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
15755 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
15760 Punishment Without Revenge Lope de Vega 1631 Spanish Spanish
15756 I Live Leila Baalbaki 1958 Lebanese Arabic
15774 The Illusion Pierre Corneille 1636 French French
15795 The Sinners Yusuf Idris 1959 Egyptian Arabic
15797 Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 1954 American English
15764 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
15770 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
15769 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15776 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
15788 Mr. Skeffington Elizabeth 1940 British English
15791 The English Air D.E. Stevenson 1940 Scottish English
15798 Gypsy, Gypsy Rumer Godden 1940 British English
15768 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15808 Paul And Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1788 French French
15802 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
15819 Fielding's Folly Frances Parkinson Keyes 1940 American English
15879 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
15835 The Game Of Love And Chance Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1730 French French
15848 La Triologia Della Villegiatura Carlo Goldoni 1761 Italian Italian
15854 Five Tales Valeri Petrov 1953 Bulgarian Bulgarian
15865 Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
15866 The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats 1933 Irish English
15851 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian
15844 The Ill Made Knight T.H. White 1940 British English
15908 The Chronicles of Barsetshire Anthony Trollope 1855 British English
15908 Apu Ollontay Peru 1780 Peruvian Quechua
15908 Hagoromo Japan 1450 Japanese Japanese
15908 The Works of George Peele George Peele 1593 British English
15908 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
15908 The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1915 British English
15908 The Hunting Gun Yasushi Inoue 1949 Japanese Japanese
15908 A Spy In The House Of Love Anaïs Nin 1954 French English
15908 There Is Confusion Jessie Fauset 1924 American English
15908 Private Life Of An Indian Prince Mulk Raj Anand 1953 Indian English
15908 The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett 1957 British English
15908 The Dispute Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1744 French French
16500 The Prince Of Homburg Heinrich von Kleist 1821 German German
15908 Night And Morning Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1841 British English
16510 The Love Suicides At Sonezaki Chikamatsu Monzaemon 1703 Japanese Japanese
15908 The Lady Of The Lake Sir Walter Scott 1810 Scottish English
15908 The Harsh Voice Rebecca West 1935 British English
15908 My Dog Tulip J. R. Ackerley 1956 British English
15908 The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 1919 American English
15908 The Wilder Shores Of Love Lesley Blanch 1954 British English
15908 Letters Of John Keats John Keats 1848 British English
15908 The Perfect Stranger P. J. Kavanagh 1966 British English
15908 Judgment Night C. L. Moore 1952 American English
15908 The Wicked Pavilion Dawn Powell 1954 American English
15908 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15908 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
15908 Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson 1791 American English
15908 Hobomok Lydia Maria Child 1824 Hobomok English
15908 The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard 1862 American English
15908 Work Louisa May Alcott 1873 American English
15908 Summer Edith Wharton 1917 American English
15908 Show Boat Edna Ferber 1926 American English
15908 Bid Me To Live Hilda Doolittle 1960 British English
15908 Forse Che Sì Forse Che No Gabriele D'Annunzio 1910 Italian Italian
15908 The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar 1944 Austrian German
15908 Michael Robartes And The Dancer W.B. Yeats 1921 Irish English
15908 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15908 The Battle To The Weak Hilda Vaughan 1925 British English
15908 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15908 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
16506 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
15908 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963 British English
15908 At Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept Elizabeth Smart 1945 Canadian English
15908 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
16498 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
15885 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
15883 Ocean Of The Streams Of Story Somadeva 1063 Indian Sanskrit
16613 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
16533 The Forest Alexander Ostrovsky 1871 Russian Russian
16608 Salka Valka Halldor Laxness 1931 Icelandic Icelandic
16568 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
16527 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
16532 Return Of The Soul Tawfiq al-Hakim 1933 Egyptian Arabic
16543 A Gentleman In The Street Sherry Thomas 1975 Unknown Unknown
16535 The Steadfast Tin Soldier Hans Christian Andersen 1966 Danish Danish
16591 The Complete Works Of Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1623 British English
16595 The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
16576 Arthurian Romances Chrétien de Troyes 1180 French Old french
16606 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16599 Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 Scottish English
16610 David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 Scottish English
16617 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
16542 The Arthurian Vulgate anonymous 1210 French Old french
16598 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16725 Diary Of A Seducer Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
16692 The Daughter In Law D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
16727 Exiles James Joyce 1918 Irish English
16779 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16769 Tournament Shelby Foote 1949 American English
16730 Al Saghamat Yusuf al-Sibai 1955 Egyptian Arabic
16758 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym 1950 British English
16708 O Sztuce Miłości Erich Fromm 1956 German Polish
16629 100 Selected Poems E. E. Cummings 1954 American English
16660 Khosrow And Shirin Nezami Ganjavi 1180 Persian Persian
16775 Kādambarī Bānabhaṭṭa 650 Indian Sanskrit
16681 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
16825 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
16764 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
16743 Os Miseráveis 2 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
16735 Os Miseráveis 1 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
16702 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
16625 The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russian Russian
16655 They Went On Together Robert Nathan 1941 American English
16680 Flotsam Erich Maria Remarque 1939 German German
16759 My Theodosia Anya Seton 1941 American English
17150 Becoming a Man Paul Monette 1992 American English
17150 Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller 2003 American English
17150 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17150 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17150 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
17150 Twelve Bar Blues Patrick Neate 2001 British English
17150 The Destiny Waltz Gerda Charles 1968 British English
17150 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17150 The Old Jest Jennifer Johnston 1979 Irish English
17150 Silver City Maurice Leitch 1976 Irish English