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
14984 The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee 2000 American English
14968 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14984 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard 1982 British English
14984 Dear Life Alice Munro 2012 Canadian English
14984 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
15561 Dubin's Lives Bernard Malamud 1979 American English
15588 Jennie Ralph G. Martin 1969 American English
15656 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15712 Holiday Stanley Middleton 1974 British English
15735 A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 1605 British English
15757 Punishment Without Revenge Lope de Vega 1631 Spanish Spanish
15901 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway 1936 American English
15901 The Hunting Gun Yasushi Inoue 1949 Japanese Japanese
15901 A Spy In The House Of Love Anaïs Nin 1954 French English
15901 From The Terrace John O'Hara 1958 American English
15901 The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett 1957 British English
16509 An Italian Straw Hat Eugène Labiche 1851 French French
15901 The Harsh Voice Rebecca West 1935 British English
15901 The Sheltered Life Ellen Glasgow 1932 American English
15901 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
15901 At Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept Elizabeth Smart 1945 Canadian English
16593 Le Dindon Georges Feydeau 1896 French French
16705 Exiles James Joyce 1918 Irish English
16654 Present Laughter Noel Coward 1942 British English
17122 Dusk James Salter 1988 American English
17122 The Great Man Kate Christensen 2007 American English
17122 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17122 Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin 2002 British English
17122 The Ice Storm Rick Moody 1994 American English
17122 The Soul of Kindness Elizabeth Taylor 1964 British English
17122 An American Dream Norman Mailer 1965 American English
17122 At Lady Molly's Anthony Powell 1957 British English
17122 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
17122 Puffball Fay Weldon 1980 British English
17122 The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley 1988 Australian English
17122 Tamara Drewe Posy Simmonds 2007 British English
17122 Betrayal Harold Pinter 1978 British English
17122 The Motherf**Ker With The Hat Stephen Adly Guirgis 2011 American English
17122 Anna In The Tropics Nilo Cruz 2003 American English
16803 Design For Living Noel Coward 1933 British English
16868 The Deep Blue Sea Terence Rattigan 1952 British English
17122 The End Of Vandalism Tom Drury 1994 American English
17122 Diana Of The Crossways George Meredith 1885 British English
17122 The Weight Of Water Anita Shreve 1997 American English
17122 The Age Of Grief Jane Smiley 1987 American English
17122 Bark Lorrie Moore 2014 American English
16882 A Flea In Her Ear Georges Feydeau 1907 French French
17122 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17122 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17122 Mildred Pierce James M. Cain 1941 American English
17122 The War Between The Tates Alison Lurie 1974 American English
17122 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
17122 The Story Of Zahra Hanan Al-Shaykh 1980 Lebanese Arabic
16984 The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
17122 The Love Object Edna O'Brien 2013 Irish English
16819 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17122 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
16771 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17122 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17122 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17122 Poems Of Sextus Propertius Propertius -29 Roman Latin
17122 The Good Life Jay McInerney 2006 American English
17122 Other People's Houses Abbi Waxman 2018 American English
17122 Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead 2012 American English
17122 Bad Summer People Robert Rosenblum Unknown Unknown
17122 The Arrangement Kiersten Modglin 2021 Unknown English
17122 Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough 2017 British English
16891 The Grasshopper Anton Chekhov 1892 Russian Russian
17122 The Wife, The Maid, And The Mistress Ariel Lawhon 2014 American English
17122 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17122 Men In Love Irvine Welsh 2025 Scottish English
17122 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
17122 Bodies And Souls Nancy Thayer 1983 American English