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
17150 The Chymical Wedding Lindsay Clarke 1989 British English
17150 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17150 Comfort Me with Apples Ruth Reichl 2001 American English
17150 Airships Barry Hannah 1978 American English
17150 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
17150 Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
17150 I Loved You More Tom Spanbauer 2014 American English
17150 The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons 1997 American English
17150 The Porcelain Dove Delia Sherman 1993 American English
17150 Something Rich and Strange Patricia A. McKillip 1984 American English
17150 The Innamorati Midori Snyder 1998 American English
17150 Lifelode Jo Walton 2009 British English
17150 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17150 Owl in Love Patrice Kindl 1993 American English
17150 The Child Garden Geoff Ryman 1989 British English
17150 Auē Becky Manawatu 2019 New Zealander English
17150 As The Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong 2009 New Zealander English
17150 Worm Loves Worm J.J Austrian 2016 American English
17150 The Suffragette Scandal Courtney Milan 2014 American English
17150 A Girl Like Her Talia Hibbert 2018 British English
17150 Savor The Moment Nora Roberts 2010 American English
17150 The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics Olivia Waite 2019 American English
17150 Hate To Want You Alisha Rai 2017 American English
17150 Love Wins Debbie Cenziper 2016 American English
17150 A Spell Of Winter Helen Dunmore 1995 British English
17150 When I Lived In Modern Times Linda Grant 2000 British English
17150 The Idea Of Perfection Kate Grenville 1999 Australian English
17150 Shards Of Honour Lois McMaster Bujold 1986 American English
17150 The Rowan Anne McCaffrey 1990 American English
17150 Love And Longing In Bombay Vikram Chandra 1997 Indian English
17150 Delhi Khushwant Singh 1990 Indian English
17150 The Secret City Hugh Walpole 1919 British English
17150 The Lost Girl D. H. Lawrence 1920 British English
17150 Portrait Of Clare Francis Brett Young 1927 British English
17150 Without My Cloak Kate O'Brien 1931 Irish English
17150 The Root And The Flower L. H. Myers 1935 British English
17150 The Voyage Charles Morgan 1940 British English
17150 At Lady Molly's Anthony Powell 1957 British English
17150 Jerusalem The Golden Margaret Drabble 1967 British English
17150 The Bird Of Paradise Lily Powell 1970 British Unknown
17150 A Season In The West Piers Paul Read 1988 British English
17150 The Lotus Eaters Tatjani Soli 2010 American English
17150 The Deadman’s Pedal Alan Warner 2012 Scottish English
17150 Death In Andes Mario Vargas Llosa 1993 Peruvian Spanish
17150 Eucalyptus Murray Bail 1998 Australian English
17150 The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu Tom Lin 2021 American English
17150 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
17150 Her Last Flight Beatriz Williams 2020 American English
17150 I've Been A Woman Sonia Sanchez 1978 American English
17150 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17150 The Selected Poems Of Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni 2003 American English
17150 Directed By Desire June Jordan 2005 American English
17150 Whatever Happened To Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins 2016 American English
17150 Wizard And Glass Stephen King 1997 American English
17150 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor 2004 American English
17150 Delirium Laura Restrepo 2004 Colombian Spanish
17150 Watchtower Elizabeth A. Lynn 1979 American English
17150 Godmother Night Rachel Pollack 1996 American English
17150 The Facts Of Life Graham Joyce 2002 British English
17150 Trouble The Saints Alaya Dawn Johnson 2020 American English
17150 The Palace Of Eternity Bob Shaw 1969 British English
17150 The Dancers At The End Of Time Michael Moorcock 1972 British English
16781 Dragonwyck Anya Seton 1944 American English
17150 A Jest Of God Margaret Laurence 1966 Canadian English
17150 The Nice And The Good Iris Murdoch 1968 British English
17150 Forty Seventeen Frank Moorhouse 1988 Australian English
17150 Reading Turgenev William Trevor 1991 Irish English
17150 On A Sunbeam Tillie Walden 2018 American English
17150 Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao 2021 Canadian English
17023 Domnisoara Christina. Sarpele Mircea Eliade 1936 Romanian Romanian
17150 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
17150 Summer Sisters Judy Blume 1998 American English
17150 The Luxe (Luxe Series, Book 1) Anna Godbersen 2007 American English
17150 I Hope This Reaches Her In Time r.h. Sin 2017 American English
17150 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
17150 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17150 She Felt Like Feeling Nothing r.h. Sin 2018 American English
17150 Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass Lana Del Rey 2020 American English
17150 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English
17150 Love Her Wild Atticus 2017 Canadian English
17150 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17150 Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage 2003 American English
17150 The Effect Lucy Prebble 2012 British English
17150 Torch Song Trilogy Harvey Fierstein 1982 American English
17150 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez 2020 American English
17150 Love! Valour! Compassion! Terrence McNally 1995 American English
16853 Sweet Bird Of Youth Tennessee Williams 1959 American English
16887 The Time Of Your Life William Saroyan 1939 American English
17150 The Motherf**Ker With The Hat Stephen Adly Guirgis 2011 American English
16980 You Can't Take It With You George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart 1936 American English
17150 Talley's Folly Lanford Wilson 1979 American English
17150 Anna In The Tropics Nilo Cruz 2003 American English
16833 Design For Living Noel Coward 1933 British English
16894 The Deep Blue Sea Terence Rattigan 1952 British English
16915 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1955 Australian English
17150 Dancing At Lughnasa Brian Friel 1990 Irish English
17150 Castle In The Air Diana Wynne Jones 1990 British English
17150 Bad Marie Marcy Dermansky 2010 American English
17099 Terminal Innocence Klaus Rifbjerg 1958 Danish Unknown
17150 House Of Sky And Breath Sarah J. Maas 2022 American English
17150 The Deemster Hall Caine 1887 British English
17150 Scenes Of Clerical Life George Eliot 1858 British English
17150 The Atonement Of Leam Dundas Eliza Lynn Linton 1876 British English
17150 Diana Of The Crossways George Meredith 1885 British English
17150 Under Two Flags Ouida 1867 British English
17150 It Is Never Too Late To Mend Charles Reade 1856 British English
17150 Peg Woffington And Christie Johnstone Charles Reade 1853 British English
17150 Hard Cash Charles Reade 1863 British English
17150 Virginia Of Virginia Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy 1888 American English
17150 On The Face Of The Waters Flora Annie Steel 1896 British English
17150 A Breath Of Snow And Ashes Diana Gabaldon 2005 American English
17150 An Echo In The Bone Diana Gabaldon 2009 American English
17150 Dragonfly In Amber Diana Gabaldon 1992 American English
17150 Drums Of Autumn Diana Gabaldon 1996 American English
17150 Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone Diana Gabaldon 2021 American English
17150 The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon 2001 American English
17150 Voyager Diana Gabaldon 1993 American English
17150 Written In My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon 2014 American English
17150 The Rest Of Life Mary Gordon 1993 American English
17150 The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward 2018 British English