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
7891 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7895 The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 2014 British English
7898 The Night Watch Sarah Waters 2006 British English
7900 Spreadeagle Kevin Killian 2012 American English
7903 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
7911 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
7941 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7944 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7950 My Story Kamala Das 1976 Indian English
7953 The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
7954 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7959 La Casa De La Fuerza Angélica Liddell 2009 Spanish Spanish
7962 Tenderwire Claire Kilroy 2006 Irish English
7967 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
7967 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7967 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
7967 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7967 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7980 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7986 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
7989 Sita Kate Millett 1976 American English
7995 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8009 Poems Of Elizabeth Jennings Elizabeth Jennings 1953 British English
8009 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
8009 100 Love Sonnets Pablo Neruda 1959 Chilean Spanish
8009 Still Life A. S. Byatt 1985 British English
8022 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
8076 Selected Poems Ferenc Juhasz 1954 Hungarian Hungarian
8076 Poems Of Léonie Adams Léonie Adams 1954 American English
8076 The Map Of Love Ahdaf Soueif 1999 Egyptian English
8076 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
8098 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
8107 The Amber Gods And Other Stories Harriet Prescott Spofford 1863 American English
8107 Constance Ring Amalie Skram 1885 Norwegian Norwegian
8107 Coonardoo Katherine Susannah Prichard 1929 Australian English
8107 The Dangerous Age Karin Michaelis 1910 Danish Danish
8107 The District Governor's Daughters Camilla Collett 1854 Norwegian Norwegian
8107 Hermione Hilda Doolittle 1927 American English
8107 Kelroy Rebecca Rush 1812 American English
8107 New Islands And Other Stories María Luisa Bombal 1939 Chilean Spanish
8107 Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1884 American English
8107 Weeds Edith Summers Kelley 1923 Canadian English
8107 Winter Wheat Mildred Walker 1944 American English
8144 Bathsheba Torgny Lindgren 1984 Swedish Swedish
8144 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8144 Night Circus And Other Stories Ursula Kovalyk 2014 Slovak Unknown
8144 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8164 To Catch A Bride Anne Gracie 2009 Australian English
8169 One Day In December Josie Silver 2018 British English
8173 Ladrón De Lunas Isaac Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8176 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8177 Cuando Ya No Importe Juan Carlos Onetti 1993 Uruguayan Spanish
8178 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
8184 Alberta empfängt einen Liebhaber Birgit Vanderbeke 2023 German German
8192 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8215 Stories In An Almost Classical Mode Harold Brodkey 1989 American English
8243 19 Knives Mark Anthony Jarman 1997 Canadian English
8252 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8268 The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston 2022 American English
8268 The Bodyguard Katherine Center 2022 American English
8277 Love And Summer William Trevor 2009 Irish English
8280 Poems Of Octavio Paz Octavio Paz 1957 Mexican Spanish
8280 Selected Poems Hilda Doolittle 1957 American English
8293 Fredman's Epistles Carl Michael Bellman 1999 Swedish Swedish
8330 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8336 Three Short Novels Kay Boyle 1958 American English
8345 The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 1991 American English
8347 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8352 The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat 1998 Haitian English
8355 Libertinagem Manuel Bandeira 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
8377 Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire 2011 American English
8377 Belong To Me Shayla Black 2011 American English
8386 Ella Cantaba Boleros Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1992 Cuban Spanish
8388 Our Souls At Night Kent Haruf 2015 American English
8397 The Stag's Leap Sharon Olds 2012 American English
8410 Lira Dos Vinte Anos Álvares De Azevedo 1853 Brazilian Portuguese
8425 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8443 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8445 Identity Milan Kundera 1998 Czech French
8460 Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me Richard Fariña 1966 American English
8459 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8473 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8473 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8473 No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe 1960 Nigerian English
8473 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
8473 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8494 Paula Isabel Allende 1994 Chilean Spanish
8503 Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 2005 American English
8506 Latitudes Of Melt Joan Clark 2000 Canadian English
8518 Shanghai Nights Juan Marsé 1993 Spanish Unknown
8534 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8542 Any Human Heart William Boyd 2002 British English
8577 Witchmark C. L. Polk 2018 Canadian English
8578 The Sorrow Of War Dương Thu Hương 1990 Vietnamese Vietnamese
8582 Cartas Cruzadas Darío Jaramillo 1995 Colombian Spanish
8583 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8594 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8601 No Me Esperen En Abril Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1994 Peruvian Spanish
8605 Hot Moon Mempo Giardinelli 1994 Argentinian Unknown
8607 Poems Of Roy Fuller Roy Fuller 1962 British English
8624 The Storm And Other Things Eugenio Montale 1978 Italian Italian
8625 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli 2000 American English
8627 Lovesick Ángeles Mastretta 1996 Mexican Spanish
8632 We All Want Impossible Things Catherine Newman 2022 American English
8636 Donde Las Mujeres Álvaro Pombo 1996 Spanish Spanish
8647 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8661 Lord Of Wicked Intentions Lorraine Heath 2013 American English
8671 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8675 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8698 Cry, Heart, But Never Break Glenn Ringtved 2001 Danish Danish
8717 La Cuadratura Del Círculo Álvaro Pombo 1995 Spanish Spanish
8726 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey 1965 Canadian English
8729 It Happened One Summer Tessa Bailey 2021 American English
8732 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8731 Hymns And Fragments Freidrich Hölderlin 1984 German German
8736 Marília De Dirceu Tomás Antônio Gonzaga 1792 Brazilian Portuguese
8738 Poems Of Sophia De Mello Breyner Sophia de Mello Breyner 1964 Portuguese Portuguese
8738 Poems Of Alvin Feinman Alvin Feinman 1964 American English
8750 The Leper Of Saint Giles Ellis Peters 1981 British English
8800 Time Regained Marcel Proust 1927 French French