Olivia Laing's latest book is The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.
One of her top ten books about loneliness, as shared at Publishers Weekly:The Wall by by Marlen Haushofer
One of the subsets of loneliness literature is the disaster that leaves a single survivor, a genre that dates right back to Robinson Crusoe, marooned on his island. It's frequently deployed in science





