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 Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English
17150 The Veiled Suite Agha Shahid Ali 2009 American English
17150 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
17150 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
16892 The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Volume 2 William Shakespeare 1623 British English
17150 Naoko Keigo Higashino 1998 Japanese Japanese
17150 Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins 1980 American English
17150 American Primitive Mary Oliver 1983 American English
17150 Anderkant Pontenilo Irma Joubert 2007 South African Afrikaans
17150 Quicksilver Callie Hart 2023 Unknown English
17150 Delirium Lauren Oliver 2011 American English
17150 Animal Triste Monika Maron 1996 German German
17150 A Minute's Silence Siegfried Lenz 2008 German German
17150 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17150 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
17150 Love Is A Mix Tape Rob Sheffield 2007 American English
17150 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
17150 Eros The Bittersweet Anne Carson 1986 Canadian English
17150 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
17150 Love's Executioner Irvin D. Yalom 1989 American English
17150 The Course Of Love Alain de Botton 2016 British English
16796 The Last Of The Wine Mary Renault 1956 British English
17150 Who We Are In Real Life Victoria Koops 2024 Unknown English
17150 Opere V Vasile Alecsandri 1992 Romanian Romanian
17150 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17150 Helen Of Troy Margaret George 2006 American English
17150 A Kingdom Of Dreams Judith McNaught 1989 American English
17150 Bet Me Jennifer Crusie 2004 American English
17150 Wicked Intentions Elizabeth Hoyt 2010 American English
17150 A Week To Be Wicked Tessa Dare 2012 American English
17150 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
17150 Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx 2005 American English
17150 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17150 To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara 2022 American English
17150 Still Me Jojo Moyes 1998 British English
17150 I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both Mariah Stovall 2024 Unknown Unknown
17150 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17150 Hannah Coulter Wendell Berry 2004 American English
17150 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers 1991 American English
17150 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17150 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17150 Jayadeva's Gitagovinda Barbara Stoler Miller 1977 Unknown Sanskrit
17150 The Republic Of Thieves Scott Lynch 2013 American English
17150 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
16796 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17150 The Romantic Barbara Gowdy 2003 Canadian English
17150 The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2017 Mexican English
17150 The Unfinished World Amber Sparks 2016 American English
17150 Here Be Dragons Sharon Kay Penman 1985 American English
17150 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17150 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17150 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17150 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17150 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
16878 The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown 1942 American English
17150 You Better Be Lightning Andrea Gibson 2021 American English
17150 The Witch's Heart Genevieve Gornichec 2021 American English
17150 Half A Soul Olivia Atwater 2020 Unknown English
17150 My Sad Republic Eric Gamalinda 2000 Filipino English
17150 Vampires Of El Norte Isabel Cañas 2023 Unknown English
17150 Being A Green Mother Piers Anthony 1987 American English
17150 The Gift Of Rain Tan Twang Eng 2007 Malaysian English
17150 Saga, Compendium One Brian K. Vaughan 2019 American English
17150 Beren And Luthien J. R. R. Tolkien 2017 British English
17150 Limehouse Nights Thomas Burke 1917 British English
17150 These Are The Words Nikita Gill 2022 British English
17150 Unerhörte Stimmen Elif Shafak 2021 Unknown German
17150 Gild Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
17150 Diwan On The Prince Of Emgion Gunnar Ekelöf 1965 Swedish Swedish
17150 Andvake, Olavs Draumar And Kveldsvævd Jon Fosse 2007 Norwegian Norwegian
17150 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17150 Elegy On Toy Piano Dean Young 2005 American English
17150 And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell 2005 American English
17150 Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney 2007 British English
17150 Loop Brenda Lozano 2014 Mexican Spanish
17150 Dry Season Gabriela Babnik 2012 Unknown Slovene
17150 Tūla Jurgis Kunčinas 1993 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17150 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17150 The Selection Kiera Cass 2012 American English
17150 Twisted Love Ana Huang 2021 Unknown English
17150 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17150 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
17150 Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho 2003 Brazilian Portuguese
17150 The Book Of Life Deborah Harkness 2014 American English
17150 Carry On Rainbow Rowell 2015 American English
17150 Unravel Me Tahereh Mafi 2013 American English
17150 Heartless Marissa Meyer 2016 American English
17150 白夜行 [Byakuyakō] Keigo Higashino 1999 Japanese Japanese
17150 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17150 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17150 Maurice And Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 2024 Unknown English
16941 Family Happiness And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1973 Russian Russian
17150 Mayakovsky's Revolver Matthew Dickman 2012 American English
17150 What I Saw And How I Lied Judy Blundell 2008 American English
17150 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17150 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
17095 Vis And Ramin Fakhraddin Gorgani 1048 Persian Persian
17150 The Beast Walter Dean Myers 2003 American English
16985 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
17093 Victoria Knut Hamsun 1898 Norwegian Norwegian
17150 Censoring An Iranian Love Story Shahriar Mandanipour 2009 Iranian Persian
17113 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17150 The Sculptor Scott McCloud 2015 American English
17150 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
17150 Rosalie Lightning Tom Hart 2016 American English
16824 The Biography Of Ying Ying Yuan Zhen 820 Chinese Classical chinese
16951 The Romance Of 'Antar Unknown 1100 Multiple Arabic
17150 Kallimachos And Chrysorrhoe Unknown Unknown Unknown
16962 The Gentle Spirit Fyodor Dostoevsky 1876 Russian Russian
17150 Ten, Nine, Eight Molly Bang 1983 American English
17150 Zpověď Maxe Tivoliho Andrew Sean Greer 2004 American English
17150 Marrying Winterborne Lisa Kleypas 2016 American English
17150 Binding 13 Chloe Walsh 2018 Unknown English
17150 The Ballad Of Never After Stephanie Garber 2022 American English
17150 A Dowry Of Blood S.T. Gibson 2021 Unknown English
17150 A Heart Of Blood And Ashes Milla Vane 2020 Unknown English
17150 A Curse For True Love Stephanie Garber 2023 American English
17150 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17150 This Woven Kingdom Tahereh Mafi 2022 American English
17150 Dog Songs Mary Oliver 2013 American English