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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1616 Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov 1888 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1618 The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 1945 British English
1622 Fortress Besieged Qian Zhongshu 1947 Chinese Chinese
1623 Corregidora Gayl Jones 1975 American English
1654 O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1913 American English
1661 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 1595 British English
1664 Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Géza Gárdonyi 1899 Hungarian Hungarian
1667 The Poetry of Alexander Pushkin Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
1671 The Ordeal Of Richard Feverel George Meredith 1859 British English
1674 London Fields Martin Amis 1989 British English
1675 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
1676 Time and Again Jack Finney 1970 American English
1696 Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1703 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 American English
1717 The Clown Heinrich Böll 1963 German German
1722 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech Czech
1723 1Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
1724 Logbook George Seferis 1940 Greek Greek
1725 A Harlot High And Low Honoré de Balzac 1839 French French
1738 The Bedbug And Selected Poetry Vladimir Mayakovsky 1920 Russian Russian
1741 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend 1982 British English
1745 Couples, Passersby Botho Strauß 1981 German German
1747 Twenty Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
1756 Strange Fruit Lillian Smith 1944 American English
1761 The Serious Game Hjalmar Soderberg 1912 Swedish Swedish
1762 Lady into Fox David Garnett 1922 British English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1769 Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas 1954 British English
1770 The Emperor of Portugallia Selma Lagerlöf 1914 Swedish Swedish
1773 Doctor Glas Hjalmar Soderberg 1905 Swedish Swedish
1778 The Strudlhof Steps Heimito von Doderer 1951 German German
1780 Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 1970 Chilean Spanish
1788 Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1919 British English
1789 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1870 British English
1792 The Adventures Of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett 1748 British English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
1798 Washington Square Henry James 1880 American English
1807 Beware Of Pity Stefan Zweig 1939 Austrian German
1809 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
1815 The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman A. E. Housman 1939 British English
1839 The Child Of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1889 Italian Italian
1840 Mysteries Knut Hamsun 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
1857 A Lost Lady Willa Cather 1923 American English
1859 Angel Elizabeth Taylor 1957 British English
1863 Katherine Anya Seton 1954 American English
1867 The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1887 British English
1869 The Recognition of Sakuntala Kālidāsa -400 Indian Sanskrit
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
1885 Little Disturbances Grace Paley 1959 American English
1900 Collected Stories Of O. Henry O. Henry 1908 American English
1902 The Physician Noah Gordon 1986 American English
1906 Red Sorghum Yan Mo 1986 Chinese Chinese
1916 Group Portrait with Lady Heinrich Böll 1971 German German
1918 The Lady Of The Camellias Alexandre Dumas 1848 French French
1933 Capital of Pain Paul Éluard 1926 French French
1934 Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières 1994 British English
1936 Ask The Dust John Fante 1939 American English
1942 The Land At The End Of The World António Lobo Antunes 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
1946 A Burnt Child Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
1968 Kama Sutra Vātsyāyana -400 Indian Sanskrit
1986 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
1988 Seven Gothic Tales Isak Dinesen 1934 Danish English
1990 Le Mariage De Figaro Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1784 French French
1994 Fancies And Goodnights John Collier 1951 British English
1999 The Poetry of Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda 1901 Spanish Spanish
2000 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas Llosa 1977 Peruvian Spanish
2005 Baltasar and Blimunda José Saramago 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
2006 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Unknown 900 Japanese Japanese
2009 The War Marguerite Duras 1985 French French
2010 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks 1996 American English
2016 The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810 British English
2025 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 American English
2031 The Devil's Pool George Sand 1846 French French
2049 The Ripening Seed Colette 1923 French French
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
2052 The Misanthrope Molière 1666 French French
2062 Girl With Green Eyes Edna O'Brien 1962 Irish English
2073 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
2074 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 1994 American English
2081 Στροφή George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
2086 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
2092 Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill 1931 American English
2094 Derborence Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1934 Swiss French
2099 From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 British English
2108 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1987 British English
2116 Siebenkäs Jean Paul 1796 German German
2127 Restoration Rose Tremain 1989 British English
2137 The Last Days Of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1834 British English
2148 The Book of Songs China -600 Chinese Classical chinese
2155 The Flame Of Life Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900 Italian Italian
2169 My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier 1951 British English
2170 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2172 Poems Of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1786 Scottish Scots
2178 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
2179 The Oostakker Poems Hugo Claus 1955 Belgian Dutch
2185 On Love Alain de Botton 1993 British English
2194 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 American English
2195 Portrait Of Jennie Robert Nathan 1940 American English
2197 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 1998 Brazilian Portuguese
2200 Death Of A Hero Richard Aldington 1929 British English
2201 Arch Of Triumph Erich Maria Remarque 1945 German German
2207 Waiting Ha Jin 1999 Chinese English
2210 Exemplary Stories Miguel de Cervantes 1613 Spanish Spanish
2211 Swordspoint Ellen Kushner 1987 American English
2212 Collected Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1951 British English
2214 Roman Elegies Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1795 German German
2214 Mozart On His Way To Prague Eduard Mörike 1856 German German
2214 The Lake of the Bees Theodor Storm 1849 German German
2221 Simon and the Oaks Marianne Fredriksson 1985 Swedish Swedish
2227 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2247 Roman De La Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun 1237 French Old french
2254 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
2257 A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes 1989 British English
2266 Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover 1969 American English
2268 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
2278 One of Ours Willa Cather 1922 American English
2279 Poems of Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale 1925 Italian Italian
2286 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English