I want books where everyone is sad and miserable and lonely at the start (or just sad and lonely, I’ll take whatever) but over the course of the story they build up a community or family with other people in a single location.
My two examples of this are both fantasy books (but I’m not necessarily looking for just fantasy): Elantris, and The Bone Ships. Elantris sees the cursed people of a cursed city start to come together and take care of themselves, and The Bone Ships sees the crew of a ship of outcast criminals learn to start working and actually functioning as a crew.
by NoopGhoul