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
7216 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7216 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7216 Tales Gottfried Keller 1856 Swiss German
7216 Complete Poems Heinrich Heine 1856 German German
7216 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7216 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7216 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7216 The Storm Aleksandr Ostrovsky 1860 Russian Russian
7216 What Is To Be Done? Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1863 Russian Russian
7216 Specimen Days Walt Whitman 1882 American English
7216 Poems Of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1860 American English
7216 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7216 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7216 Poems Of Trumbull Stickney Trumbull Stickney 1905 American English
7216 Maia Gabriele D'Annunzio 1925 Italian Italian
7216 Orphic Songs Dino Campana 1914 Italian Italian
7216 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7216 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7216 My Voice Because Of You Pedro Salinas 1933 Spanish Spanish
7216 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7216 Poems Of Carles Riba Carles Riba 1943 Spanish Catalan
7216 Retreat From Love Colette 1936 French French
7216 The Infernal Machine And Other Works Jean Cocteau 1934 French French
7216 Poems Of Paul éluard Paul Éluard 1920 French French
7216 Count D'orgel's Ball Raymond Radiguet 1923 French French
7216 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French
7216 Poems Of Pierre Jean Jouve Pierre-Jean Jouve 1925 French French
7216 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7216 The Desert Of Love François Mauriac 1925 French French
7216 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7216 Coup De Grace Marguerite Yourcenar 1939 French French
7216 The Well Beloved Thomas Hardy 1897 British English
7216 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7216 Poems Of D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
7216 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7216 Alexandrian Songs Mikhail Kuzmin 1906 Russian Russian
7216 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
7216 Selected Poems Boris Pasternak 1943 Russian Russian
7216 Perched On Nothing's Branch Attila József 1932 Hungarian Hungarian
7216 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7216 The Nightingale Sholem Aleichem 1917 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Poems Of Moshe Leib Halpern Moshe-Leib Halpern 1919 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Poems Of Mani Leib Mani Leib 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Shirot Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
7216 Poems Of Rubén Dário Rubén Dário 1896 Nicaraguan Spanish
7216 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7216 Poems Of Vachel Lindsay Vachel Lindsay 1913 American English
7216 Last Poems Elinor Wylie 1943 American English
7216 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7216 Poems Of Allen Tate Allen Tate 1930 American English
7216 The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 1942 American English
7216 The Rise Of David Levinsky Abraham Cahan 1917 American English
7216 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7216 H. M. Pulham, Esquire John P. Marquand 1941 American English
7216 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7216 Permit Me Voyage James Agee 1934 American English
7216 Children Of Darkness Edwin Justus Mayer 1929 American Unknown
7216 A Princesa De Clèves Madame de La Fayette 1678 French French
7216 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7216 The Journal Of Albion Moonlight Kenneth Patchen 1941 American English
7216 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7216 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7216 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7216 The Fortnight In September R. C. Sherriff 1931 British English
7216 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7563 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7565 Selected Poems Frank O'Hara 1974 American English
7569 All Fires The Fire Julio Cortazar 1966 Argentinian Spanish
7574 The Fair Maid Of Perth Sir Walter Scott 1828 Scottish English
7576 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
7581 The Midnight Hour Brenda Jackson 2004 American English
7585 Verity Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
7593 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7606 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7611 Winter In Lisbon Antonio Muñoz Molina 1987 Spanish Spanish
7612 Aunt Julia And The Script Writer Mario Vargas Llosa 1977 Peruvian Spanish
7623 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7646 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7649 Jalna Mazo de La Roche 1927 Canadian English
7655 A Better World Than This Marie Joseph 1982 British English
7656 Poems Of Robert Lowell Robert Lowell 1946 American English
7663 East Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 American English
7672 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7677 The Soft Side Henry James 1900 British English
7684 Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 American English
7697 It Happened One Autumn Lisa Kleypas 2005 American English
7717 Collected Poems Herman Melville 1947 American English
7717 Three Tragedies Federico García Lorca 1947 Spanish Spanish
7730 Verzameld Werk: Gedichten Martinus Nijhoff 1990 Dutch Dutch
7737 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
7745 Désirée Annemarie Selinko 1951 Austrian German
7753 Another Marvelous Thing Laurie Colwin 1986 American English
7756 One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine 1948 French French
7754 Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi 2011 British English
7772 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7772 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
7772 Summer And Smoke Tennessee Williams 1948 American English
7766 Mating In Captivity Esther Perel 2006 Belgian English
7791 Weetzie Bat Francesca Lia Block 1989 American English
7795 The Rebel Angels Robertson Davies 1981 Canadian English
7807 Lick Kylie Scott 2013 Australian English
7812 The Blind Side of the Heart Julia Franck 2007 German German
7812 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7820 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
7820 Five Novels Ronald Firbank 1949 British English
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7844 If Only It Were True Marc Levy 1999 French French
7848 The Darkangel Meredith Ann Pierce 1982 American English
7858 Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser 1911 American English
7861 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7861 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7861 The Rehearsal Jean Anouilh 1950 French French
7861 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7872 Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967 British English
7877 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7887 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
7888 The Courtesan's Daughter Claudia Dain 2007 American English