The Greatest Books of All Time on Infidelity
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4630 | Heartburn | Nora Ephron | 1983 | American | English | |
| 4646 | The Blue Room | Georges Simenon | 1964 | French | French | |
| 4655 | Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me | Javier Marias | 1994 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 4783 | The Art Of Love | Ovid | 2 | Roman | Latin | |
| 4786 | Amphitryon | Plautus | -184 | Roman | Latin | |
| 4788 | The Way Of The World | William Congreve | 1700 | British | English | |
| 5122 | In The Night Of Time | Antonio Muñoz Molina | 2012 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 5225 | Riders | Jilly Cooper | 1985 | British | English | |
| 5317 | Faithless | Joyce Carol Oates | 2001 | American | English | |
| 5357 | Tropic Of Ruislip | Leslie Thomas | 1974 | British | English | |
| 5357 | 52 Pick Up | Elmore Leonard | 1974 | American | English | |
| 5413 | Reflections In A Golden Eye | Carson McCullers | 1941 | American | English | |
| 5486 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 5491 | The Slap | Christos Tsiolkas | 2008 | Australian | English | |
| 5696 | A Married Man | Piers Paul Read | 1979 | British | English | |
| 5735 | Anne Of The Thousand Days | Maxwell Anderson | 1950 | American | English | |
| 5844 | A Month In The Country | Ivan Turgenev | 1855 | Russian | Russian | |
| 5863 | A Modern Instance | William Dean Howells | 1882 | American | English | |
| 5904 | The Country Wife | William Wycherley | 1675 | British | English | |
| 5951 | Cigarettes | Harry Mathews | 1987 | American | English | |
| 5955 | A Good Man In Africa | William Boyd | 1981 | British | English | |
| 6005 | The Story Of My Wife | Milán Füst | 1942 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 6280 | Nothing | Henry Green | 1950 | British | English | |
| 6296 | Dream Story | Arthur Schnitzler | 1926 | Austrian | German | |
| 6490 | Happy Are The Happy | Yasmina Reza | 2013 | French | French | |
| 6503 | The End Of The Road | John Barth | 1958 | American | English | |
| 6508 | Memories of Rain | Sunetra Gupta | 1992 | Indian | English | |
| 6584 | Mrs. Caliban | Rachel Ingalls | 1982 | American | English | |
| 6686 | Pain | Zeruya Shalev | 2015 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 6695 | The Times Are Never So Bad | Andre Dubus | 1983 | American | English | |
| 6846 | Dirty Tricks | Michael Dibdin | 1991 | British | English | |
| 6850 | A Little Sun In Cold Water | Francoise Sagan | 1969 | French | French | |
| 6887 | The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy | 1955 | Irish | English | |
| 7022 | The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | British | English | |
| 7115 | Seven Years | Peter Stamm | 2009 | Swiss | German | |
| 7216 | The Mandrake | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1518 | Italian | Italian | |
| 7216 | The Man Of Mode | George Etherege | 1676 | British | English | |
| 7216 | Retreat From Love | Colette | 1936 | French | French | |
| 7216 | Count D'orgel's Ball | Raymond Radiguet | 1923 | French | French | |
| 7216 | The Desert Of Love | François Mauriac | 1925 | French | French | |
| 7216 | The Long View | Elizabeth Jane Howard | 1956 | British | English | |
| 7585 | Verity | Colleen Hoover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7588 | Commonwealth | Ann Patchett | 2016 | American | English | |
| 7753 | Another Marvelous Thing | Laurie Colwin | 1986 | American | English | |
| 7845 | The Accidental | Ali Smith | 2005 | British | English | |
| 8009 | Still Life | A. S. Byatt | 1985 | British | English | |
| 8107 | Constance Ring | Amalie Skram | 1885 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 8277 | Love And Summer | William Trevor | 2009 | Irish | English | |
| 9116 | Collected Short Stories | Edith Wharton | 1968 | American | English | |
| 9185 | Bruno's Dream | Iris Murdoch | 1969 | British | English | |
| 9233 | Jadviga Párnája | Pál Závada | 1996 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 9317 | My Husband | Rumena Bužarovska | 2020 | Macedonian | Macedonian | |
| 9626 | Three Women | Lisa Taddeo | 2019 | American | English | |
| 9744 | My Life As A Man | Philip Roth | 1974 | American | English | |
| 9777 | The Garden Of Eden | Ernest Hemingway | 1986 | American | English | |
| 9834 | Barney's Version | Mordecai Richler | 1997 | Canadian | English | |
| 9913 | The Past | Alan Pauls | 2003 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 9961 | Asylum | Patrick McGrath | 1996 | British | English | |
| 9965 | The Wife | Meg Wolitzer | 2003 | American | English | |
| 10016 | Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon | 1995 | American | English | |
| 10745 | The Collector Of Treasures | Bessie Head | 1977 | Botswanan | English | |
| 10752 | A Late Divorce | A. B. Yehoshua | 1982 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 10786 | Grown Ups | Marian Keyes | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 11437 | Man And Boy | Tony Parsons | 1999 | British | English | |
| 11573 | Men Without Women | Ernest Hemingway | 1927 | American | English | |
| 11582 | Family Pictures | Sue Miller | 1986 | American | English | |
| 11629 | May We Be Forgiven | A. M. Homes | 2012 | American | English | |
| 11630 | Everyman | Philip Roth | 2006 | American | English | |
| 11653 | All Of Us | Raymond Carver | 1996 | American | English | |
| 11663 | The New Yorker Stories | Ann Beattie | 2010 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It | Maile Meloy | 2009 | American | English | |
| 11663 | The Burning House | Ann Beattie | 1982 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Roger's Version | John Updike | 1986 | American | English | |
| 11851 | The Demon | Hubert Selby | 1976 | American | English | |
| 11895 | The Bird Artist | Howard Norman | 1994 | Canadian | English | |
| 12084 | Disappearing Acts | Terry McMillan | 1989 | American | English | |
| 12199 | I Racconti | Alberto Moravia | 1952 | Italian | Italian | |
| 12326 | My Son's Story | Nadine Gordimer | 1990 | South African | English | |
| 12326 | Outerbridge Reach | Robert Stone | 1992 | American | English | |
| 12326 | After Rain | William Trevor | 1996 | Irish | English | |
| 12326 | Toward The End Of Time | John Updike | 1997 | American | English | |
| 12515 | Changes | Ama Ata Aidoo | 1991 | Ghanaian | English | |
| 12576 | The Diaries | Alma Mahler | 1997 | Austrian | German | |
| 13055 | Chaos | Constance Fay | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13287 | Swimming Home | Deborah Levy | 2011 | British | English | |
| 13362 | The Unpossessed | Tess Slesinger | 1934 | American | English | |
| 13529 | Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz | 1957 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 13543 | Spartina | John Casey | 1989 | American | English | |
| 13543 | Three Junes | Julia Glass | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13600 | Les Civilisés | Claude Farrère | 1905 | French | French | |
| 13791 | The Lovers | Alice Ferney | 1993 | French | French | |
| 13818 | Don't Move | Margaret Mazzantini | 2001 | Italian | Italian | |
| 13967 | Standard Deviation | Katherine Heiny | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14019 | The Maples Stories | John Updike | 2009 | American | English | |
| 14068 | Will You Please be Quiet, Please? | Raymond Carver | 1976 | American | English | |
| 14092 | The Idea Of You | Robinne Lee | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14154 | The Vortex | Noel Coward | 1924 | British | English | |
| 14205 | The Women | Clare Booth Luce | 1936 | American | English | |
| 14212 | The Confession Of A Fool | August Strindberg | 1893 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 14232 | Fool For Love | Sam Shepard | 1983 | American | English | |
| 14232 | This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Diaz | 2012 | American | English | |
| 14332 | Europa | Tim Parks | 1997 | British | English | |
| 14403 | 28 Summers | Elin Hilderbrand | 2020 | American | English | |
| 14458 | The Hearts and Lives of Men | Fay Weldon | 1987 | British | English | |
| 14493 | The Early Stories | John Updike | 2003 | American | English | |
| 14587 | A Bed Of Roses | Walter Lionel George | 1911 | British | English | |
| 14650 | I Would Have Saved Them If I Could | Leonard Michaels | 1975 | American | English | |
| 14674 | The Genius | Theodore Dreiser | 1915 | American | English | |
| 14698 | The Song Of Songs | Hermann Sudermann | 1908 | German | German | |
| 14698 | The Doctor's Wife | Brian Moore | 1976 | British | English | |
| 14818 | Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands | Jorge Amado, Harriet de Onís | 1966 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 14953 | Crimes Of The Heart | Beth Henley | 1978 | American | English | |
| 14945 | If Winter Comes | A. S. M. Hutchinson | 1921 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned | Wells Tower | 2009 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Injury Time | Beryl Bainbridge | 1977 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Complete Stories | Dorothy Parker | 1995 | American | English | |
| 14985 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | 1992 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 14985 | The Children's Bach | Helen Garner | 1984 | Australian | English | |
| 14985 | The Forgotten Waltz | Anne Enright | 2011 | Irish | English | |
| 14985 | August | Tracy Letts | 2008 | American | English |