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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
14985 The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee 2000 American English
14969 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14985 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard 1982 British English
14985 Dear Life Alice Munro 2012 Canadian English
14985 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
15567 Dubin's Lives Bernard Malamud 1979 American English
15594 Jennie Ralph G. Martin 1969 American English
15662 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15718 Holiday Stanley Middleton 1974 British English
15742 A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 1605 British English
15767 Punishment Without Revenge Lope de Vega 1631 Spanish Spanish
15916 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway 1936 American English
15916 The Hunting Gun Yasushi Inoue 1949 Japanese Japanese
15916 A Spy In The House Of Love Anaïs Nin 1954 French English
15916 From The Terrace John O'Hara 1958 American English
15916 The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett 1957 British English
16526 An Italian Straw Hat Eugène Labiche 1851 French French
15916 The Harsh Voice Rebecca West 1935 British English
15916 The Sheltered Life Ellen Glasgow 1932 American English
15916 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
15916 At Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept Elizabeth Smart 1945 Canadian English
16625 Le Dindon Georges Feydeau 1896 French French
16739 Exiles James Joyce 1918 Irish English
16686 Present Laughter Noel Coward 1942 British English
17163 Dusk James Salter 1988 American English
17163 The Great Man Kate Christensen 2007 American English
17163 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17163 Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin 2002 British English
17163 The Ice Storm Rick Moody 1994 American English
17163 The Soul of Kindness Elizabeth Taylor 1964 British English
17163 An American Dream Norman Mailer 1965 American English
17163 At Lady Molly's Anthony Powell 1957 British English
17163 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
17163 Puffball Fay Weldon 1980 British English
17163 The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley 1988 Australian English
17163 Tamara Drewe Posy Simmonds 2007 British English
17163 Betrayal Harold Pinter 1978 British English
17163 The Motherf**Ker With The Hat Stephen Adly Guirgis 2011 American English
17163 Anna In The Tropics Nilo Cruz 2003 American English
16839 Design For Living Noel Coward 1933 British English
16907 The Deep Blue Sea Terence Rattigan 1952 British English
17163 The End Of Vandalism Tom Drury 1994 American English
17163 Diana Of The Crossways George Meredith 1885 British English
17163 The Weight Of Water Anita Shreve 1997 American English
17163 The Age Of Grief Jane Smiley 1987 American English
17163 Bark Lorrie Moore 2014 American English
16919 A Flea In Her Ear Georges Feydeau 1907 French French
17163 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17163 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17163 Mildred Pierce James M. Cain 1941 American English
17163 The War Between The Tates Alison Lurie 1974 American English
17163 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
17163 The Story Of Zahra Hanan Al-Shaykh 1980 Lebanese Arabic
17013 The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
17163 The Love Object Edna O'Brien 2013 Irish English
16862 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17163 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
16808 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17163 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17163 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17163 Poems Of Sextus Propertius Propertius -29 Roman Latin
17163 The Good Life Jay McInerney 2006 American English
17163 Other People's Houses Abbi Waxman 2018 American English
17163 Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead 2012 American English
17163 Bad Summer People Robert Rosenblum Unknown Unknown
17163 The Arrangement Kiersten Modglin 2021 Unknown English
17163 Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough 2017 British English
16945 The Grasshopper Anton Chekhov 1892 Russian Russian
17163 The Wife, The Maid, And The Mistress Ariel Lawhon 2014 American English
17163 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17163 Men In Love Irvine Welsh 2025 Scottish English
17163 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
17163 Bodies And Souls Nancy Thayer 1983 American English