You may be reading alone, but it is anything but lonely. For me, a good book means never feeling alone. I see what the protagonist sees while I walk with him or her through the same landscape. So I trudge through muddy alleys in 19th-century London (‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak) or walk across the cobblestones of a piazza under the Neapolitan sun (‘Gap’ by Yannick Dangre). Still, physically you are just sitting there alone with your book, but it doesn't have t