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
14697 The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore 1976 British English
14697 Falstaff Robert Nye 1976 British English
14758 The Dyskolos Menander -316 Greek Ancient greek
14757 Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1917 British English
14770 The Tree Of Heaven May Sinclair 1917 British English
14769 The Symposium Xenophon 361 Greek Ancient greek
14775 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14773 Slippy Mc Gee Marie Conway Oemler 1917 American English
14779 The Peony Pavilion Tang Xianzu 1598 Chinese Chinese
14782 The Collected Poems Of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1918 British English
14786 The Beast in the Jungle Henry James 1903 American English
14787 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
14816 Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands Jorge Amado, Harriet de Onís 1966 Brazilian Portuguese
14787 Instead Of A Letter Diana Athill 1963 British English
14831 Listen To The Warm Rod McKuen 1967 American English
14868 Palm Of The Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1949 Japanese Japanese
14892 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
14883 Poems of Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1207 Persian Persian
14897 The Harp In The South Ruth Park 1948 Australian English
14897 Guys And Dolls Damon Runyon 1932 American English
14924 The End Of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955 American English
14925 Libro De Buen Amor Juan Ruiz 1330 Spanish Spanish
14936 Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1919 American English
14927 The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1918 American English
14951 Crimes Of The Heart Beth Henley 1978 American English
14944 Picnic William Inge 1953 American English
14949 Blood Wedding Federico García Lorca 1933 Spanish Spanish
14941 If Winter Comes A. S. M. Hutchinson 1921 British English
14957 Lucky Per Henrik Pontoppidan 1898 Danish Danish
14984 Let's Talk About Love Carl Wilson 2007 Canadian English
14984 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14984 Poor Things Alasdair Gray 1992 Scottish English
14984 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes 1997 British English
14984 Borrowed Time Paul Monette 1988 American English
14984 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 1987 Chilean Spanish
14984 Practical Magic Alice Hoffman 1995 American English
14984 Skinny Legs and All Tom Robbins 1990 American English
14984 A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham 1990 American English
14984 Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver 1990 American English
14984 Wild at Heart Barry Gifford 1990 American English
14984 Complete Stories Dorothy Parker 1995 American English
14984 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
14984 South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami 1992 Japanese Japanese
14984 The Infatuations Javier Marias 2011 Spanish Spanish
14984 Lila Marilynne Robinson 2014 American English
14984 Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat 2019 Haitian English
14984 Thomas the Rhymer Ellen Kushner 1990 American English
14984 Ombria in Shadow Patricia A. McKillip 2002 American English
14984 In The Garden Of Iden Kage Baker 1997 American English
14984 The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst 1994 British English
14984 The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 2011 Irish English
14984 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange 1975 American English
14984 The Antelope Wife Louise Erdrich 1998 American English
14984 The Chimes Anna Smaill 2015 New Zealand English
14984 The Human Factor Graham Greene 1978 British English
14984 From The Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant 1979 Canadian English
14984 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Haemin Sunim 2012 Korean Korean
14984 Me Elton John 2019 British English
14967 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14984 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard 1982 British English
14984 In The Hand Of The Goddess Tamora Pierce 1984 American English
14984 The World Is Not Enough Zoe Oldenbourg 1966 French French
14984 The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag 1992 American English
14984 Away Jane Urquhart 1993 Canadian English
14984 A Brightness Long Ago Guy Gavriel Kay 2019 Canadian English
14984 The 10,000 Doors Of January Alix E. Harrow 2019 American English
14984 The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez 2022 American English
14984 Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer 2008 American English
14984 Daughter Of Fortune Isabel Allende 1999 Chilean Spanish
14984 A Walk To Remember Nicholas Sparks 1999 American English
14984 The Mammoth Hunters Jean M. Auel 1985 American English
14984 Sailing Alone Around The Room Billy Collins 2001 American English
14984 Love, Loss, And What I Wore Ilene Beckerman 1995 American English
14984 The All Of It Jeannette Haien 1986 American English
14984 Shelley Richard Holmes 1974 British English
14984 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
14984 Lord Of Scoundrels Loretta Chase 1995 American English
14984 The Duke Who Didn't Courtney Milan 2020 American English
14984 You Had Me At Hola Alexis Daria 2020 American English
14984 Love In The Big City Sang Young Park 2019 Korean Korean
14984 Strange Weather In Tokyo Hiromi Kawakami 2001 Japanese Japanese
14984 The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 2002 German German
14984 Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell 2021 British English
14984 A Touch Of Darkness Scarlett St. Clair 2019 Unknown English
14984 Held Anne Michaels 2023 Unknown English
14984 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
15564 Dubin's Lives Bernard Malamud 1979 American English
15564 A Private Cathedral James Lee Burke 2020 American English
15601 A Few Figs From Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920 American English
15602 Kindred Of The Dust Peter B. Kyne 1920 American English
15607 Moon Calf Floyd Dell 1920 American English
15609 Foursquare Grace S. Richmond 1920 American English
15613 Chance Joseph Conrad 1913 British English
15613 Round The Corner Gilbert Cannan 1913 British English
15613 The Story Of Louie G. Oliver Onions 1913 British English
15631 Messer Marco Polo Donn Byrne 1921 American English
15632 Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1921 British English
15646 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15659 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15662 Black Oxen Gertrude Atherton 1923 American English
15663 The Collected Poems Of John Masefield John Masefield 1923 British English
15671 The Middle Of The Road Philip Gibbs 1923 British English
15672 The Love Story Of A Young Monk Wang Zengqi 2011 Chinese Chinese
15678 Lummox Fannie Hurst 1923 American English
15679 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15683 The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills Charles Bukowski American English
15683 Knots R.D. Laing Scottish English
15683 Blue Heaven Joe Keenan American English
15683 The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems Diane Wakoski American English
15683 Maybe Lillian Hellman American English
15683 Places Where I’ve Done Time William Saroyan American English
15683 The Oxford Book Of English Verse John Malcolm Brinnin Unknown English
15711 The Dim Lantern Temple Bailey 1925 American English
15722 The Diary Of A Parish Clerk Steen Steensen Blicher 1824 Danish Danish
15727 Love’s Labour’s Lost William Shakespeare 1598 British English
15729 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
15728 The Gift Of The Magi O. Henry 1905 American English
15737 Deliver Us From Love Suzanne Brogger 1976 Danish Danish
15747 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15743 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French