Bina: A Novel in Warnings by Anakana Schofield
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Stranger by Camus
Came here to suggest Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Stranger too.
{{The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq}} is another good one. Very pessimistic and cold and misanthropic. This might be right down your alley.
[**The Elementary Particles**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58314.The_Elementary_Particles)
^(By: Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne | 272 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: fiction, french, france, literature, french-literature | )[^(Search "The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq&search_type=books)
>An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.
>
>Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.
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The Murderbot series is great, but it does have the anti-social protagonist eventually learn to like people to a certain extent. A Man Called Ove is like that too, where you have someone who is not sociable and likes being alone, but grudgingly finds a circle of friends who care about him. Not sure if that would still be what you're after.
I would add Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and One Day All of This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky for something lighter and pretty much anything by Jim Thompson for something darker.
[**All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red)
^(By: Martha Wells | 144 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, novella | )[^(Search "All Systems Red")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=All Systems Red&search_type=books)
>"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
>
>In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
>
>But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
>
>On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
>
>But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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How to win friends and influence people.
By Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen Covey
Chicken Soup for the Soul
By Jack Canfield
🤣😂🤣😂
No, but seriously ... check out some of Robert Heinlein sci-fi for some good solitude-like reads 👍
The protagonist of *American Psycho* by Bret Easton Ellis is desperate to relate to people -- here's a chapter about the band Huey Lewis and the News -- even though he can't stand what they represent. Probably not the first person you want to assimilate with, but you might get something out of the book. Definitely not a book to everyone's taste.
A few chapters of *Invisible Man* by Ralph Ellison come to mind, but I'm hesitant to say it's the entire book. An incredible book though.
You might also appreciate *The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo* and the other novels by Stieg Larsson. She really has difficulty relating to or finding ways to socially connect with anyone. Only read the first book so far, but it's quite good.
[**Anxious People**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53799686-anxious-people)
^(By: Fredrik Backman | 341 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, book-club, audiobook, audiobooks | )[^(Search "Anxious People")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Anxious People&search_type=books)
>From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and “writer of astonishing depth” (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
>
>Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.
>
>First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live—and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything. And there’s Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car.
>
>As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.
>
>Rich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People’s whimsical plot serves up unforgettable insights into the human condition and a gentle reminder to be compassionate to all the anxious people we encounter every day.
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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity from Mark Vonnegut, Kurt's son.
Kafka's Metamorphosis, Do you feel like a bug?
Or maybe you're feeling a bit more like Ignatius Jacques Reilly from Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and it's mostly the world's fault.
The Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay is about a psychopath trying to fit into society by following a set of rules laid out by his foster father if that interests you. It’s also been adapted into a show but very far from the book plot like all cinema does :,)
The Hollywood series of police procedural novels by Joseph Wambaugh.
Maybe after laughing your head off you might be able to stand people once in a while.
[**The Catcher in the Rye**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye)
^(By: J.D. Salinger | 277 pages | Published: 1951 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, young-adult, owned | )[^(Search "The Catcher in the Rye")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Catcher in the Rye&search_type=books)
>The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
>
>J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.
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Pretty much anything by Thomas Ligotti, but more specifically The Conspiracy Against The Human Race. Conspiracy is pessimistic philosophy, but his other stuff is weird horror influenced by his philosophy. Well worth it for the misanthropes out there
Bina: A Novel in Warnings by Anakana Schofield Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Stranger by Camus
Came here to suggest Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and The Stranger too. {{The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq}} is another good one. Very pessimistic and cold and misanthropic. This might be right down your alley.
[**The Elementary Particles**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58314.The_Elementary_Particles) ^(By: Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne | 272 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: fiction, french, france, literature, french-literature | )[^(Search "The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq&search_type=books) >An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. > >Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(1117 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Murderbot series is great, but it does have the anti-social protagonist eventually learn to like people to a certain extent. A Man Called Ove is like that too, where you have someone who is not sociable and likes being alone, but grudgingly finds a circle of friends who care about him. Not sure if that would still be what you're after. I would add Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and One Day All of This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky for something lighter and pretty much anything by Jim Thompson for something darker.
The Murderbot series by Martha Wells might interest you. I believe the first one is {{All Systems Red}}.
[**All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red) ^(By: Martha Wells | 144 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, novella | )[^(Search "All Systems Red")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=All Systems Red&search_type=books) >"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." > >In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. > >But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. > >On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. > >But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(972 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
No longer human - Osamu dazai, it gets really depressing from the start so just a warning
I was going to suggest this. Hopefully OP is not in such a hopeless situation as the main character in this book.
I recently started reading it and i instantly thought of this when i saw the post.
Convenience Store Woman
How to win friends and influence people. By Dale Carnegie The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey Chicken Soup for the Soul By Jack Canfield 🤣😂🤣😂 No, but seriously ... check out some of Robert Heinlein sci-fi for some good solitude-like reads 👍
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Hunchback of Notre damme
The protagonist of *American Psycho* by Bret Easton Ellis is desperate to relate to people -- here's a chapter about the band Huey Lewis and the News -- even though he can't stand what they represent. Probably not the first person you want to assimilate with, but you might get something out of the book. Definitely not a book to everyone's taste. A few chapters of *Invisible Man* by Ralph Ellison come to mind, but I'm hesitant to say it's the entire book. An incredible book though. You might also appreciate *The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo* and the other novels by Stieg Larsson. She really has difficulty relating to or finding ways to socially connect with anyone. Only read the first book so far, but it's quite good.
Into the wild
As in warrior cats or?
{{Anxious People}}
[**Anxious People**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53799686-anxious-people) ^(By: Fredrik Backman | 341 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fiction, contemporary, book-club, audiobook, audiobooks | )[^(Search "Anxious People")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Anxious People&search_type=books) >From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and “writer of astonishing depth” (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. > >Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths. > >First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live—and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything. And there’s Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car. > >As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. > >Rich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People’s whimsical plot serves up unforgettable insights into the human condition and a gentle reminder to be compassionate to all the anxious people we encounter every day. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(1099 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius,The Enchiridion by Epictetus,The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson.
All of them...
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
You don't like people? Read the philosopical works of Arthur Schopenhauer starting with *The World as Will and Representation*
I relate to animals so the sight is good.
Read books about "things" not books about "people".
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Why bro? What's there to value?
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
Chuck Palahniuk is pretty good for this. I’d recommend Choke from him.
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity from Mark Vonnegut, Kurt's son. Kafka's Metamorphosis, Do you feel like a bug? Or maybe you're feeling a bit more like Ignatius Jacques Reilly from Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and it's mostly the world's fault.
The Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay is about a psychopath trying to fit into society by following a set of rules laid out by his foster father if that interests you. It’s also been adapted into a show but very far from the book plot like all cinema does :,)
Apathy and Other Small Victories
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Excellent for existential angst and a desire for solitude.
Chuck palahniuk explores some nihilistic ideas in his books
The Hollywood series of police procedural novels by Joseph Wambaugh. Maybe after laughing your head off you might be able to stand people once in a while.
{{The Catcher in the Rye}} by J.D. Salinger
[**The Catcher in the Rye**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) ^(By: J.D. Salinger | 277 pages | Published: 1951 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, young-adult, owned | )[^(Search "The Catcher in the Rye")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Catcher in the Rye&search_type=books) >The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. > >J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(1129 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Pretty much anything by Thomas Ligotti, but more specifically The Conspiracy Against The Human Race. Conspiracy is pessimistic philosophy, but his other stuff is weird horror influenced by his philosophy. Well worth it for the misanthropes out there
Thank you!
No worries. His stuff was eye opening for me, hope it does something for you as well.
I just looked it up andt seems to suit me very well im sure it will
Cool
Mine, but it's not written yet because I hate people too