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
13600 And Their Children After Them Nicolas Mathieu 2018 French French
13703 The Mandelbaum Gate Muriel Spark 1965 British English
13716 The Just City Jo Walton 2015 Canadian English
13712 The Aerodrome Rex Warner 1941 British English
13716 I Love You, Beth Cooper Larry Doyle 2007 American English
13728 Riley Songs Of Summer James Whitcomb Riley 1883 American English
13734 The Spanish Love Deception Elena Armas 2021 Spanish English
13738 Song Never to End Nelson I. Wu 1959 Unknown Unknown
13742 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
13753 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
13759 The Art Of Loving Erich Fromm 1956 Unknown German
13772 The Third Angel Alice Hoffman 2008 American English
13788 Le Passeur De Lumière Bernard Tirtiaux 1993 French French
13789 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco 1993 Italian Italian
13791 The Lovers Alice Ferney 1993 French French
13802 The Blue And The Black Wang Lan 1963 Chinese Unknown
13812 Outside The Window Chiung Yao 1963 Chinese Chinese
13813 Vinterviken Mats Wahl 1993 Swedish Swedish
13814 The Bad Girl Mario Vargas Llosa 2006 Peruvian Spanish
13818 The Faithful Lover Massimo Bontempelli 1953 Italian Italian
13818 The Capri Letters Mario Soldati 1954 Italian Italian
13818 Un Gatto Attraversa La Strada Giovanni Comisso 1955 Italian Italian
13818 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13818 L'occhio Del Gatto Alberto Bevilacqua 1968 Italian Italian
13818 Le stelle fredde Guido Piovene 1952 Italian Italian
13818 Solitudes Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
13818 Passaggio In Ombra Mariateresa Di Lascia 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13818 Il Dolore Perfetto Ugo Riccarelli 2004 Italian Italian
13818 Il Viaggiatore Notturno Maurizio Maggiani 2005 Italian Italian
13818 Stabat Mater Tiziano Scarpa 2008 Italian Italian
13818 Il Desiderio Di Essere Come Tutti Francesco Piccolo 2013 Italian Italian
13818 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
13879 Black Sheep Georgette Heyer 1966 British English
13879 Love Me Back Merritt Tierce 2014 American English
13879 Ravenshoe Henry Kingsley 1861 British English
13886 Fred And Edie Jill Dawson 2000 British English
13941 The Siege Helen Dunmore 2001 British English
13941 The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker 2013 American English
13941 Saga Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan 2012 American English
13941 Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Bryan Lee O'Malley 2004 Canadian English
13991 Eureka Street Robert McLiam Wilson 1996 Irish English
13986 Scenes From Provincial Life William Cooper 1950 British English
13986 I'm Dying Laughing Christina Stead 1986 Australian English
14011 Emperor Of The Air Ethan Canin 1988 American English
14019 The Maples Stories John Updike 2009 American English
14020 The South Colm Toibin 1990 Irish English
14046 又見棕櫚, 又見棕櫚 Yu Lihua 1971 Chinese Chinese
14067 Sanin Mikhail Artsybashev 1907 Russian Russian
14072 The Girl Who Played Go Shan Sa 2001 Chinese French
14073 狂风 Sima Zhongyuan 1974 Chinese Unknown
14077 Kavanagh Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1849 American English
14092 The Idea Of You Robinne Lee 2017 American English
14099 Eben Holden Irving Bacheller 1900 American English
14106 L'éducation D'une Fée Didier van Cauwelaert 2000 French French
14107 The Game That Ended Us Fe Esperanza Trampe Filipino Filipino
14113 The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy 2019 British English
14122 Turtles All The Way Down John Green 2017 American English
14122 Lais Of Marie De France Marie de France 2010 French Anglo-norman
14152 The Rover Aphra Behn 1677 British English
14160 The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come John Fox Jr. 1903 American English
14176 Black Tickets Jayne Anne Phillips 1979 American English
14191 Private Lives Noel Coward 1930 British English
14195 Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens 1841 British English
14209 Awake And Sing! Clifford Odets 1935 American English
14212 Thank You and Other Poems Kenneth Koch 1962 American English
14212 The Confession Of A Fool August Strindberg 1893 Swedish Swedish
14232 Fool For Love Sam Shepard 1983 American English
14232 M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang 1988 American English
14232 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
14232 Bag Of Bones Stephen King 1998 American English
14232 The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern 2019 American English
14321 The Garden Of Allah Robert Hichens 1904 British English
14331 Europa Tim Parks 1997 British English
14347 The News from Paraguay Lily Tuck 2004 American English
14362 Theocritus, Bion And Moschus Andrew Lang 1889 Scottish English
14368 The Beloved Vagabond William John Locke 1906 British English
14376 The Complete Poetical Works Of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1890 American English
14388 The Queen's Quair Maurice Hewlett 1904 British English
14389 Early Novels and Stories James Baldwin 1984 American English
14389 Black But Comely George Whyte-Melville 1879 British English
14398 Writers & Lovers Lily King 2020 American English
14402 28 Summers Elin Hilderbrand 2020 American English
14406 The Weavers Sir Gilbert Parker 1907 Canadian English
14410 The Anti Death League Kingsley Amis 1966 British English
14425 The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes Tatiana Țîbuleac 2016 Moldovan Romanian
14427 The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1907 British English
14448 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14457 Collected Stories of Peter Taylor Peter Taylor 1969 American English
14457 The Hearts and Lives of Men Fay Weldon 1987 British English
14456 A Chair On The Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1907 British English
14488 A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1909 American English
14492 The Early Stories John Updike 2003 American English
14495 Farewell To My Concubine Lilian Lee 1985 Chinese Chinese
14491 Every Summer After Carley Fortune 2022 Canadian English
14498 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14519 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
14519 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald 1989 American English
14519 Memoir From Antproof Case Mark Helprin 1995 American English
14547 Queenie Candice Carty-Williams 2019 British English
14549 April Witch Majgull Axelsson 1997 Swedish Swedish
14553 Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets Don Paterson 2010 British English
14553 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14586 The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1911 American English
14586 A Bed Of Roses Walter Lionel George 1911 British English
14598 The Cost Of Hope Amanda Bennett 2012 American English
14598 The Hairdresser Of Harare Tendai Huchu 2010 Zimbabwean English
14617 The Story Of Hay Bo Yi Shu 1988 Chinese Unknown
14619 City Of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert 2019 American English
14623 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916 Spanish Spanish
14625 Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon 1913 French French
14627 Collected Poems By Alfred Noyes Alfred Noyes 1913 British English
14629 The Elm Tree On The Mall Anatole France 1905 French French
14643 Sinister Street Compton Mackenzie 1913 British English
14644 Love And Sleep Sean O'Reilly 2002 Unknown Unknown
14645 Fin De Siècle Splendor Chu Tʽien-wen 1990 Chinese Chinese
14647 The Woman Thou Gavest Me Hall Caine 1913 British English
14649 The Green Knight Iris Murdoch 1993 British English
14673 The Genius Theodore Dreiser 1915 American English
14697 The Song Of Songs Hermann Sudermann 1908 German German