The Greatest Books of All Time on Love

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

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.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17159 Under Heaven Guy Gavriel Kay 2010 Canadian English
17159 Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente 2009 American English
17159 The Silent Land Graham Joyce 2010 British English
17159 Tales From Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett 1989 American English
17159 Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Danielle Evans 2010 American English
17159 Submergence J. M. Ledgard 2011 British English
17159 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17159 War For The Oaks Emma Bull 1987 American English
17159 Hell Is The Absence Of God Ted Chiang 2001 American English
17159 Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death James Tiptree Jr. 1973 American English
17159 We Were Out Of Our Minds With Joy David Marusek 1995 American English
17159 Love Is The Drug Alaya Dawn Johnson 2014 American English
17159 Death's Master Tanith Lee 1979 British English
17159 Outside The Dog Museum Jonathan Carroll 1991 American English
17159 Memoirs Of A Master Forger William Heaney 2008 British English
17159 Be Here To Love Me At The End Of The World Sasha Fletcher 2021 American English
16893 The Wit Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
17159 Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 2022 British English
17159 The Vampire Diaries L. J. Smith 1991 American English
17159 Миличко мое тефтерче! Vesela Flamburari 2009 Bulgarian Bulgarian
16913 The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1908 Irish English
17159 Dear John Nicholas Sparks 2006 American English
16967 The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
17159 The Choice Nicholas Sparks 2007 American English
17159 The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks 2008 American English
17159 Nights In Rodanthe Nicholas Sparks 2002 American English
17159 The Wedding Nicholas Sparks 2003 American English
17159 Vision In White Nora Roberts 2009 American English
17159 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
16969 Orpheus Jean Cocteau 1926 French French
16998 The Well Cradle Zeami Motokiyo 1430 Japanese Japanese
17141 The Best Mayor, The King Lope de Vega 1635 Spanish Spanish
17159 Koko's Kitten Francine Patterson 1985 American English
17159 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17159 Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros 1991 American English
17159 Discerner Of Hearts Olive Senior 1995 Canadian English
17159 Trumpet Jackie Kay 1998 Scottish English
17159 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009 Pakistani English
17159 How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 1997 British English
17159 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17159 Gardening For Love Elizabeth Lawrence 1981 American English
17159 The Rainbabies Laura Krauss Melmed 1992 American English
17159 Artful Ali Smith 2012 British English
17159 A Woman, A Man, And Two Kingdoms Francis Steegmuller 1991 American English
17159 Celestine Gillian Tindall 1995 Celestine English
17159 Dearest Friend Lynne Withey 1981 American English
17159 Reveries Of A Bachelor Donald Grant Mitchell 1850 American English
17159 Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty John W. DeForest 1867 American English
17159 The Grandissimes, A Story Of Creole Life George Washington Cable 1880 American English
17159 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17159 Claire Of The Sea Light Edwidge Danticat 2013 Haitian English
17159 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 2015 British English
17159 The Art Of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Helen Vendler 1997 American English
17159 Charlottes Buzzybeez PUBLICATIONS Unknown Unknown
17159 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17159 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
17159 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17159 Tattoo Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie 1972 Iraqi Arabic
17159 I Shall Present You With Another City Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih 1991 Libyan Arabic
17159 A Tunnel Lit By A Woman Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih 1995 Libyan Unknown
17159 No One Sleeps In Alexandria Ibrahim Abdel Meguid 1996 Egyptian Arabic
17159 Love In Exile Bahaa Taher 1995 Egyptian Arabic
17159 The Decade's Night Muhammad Salih al-Jabri 1982 Unknown Unknown
17159 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic
17159 دار المتعة Dar El Mit3a Walid Ikhlassi 1997 Syrian Arabic
17159 Death In Beirut Tawfiq Yousef Awad 1973 Lebanese Arabic
17159 The Lovers Rashad Abu Shawar 1978 Palestinian Unknown
17159 The Palm And El Jabran Gha’ib Ti’ma Firman Iraqi Unknown
17159 Sultanah Ghalib Halasa 1988 Jordanian Unknown
17159 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17159 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17159 The Story Of Zahra Hanan Al-Shaykh 1980 Lebanese Arabic
17159 Wasmiya Comes Out Of The Sea Laila al-Othman 1984 Kuwaiti Arabic
17159 Rubaiyyat Bahari Mohamed Gibreel Unknown Unknown
17159 Sana’a Mohammed Abdul Wali 2005 Yemeni Unknown
17159 After The Sunset Mohamed Abdel-Halim Abdulla Egyptian Unknown
17159 Hearts On A Wire Abdel-Salam Ajili 1974 Syrian Unknown
17159 Aisha Al-Bashir bin Salamah Multiple Unknown
17159 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17159 Al Daqqala In Arajenha Al-Bashir Khareef 1969 Tunisian Arabic
17159 Door To The Courtyard Sahar Khalifeh 1995 Palestinian Arabic
17159 The Woman And The Rose Mohamed Zafzaf 1986 Moroccan Arabic
17159 Unknown Grave Ahmed Ould Abdel-Qader Mauritanian Unknown
16911 There Is A Man In Our House Ihsan Abdul Quddus 1957 Egyptian Arabic
17159 Eye Of The Sun Khalifa Hussein Mustapha 1999 Lebanese Unknown
17159 Clamor Of The Lake Mohammed El-Bisatie 1994 Egyptian Arabic
17159 The Sleepwalkers Sa’ad Makkawi Egyptian Unknown
17159 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17159 Birds Of The Dawn Lily Osseiran Unknown Unknown
17159 The Berries Of Murr Mohamed Al Aroussi Al Matuie Tunisian Unknown
17159 Superior Women Alice Adams 1984 American English
17159 Nobody's Angel Thomas McGuane 1981 American English
17159 Cowboys Are My Weakness Pam Houston 1992 American English
17159 Mistress Of Spices Chitra Divakaruni 1997 American English
17159 A Distant Trumpet Paul Horgan 1960 American English
17072 The Splendid Idle Forties Gertrude Atherton 1902 American English
17159 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17159 Permafrost Eva Baltasar 2018 Spanish Catalan
17159 The Love Object Edna O'Brien 2013 Irish English
17159 The Sum Of Our Days Isabel Allende 2008 Chilean Spanish
17159 Caraval Stephanie Garber 2017 American English
16849 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17159 An Abundance Of Katherines John Green 2006 American English
17159 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
17159 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
17159 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
17159 My Soul To Keep Tananarive Due 1997 American English
17159 Jewels Of The Sun Nora Roberts 1999 American English
17159 The Viscount Who Loved Me Julia Quinn 2000 American English
17159 A Night To Surrender Tessa Dare 2011 American English
17159 The Lotus Palace Jeannie Lin 2013 American English
17159 The Luckiest Lady In London Sherry Thomas 2013 American English
17159 All In Simona Ahrnstedt 2014 Swedish Swedish
17159 The Bride Test Helen Hoang 2019 American English
17159 Dating Dr. Dil Nisha Sharma 2022 American English
17159 Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood 2023 American English
17159 L'amore Degli Adulti Claudio Piersanti 1989 Italian Italian
17159 I'm Waiting For You And Other Stories Kim Bo-young 2021 Korean Korean
17159 Las Batallas En El Desierto José Emilio Pacheco 1981 Mexican Spanish
17159 The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English