Way Back to Connection

Author: Teal Swan

This book serves as a great tool for mental health and for people who are experiencing a feeling of loss and sadness. The author of the book shares his wisdom when it comes to these topics. Not only does the author help the reader understand these feelings of loss, but it helps them to understand what changes to make in their life to know what is best for them.

Dear Evan Hansen

Author: Val Emmich and Steven Levenson

This book is very well written with well-drawn characters that allow readers to relate easily to them. There is also an important emphasis on Evan’s, the main character, mental health struggles, which makes this book perfect for anyone struggling with mental health issues and battling loneliness and disconnection from the rest of society.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

Author: John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick

John T. Cacioppo was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and his studies have to lead him to write a beautiful book on loneliness and the stages of people who are affected by this. While it might feel taught to read thoroughly for someone that is battling this situation in their life, it can be very helpful for those that lack the knowledge of how loneliness affects others.

The Bell Jar

Author: Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is based on the author’s own struggles with mental illness. The protagonist is Esther Greenwood, a college student living in New York when the book begins. The author talks about incredibly hard-hitting and relatable things about mental health and the loneliness that separate those that need help from those that don’t understand those who need it. It is beautifully written and great for people who are battling a situation related to loneliness.

1984

Author: George Orwell

The primary theme of 1984 by George Orwell is to warn readers of the dangers of totalitarianism. The central focus of the book is to convey the extreme level of control and power possible under a truly totalitarian regime.

Through his book, there is a demonstration of emotional frigidity which in this case, isolates the main character and the rest of the society. While the book touches on various subjects, the impact that loneliness has on individuals upon a controlled regimen is very important to demonstrate how everyone has to live together in unison in order to live in harmony.

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Author: Olivia Laing

The Book conducts a dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be avoided or how people are able to get out of it.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Author: Rebecca Solnit

The overall concept of the book is about getting lost both mentally and physically. These topics are tough to deal with nowadays in society, and not a lot of people dare to talk about mental health issues and what people that have them have to go through, therefore this book is definitively helpful to bring awareness to the situation.

What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

Author: Chidera Eggerue

This book is about the feeling of loneliness and helplessness. While it shows readers that being alone is different from the feeling isolated and lonely, people have to learn how to be with themselves and to not need someone all the time.

Nevertheless, the feeling of isolation can be very harsh for some people, and the author in this book helps the reader to understand the situation that they are in, and it helps them to get out of that bad place.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

A shocking, hilarious, and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation. While this book touches on another form of isolation, through drug use and pharma consumption, it can also be quite relatable to readers that have lived through the same situation.