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
7019 Corinne Madame de Staël 1807 French French
7023 La Vida Exagerada De Martín Romaña Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1981 Peruvian Spanish
7052 A Summer To Remember Mary Balogh 2002 British English
7055 Golden Age Wang Xiaobo 1997 Chinese Chinese
7056 Some Thing Black Jacques Roubaud 1990 French French
7073 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7081 Hermina Sami Tchak 2003 French French
7085 Nothing Like the Sun Anthony Burgess 1964 British English
7086 The Virtuoso Margriet de Moor 1993 Dutch Dutch
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7115 Seven Years Peter Stamm 2009 Swiss German
7120 A Louis Zukofsky 1991 American English
7122 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7130 Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan 2002 Indonesian Indonesian
7135 To All The Boys I've Loved Before Jenny Han 2014 American English
7142 Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano 2023 American English
7153 Poems Adrienne Rich 1975 American English
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7165 Beijing Comrades Bei Tong 1998 Chinese English
7169 Two Captains Veniamin Kaverin 1940 Russian Russian
7169 The Confession Of A Child Of The Century Alfred de Musset 1836 French French
7177 The Asylum Seeker Arnon Grunberg 2003 Dutch Dutch
7179 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
7192 Heartstopper Alice Oseman 2018 British English
7198 Parallel Lives Phyllis Rose 1983 American English
7212 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
7216 Prison Of Love Diego de San Pedro 1485 Spanish Spanish
7216 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo 1483 Italian Italian
7216 Sonnets And Madrigals Michelangelo Buonarroti 1545 Italian Italian
7216 Rime Gaspara Stampa 1554 Italian Italian
7216 Poems Of Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella 1601 Italian Italian
7216 Poetry Antònio Ferreira 1558 Portuguese Portuguese
7216 Poems Of Fray Luis De León Fray Luis de León 1582 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Poems Of St. John Of The Cross St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
7216 Sonnets Luis de Góngora 1601 Spanish Spanish
7216 La Dorotea Lope de Vega 1632 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Knight Of Olmedo Lope de Vega 1620 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7216 Poems Of Henry Howard Henry Howard 1557 British English
7216 The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia Philip Sidney 1590 British English
7216 Astrophel And Stella Philip Sidney 1591 British English
7216 Poems Of Lord Brooke Fulke Greville Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1601 British English
7216 The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
7216 The Poems Of Sir Walter Raleigh Walter Ralegh 1600 British English
7216 Poems Of Michael Drayton Michael Drayton 1605 British English
7216 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
7216 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
7216 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
7216 The Poems Of Thomas Carew Thomas Carew 1640 British English
7216 The Poems Of Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace 1649 British English
7216 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7216 Plays Francis Beaumont 1607 British English
7216 Comedies, Tragedies, Poems George Chapman 1600 British English
7216 'Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford 1633 British English
7216 The Man Of Mode George Etherege 1676 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Collins William Collins 1746 British English
7216 The Beaux' Strategem George Farquhar 1707 British English
7216 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7216 Odes, Elegies, Sonnets Pierre Ronsard 1550 French French
7216 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7216 Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1643 French French
7216 Horace Pierre Corneille 1640 French French
7216 Rodogune Pierre Corneille 1644 French French
7216 School For Husbands Molière 1661 French French
7216 The Precious Ridiculous Molière 1659 French French
7216 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7216 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7216 Poems Of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1789 German German
7216 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7216 Hermann And Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1797 German German
7216 Venetian Epigrams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 German German
7216 West Eastern Divan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1819 German German
7216 Selected Poems Freidrich Hölderlin 1800 German German
7216 Last Letters Of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo 1802 Italian Italian
7216 Odes And The Graces Ugo Foscolo 1822 Italian Italian
7216 Rhymes And Rhythms Giosué Carducci 1899 Italian Italian
7216 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7216 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7216 The Red Notebook Benjamin Constant 1804 French French
7216 Atala François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1801 French French
7216 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7216 Poems Of Alfred De Vigny Alfred de Vigny 1837 French French
7216 Complete Poems Of Alfred De Musset Alfred de Musset 1857 French French
7216 The Chimeras Gerard de Nerval 1854 French French
7216 Sylvie Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
7216 Aurelia Gerard de Nerval 1855 French French
7216 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7216 Ursule Mirouet Honoré de Balzac 1842 French French
7216 On Love Stendhal 1822 French French
7216 Selected Poems Of Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine 1896 French French
7216 The Lady From The Sea Henrik Ibsen 1888 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 When We Dead Awaken Henrik Ibsen 1899 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7216 Death's Jest Book Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1850 British English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851 British English
7216 Nepenthe George Darley 1835 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7216 The Poems And Plays Of Thomas Wade Thomas Wade 1800 British English
7216 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7216 Poems Of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1853 British English
7216 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7216 Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1858 British English
7216 The Small House At Allington Anthony Trollope 1864 British English
7216 Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope 1864 British English
7216 The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1880 British English
7216 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
7216 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7216 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7216 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7216 Complete Plays Of Gilbert And Sullivan W. S. Gilbert 1938 British English
7216 Odes Coventry Patmore 1868 British English
7216 Plays Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
7216 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
7216 Complete Poems Ernest Dowson 1905 British English
7216 Weir Of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 1896 Scottish English
7216 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Morris William Morris 1868 British English
7216 The Earthly Paradise William Morris 1868 British English
7216 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German