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
11026 Four Novels Marguerite Duras 1985 French French
11038 The Riders Tim Winton 1994 Australian English
11050 The Lone Pilgrim Laurie Colwin 1981 American English
11056 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11071 Girls In Love Jacqueline Wilson 1997 British English
11083 Insomniac City Bill Hayes 2017 American English
11083 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11110 The Quantum Rose Catherine Asaro 2000 American English
11090 Gesammelte Erzählungen Kurt Kusenberg 1961 German German
11090 Layli And Majnun Nezami Ganjavi 1188 Persian Persian
11130 The Ancient Future Trilogy Traci Harding 1996 Australian English
11165 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11165 Travels Yehuda Amichai 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11192 Love And Sleep John Crowley 1994 American English
11211 The Lily Of The Valley Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
11215 Book Of My Mother Albert Cohen 1954 French French
11216 Memorial Bryan Washington 2020 American English
11243 Liberty Or Love! Robert Desnos 1929 French French
11252 Éthiopiques Léopold Sédar Senghor 1956 Senegalese French
11266 Blanca & Roja Anna-Marie McLemore 2018 American English
11266 Song Of Blood & Stone L. Penelope 2018 American English
11254 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11254 Frida Hayden Herrera 1983 American English
11254 Loving In The War Years Cherríe Moraga 1983 American English
11273 Half A Lifelong Romance Eileen Chang 1948 Chinese Chinese
11275 In The Storm Of Roses Ingeborg Bachmann 1987 Austrian German
11310 Tarry Flynn Patrick Kavanagh 1948 Irish English
11336 Kleinstadtnovelle Ronald M. Schernikau 1980 German German
11339 The Incendiaries R. O. Kwon 2018 American English
11343 Heartwork Solveig von Schoultz 1984 Finnish Swedish
11355 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds In This Strange World Elif Shafak 2019 Turkish English
11362 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11364 La Fin D'amor Jean-Claude Marol French Unknown
11364 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
11364 Rien Que L'amour Lucien Becker French French
11364 The Jasmine Of The Lovers Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī Persian Persian
11364 Un Feu Au Cœur Du Vent Zéno Bianu French French
11391 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11391 Elaine's Book Jay Wright 1988 American Unknown
11391 Love Me Tender Constance Debré 2020 French French
11404 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11427 Gods Of Jade And Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2019 Mexican English
11435 Man And Boy Tony Parsons 1999 British English
11453 Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1921 American English
11453 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11453 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin 1928 American English
11453 Years of Grace Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 American English
11443 Various Miracles Carol Shields 1985 Canadian English
11468 The Real Charlotte Edith Somerville, Violet Florence Martin 1894 Irish English
11470 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11479 Jessica Bryce Courtenay 1998 Australian English
11480 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11493 Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson 2019 American English
11505 The White Masai Corinne Hofmann 1998 Swiss German
11507 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11516 If You Could Be Mine Sara Farizan 2013 Iranian English
11527 Orpheus and Eurydice Unknown -28 Unknown Ancient greek
11546 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 1922 Chilean Spanish
11546 Old St Paul's William Harrison Ainsworth 1841 British English
11546 The Romance Of War James Grant 1846 Scottish English
11546 Rory O'more Samuel Lover 1837 Irish English
11543 Humiliated And Insulted Fyodor Dostoevsky 1861 Russian Russian
11546 The Poems Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845 American English
11546 Idyls Of The King Alfred Tennyson 1859 British English
11546 Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen 1966 Canadian English
11569 Ghostwritten David Mitchell 1999 British English
11572 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
11580 Copper Crown Lane Von Herzen 1986 American English
11580 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11580 The Mixquiahuala Letters Ana Castillo 1986 American English
11580 The Threshing Floor Barbara Burford 1986 British English
11599 The Course Of The Heart M. John Harrison 1992 British English
11603 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11632 Catalina Elisa Mujica 1952 Colombian Spanish
11641 Noggin John Corey Whaley 2014 American English
11651 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11651 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11651 The Rest Of The Way J. D. McClatchy 1990 American English
11651 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11661 War And Turpentine Stefan Hertmans 2013 Belgian Dutch
11661 The Boy In The Moon Ian Brown 2009 Canadian English
11661 Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It Maile Meloy 2009 American English
11794 The Bride Collector Ted Dekker 2010 American English
11661 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
11661 Bad Blood James Jones 1981 American Unknown
11661 World Without End Francine du Plessix Gray 1981 American English
11661 Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1 Michael Holroyd 1988 British English
11811 Lover's Choice Becky Birtha 1987 American English
11811 Rich In Love Josephine Humphreys 1987 American English
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11859 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11880 Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2021 French French
11888 Boleros Jay Wright 1991 American English
11893 The Bird Artist Howard Norman 1994 Canadian English
11882 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11888 The Mac Gregor Brides Nora Roberts 1997 American English
11899 The Book Of Ruth Jane Hamilton 1988 American English
11899 Loving And Giving Molly Keane 1988 Irish English
11899 Nora Brenda Maddox 1988 British English
11899 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
11899 Twilight And Other Stories Shulamith Hareven 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11899 The Ultraviolet Sky Alma Luz Villanueva 1988 American English
11899 The Works Of Alice Dunbar Nelson Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988 American English
11939 Vera Stacy Schiff 1999 American English
12013 John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856 British English
12034 When The Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore 2016 American English
12037 The Love Story Of The Century Märta Tikkanen 1978 Finnish Swedish
12047 Landing Light Don Paterson 2003 British English
12048 The Visit Of The Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
12083 The Big Mama Stories Shay Youngblood 1989 American English
12083 Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 1989 American English
12083 Tahuri Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 1989 New Zealand English
12103 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12130 The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh 2000 Indian English
12172 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
12187 American Street Ibi Zoboi 2017 American English
12187 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12198 I Racconti Alberto Moravia 1952 Italian Italian
12200 Ninfa Plebea Domenico Rea 1992 Italian Italian
12200 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian