Loneliness as a motif in a book?

Question

anybody know a book where loneliness is the motif?

Answer 1

To some extent:

The Outsider

Author: Albert Camus

Whether you would agree it is loneliness or not is subjective and has been a matter of debate.

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Answer 2

Here is a list of really great novels, most of them I read and all of them are worthwhile reading.

Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel West

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Call It Sleep - Henry Roth

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera

Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving