Top ten novels of solitude

Teju Cole was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer, photographer, and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

For the Guardian, he named his top ten novels of solitude, including:Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

This slim volume is the daddy of English spy novels. A big-game hunter decides, on