/lit/ - Literature

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I found this one years ago on a /lit/ recommendation image. It's great book on the positives of solitude, written by a British psychiatrist/psychoanalyst. He criticizes the trend in modern psychology of reducing all our problems in life to interpersonal relationship problems.

I really liked Stephen batchelor's books, especially "Buddhism without beliefs"

"Solitude" by Anthony Storr is a great book
"[solitude]... challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. It argues that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great satisfactions of life - work and creativity. In a series of biographical sketches it demonstrates how many of the creative geniuses of our civilization have been solitary, by temperament or circumstance, and how the capacity to be alone is, even for those who are not creative, a sign of maturity."

"A Book Of Silence" by Sarah Maitland is really worth a read. It follows the journey of the author who aims to live like a hermit.

"The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst" by Nicholas Tomhurst is a great book about someone going mad in solitude.