Books like Loneliness by Robert S. Weiss

Erving Goffman's classic work uses the stage as a metaphor for everyday life, showing how people craft and manage impressions in social interactions to shape how they are perceived.

Hannah Arendt’s classic examination of human activity—labor, work, and action—shows how everyday practice shapes the human condition and serves as a foundation for political freedom.

Chain Letter: A terrifying chain letter story of friends who commit a terrible crime and must now pay for it with their secrets and their lives.

Robert Putnam's seminal work on the decline of community in America, focusing on the impact of the decline of bowling leagues and the loss of social capital.

A lonely library book finds a new home and discovers joy for the first time in years, but the girl and book will have to weather a storm of their own before they find their happy ending.

**The Lonely Crowd** is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark study of American character. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Crowd))

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for -- and sacrificing -- in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. - Publisher.