The Greatest Books of All Time on Love

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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
6004 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6004 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
6004 A Love Affair Dino Buzzati 1963 Italian Italian
6004 Mes Heures Perdues Félix Arvers 1833 French French
6004 My Feminine Brother Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6004 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6004 Pylon William Faulkner 1935 American English
6004 Seven Gothic Tales Karen Blixen 1934 Danish Danish
6004 Sonnets Louise Labé 1556 French French
6004 The Sailor From Gibraltar Marguerite Duras 1952 French French
6004 Three Women Robert Musil 1924 Austrian German
6079 John Keats Robert Gittings 1968 British English
6082 The Lamplighter Maria Susanna Cummins 1854 American English
6088 An Ice Cream War William Boyd 1982 British English
6090 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6105 Poems Of Mr. Pieter C. Hooft P. C. Hooft 1642 Dutch Dutch
6105 Nagelaten Gedichten Paul van Ostaijen 1928 Belgian Dutch
6127 Selected Poems, 1965-1975 Margaret Atwood 1976 Canadian English
6139 Tear This Heart Out Ángeles Mastreta 1985 Mexican Spanish
6148 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6151 The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet David Mitchell 2010 British English
6154 Women As Lovers Elfriede Jelinek 1975 Austrian German
6157 Pawn In Frankincense Dorothy Dunnett 1969 British English
6182 Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott 1821 British English
6197 Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland 1999 American English
6200 The Elegies Of Oxopetra Odysseas Elytis 1991 Greek Greek
6228 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6235 Tar Baby Toni Morrison 1981 American English
6252 The Vortex José Eustacio Rivera 1924 Colombian Spanish
6260 Give Me Back My Mountains Albert Wass 1971 Hungarian Hungarian
6264 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 2001 British English
6265 Burning Patience Antonio Skármeta 1985 Chilean Spanish
6272 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
6276 The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan 2013 Australian English
6279 Nothing Henry Green 1950 British English
6293 The Ringed Castle Dorothy Dunnett 1971 British English
6303 Les Lieux De Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras 1977 French French
6329 The Wandering Unicorn Manuel Mujica Lainez 1965 Argentinian Spanish
6332 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6351 My Brother Michael Mary Stewart 1959 British English
6357 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6365 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 British English
6362 Girlfriend In A Coma Douglas Coupland 1998 Canadian English
6375 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6381 Married Love Marie Stopes 1918 British English
6404 Dark Prince Christine Feehan 1999 American English
6410 Bluets Maggie Nelson 2009 American English
6419 Collected Poems Dalia Rabikovitch 2009 Israeli Hebrew
6432 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry 1917 French French
6441 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud 1958 American English
6446 The Bridge Of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6450 The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen 2001 Norwegian Norwegian
6465 Red Azalea Anchee Min 1993 Chinese English
6477 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 2004 British English
6490 Happy Are The Happy Yasmina Reza 2013 French French
6491 Neither The Sea Nor The Sand Gordon Honeycombe 1969 British English
6493 The Story Of Avis Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877 American English
6501 Cosima Grazia Deledda 1937 Italian Italian
6504 The Coquette Hannah Webster Foster 1797 American English
6508 Memories of Rain Sunetra Gupta 1992 Indian English
6530 The Hating Game Sally Thorne 2016 Australian English
6539 Deliver Me From Eva Paul Bailey 2007 British Unknown
6558 Hernani Victor Hugo 1830 French French
6564 Avalanche Blaga Dimitrova 1980 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6565 Candy Mian Mian 2000 Chinese Chinese
6568 The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Ann Brashares 2001 American English
6584 Mrs. Caliban Rachel Ingalls 1982 American English
6606 Pavilion Of Women Pearl S. Buck 1946 American English
6623 Looking For The Possible Dance A. L. Kennedy 1993 British English
6623 The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm 1993 German German
6629 Checkmate Dorothy Dunnett 1975 British English
6629 Csárdás Diane Pearson 1975 British English
6623 A General Theory Of Love Thomas Lewis 2000 American English
6637 Savannah Bay Marguerite Duras 1983 French French
6650 Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake Sarah MacLean 2010 American English
6651 Tratado das Paixões da Alma António Lobo Antunes 1990 Portuguese Portuguese
6662 You Caroline Kepnes 2014 American English
6663 Preparation for the Next Life Atticus Lish 2014 American English
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6684 Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli 2015 American English
6686 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
6695 The Times Are Never So Bad Andre Dubus 1983 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6711 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel 2006 American English
6736 The Women On The Island Ho Ahn Thai 1991 Vietnamese Vietnamese
6746 A Matter Of Feeling Janine Boissard 1985 French French
6760 Bold As Love Gwyneth Jones 2001 British English
6762 The World's Illusion Jakob Wassermann 1920 German German
6761 Difficult Loves Italo Calvino 1958 Italian Italian
6764 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
6766 Notes Of A Desolate Man Chu Tʽien-wen 1994 Taiwanese Chinese
6767 Doña Perfecta Benito Pérez Galdós 1876 Spanish Spanish
6792 La Tejedora De Coronas Germán Espinosa 1982 Colombian Spanish
6815 The Little Minister J. M. Barrie 1891 Scottish English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
6821 Tales Of The Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
6821 Tracy's Tiger William Saroyan 1951 American English
6839 The Awakening Of Helena Ritchie Margaret Deland 1906 American English
6841 Rapture Carol Ann Duffy 2005 British English
6850 A Little Sun In Cold Water Francoise Sagan 1969 French French
6865 Loupežník Karel Čapek 1988 Czech Czech
6867 Collected Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
6870 The Mother Grazia Deledda 1920 Italian Italian
6873 The End of the Story Lydia Davis 1995 American English
6873 Love's Work Gillian Rose 1995 British English
6891 Bared To You Sylvia Day 2012 American English
6895 O Guarani José de Alencar 1857 Brazilian Portuguese
6901 Raymond And Hannah Stephen Marche 2005 Canadian English
6903 Selected Poems II Margaret Atwood 1987 Canadian English
6914 Théresè And Isabelle Violette Leduc 1966 French French
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
6929 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
6954 We All Love Glenda So Much And Other Tales Julio Cortazar 1980 Argentinian Spanish
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
6987 Just Listen Sarah Dessen 2006 American English
6992 Hallucinating Foucault Patricia Duncker 1996 British English
6996 Dina's Book Herbjørg Wassmo 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
7001 Collected Poems Jack Gilbert 2012 American English
7016 Original Bliss A. L. Kennedy 1997 British English