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By Grace Fleming, About.com

Ever felt like you just don’t belong in this world? We’ve all felt like outcasts from time to time—like nobody else in the entire world could possibly understand the misery, embarrassment, turmoil, or torment that we feel. If you can relate, you might enjoy this list of old and new books about outcasts.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

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