The Greatest Books of All Time on Human Relationships

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
692 The Hive Camilo José Cela 1951 Spanish Spanish
1149 A Sportsman's Notebook Ivan Turgenev 1852 Russian Russian
1379 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Eudora Welty 1980 American English
1458 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Carson McCullers 1951 American English
1922 Tropisms Nathalie Sarraute 1939 French French
2008 Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
2079 The Major Plays Anton Chekhov 1964 Russian Russian
2281 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
2932 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
3005 The Monkey's Wrench Primo Levi 1978 Italian Italian
3638 So Tender Was Suleyken Siegfried Lenz 1955 German German
3638 Mitte Des Lebens Luise Rinser 1950 German German
3844 The Stone Raft José Saramago 1986 Portuguese Portuguese
3954 The Plant, The Well, The Angel Vassilis Vassilikos 1963 Greek Unknown
4612 Complete Short Stories D. H. Lawrence 1950 British English
4707 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter 1965 American English
5120 Нощем с белите коне Pavel Vezhinov 1957 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5349 Collected Stories Of V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett 1982 British English
6717 Stories of Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter 1801 Austrian German
7216 Tales Adalbert Stifter 1840 Austrian German
9827 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
10139 Dinner Along The Amazon Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
11582 Hitchhiking Gabriele Eckart 1986 German Unknown
11663 If The River Was Whiskey T. Coraghessan Boyle 1989 American English
11798 Cyteen C. J. Cherryh 1988 American English
12326 The Collected Stories Of Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant 1996 Canadian English
14202 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
15567 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
17162 Wit Margaret Edson 1993 American English
17162 What Is All This? Stephen Dixon 2010 American English
17162 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
17162 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17162 The Body Of The Soul Lyudmila Ulitskaya 2023 Russian Russian
17162 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
16972 Antes Do Baile Verde Lygia Fagundes tellles 1970 Brazilian Portuguese