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
2939 The Demon Lover Elizabeth Bowen 1927 British English
2948 Sighs And Smiles François Haverschmidt 1867 Dutch Dutch
2952 Nevsky Prospekt Nikolai Gogol 1835 Russian Russian
2957 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
2974 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 1997 American English
2979 The Demon Mikhail Lermontov 1829 Russian Russian
2981 The Man of Property John Galsworthy 1906 British English
2987 Tipping The Velvet Sarah Waters 1998 British English
2988 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan 1945 Canadian English
2993 A Book Of Memories Péter Nádas 1986 Hungarian Hungarian
2994 Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1910 British English
2999 A Cloud In Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky 1915 Russian Russian
3000 Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
3014 The Game Of Kings Dorothy Dunnett 1961 British English
3016 The American Henry James 1877 American English
3022 The Echoing Grove Rosamond Lehmann 1953 British English
3022 An Infamous Army Georgette Heyer 1937 British English
3034 Novel on Yellow Paper Stevie Smith 1936 British English
3036 Less Than Angels Barbara Pym 1955 British English
3037 They Were Counted Miklos Banffy 1934 Hungarian Hungarian
3055 The Sinful Ones Fritz Leiber 1953 American English
3058 LaBrava Elmore Leonard 1983 American English
3074 Lunch Poems Frank O'Hara 1964 American English
3082 Flappers And Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
3088 The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony Roberto Calasso 1988 Italian Italian
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3105 Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie 1984 American English
3111 Anagrams Lorrie Moore 1986 American English
3115 Affinity Sarah Waters 1999 British English
3120 The Mortal Wound Raffaele La Capria 1961 Italian Italian
3121 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
3125 Undine Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1811 German German
3128 Attis And Other Poems Catullus -53 Roman Latin
3144 Poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
3152 The Complete Poems Of San Juan De La Cruz San Juan de la Cruz 1618 Spanish Spanish
3157 The Honorary Consul Graham Greene 1973 British English
3161 Weights And Measures Joseph Roth 1937 Austrian German
3164 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill 2014 American English
3173 A Simple Story S.Y. Agnon 1935 Israeli Hebrew
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3191 Trilce César Vallejo 1922 Peruvian Spanish
3196 The Crock Of Gold James Stephens 1912 Irish English
3202 The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth Pavel Florensky 1914 Russian Russian
3212 Betty Blue Philippe Djian 1985 French French
3215 The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld Patricia A. McKillip 1974 American English
3221 Aphrodite Pierre Louÿs 1896 French French
3226 Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare 1600 British English
3252 Endless Love Scott Spencer 1979 American English
3259 A Fine And Private Place Peter S. Beagle 1960 American English
3263 The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese 1968 Italian Italian
3270 The Twins Tessa De Loo 1993 Dutch Dutch
3276 The Complete Plays of Jean Racine Jean Racine 1677 French French
3277 The Polish Rider Antonio Muñoz Molina 1991 Spanish Spanish
3282 Blankets Craig Thompson 2003 American English
3288 Savushun Simin Daneshvar 1969 Iranian Persian
3287 The Aspern Papers Henry James 1888 American English
3290 Candida George Bernard Shaw 1898 Irish English
3292 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
3293 The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
3295 Sonnets Francisco de Quevedo 1648 Spanish Spanish
3317 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
3320 Our Lady of the Assassins Fernando Vallejo 1994 Colombian Spanish
3323 Confusion Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
3324 Tirant Lo Blanc Joanot Martorell 1490 Spanish Catalan
3324 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes 1617 Spanish Spanish
3324 Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry Eliza Haywood 1719 British English
3324 The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox 1752 British English
3324 Torrents of Spring Ivan Turgenev 1872 Russian Russian
3324 Pepita Jimenez Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano 1874 Spanish Spanish
3324 None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler 1895 Austrian German
3324 The Green Hat Michael Arlen 1924 British English
3324 I Thought of Daisy Edmund Wilson 1929 American English
3324 Monica Saunders Lewis 1930 British Welsh
3324 To the North Elizabeth Bowen 1932 British English
3324 A Day Off Storm Jameson 1933 British English
3324 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley 1936 British English
3324 Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner 1936 British English
3324 Arcanum 17 André Breton 1944 French French
3324 The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy 1945 Canadian French
3324 Back Henry Green 1946 British English
3324 A Day in Spring Ciril Kosmač 1953 Slovenian Slovene
3324 The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima 1954 Japanese Japanese
3324 Asphodel Hilda Doolittle 1921 American English
3371 Fable Of Polyphemus And Galatea Luis de Góngora 1627 Spanish Spanish
3376 Le Cid Pierre Corneille 1637 French French
3379 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3383 Poems Miguel de Unamuno 1907 Spanish Spanish
3384 The Plague-Sower Gesualdo Bufalino 1981 Italian Italian
3390 La Realidad Y El Deseo Luis Cernuda 1936 Spanish Spanish
3391 Selected Poetry Of Francisco De Quevedo Francisco de Quevedo 1648 Spanish Spanish
3391 Los Gozos Y Las Sombras Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1957 Spanish Spanish
3391 Bomarzo Manuel Mujica Lainez 1962 Argentinian Spanish
3391 Crónica Del Alba Ramón J. Sender 1942 Spanish Spanish
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
3399 Portrait Of A Marriage Nigel Nicolson 1973 British English
3401 Brothers Yu Hua 2005 Chinese Chinese
3405 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
3409 The deadbeats Ward Ruyslinck 1957 Belgian Dutch
3418 Plays Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
3437 So Far From God Ana Castillo 1993 American English
3449 The Satin Slipper Paul Claudel 1929 French French
3465 Sweetheart, Sweetheart Bernard Taylor 1977 British English
3476 The Black Obelisk Erich Maria Remarque 1956 German German
3478 The Use Of Man Aleksandar Tišma 1976 Serbian Serbo-croatian
3485 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
3492 Selected Poems Pierre Ronsard 1501 French French
3496 Devil's Cub Georgette Heyer 1932 British English
3518 Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin Friedrich Holderlin 1800 German German
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3528 Love in the Western World Denis de Rougemont 1939 Swiss French
3545 Daphnis and Chloe Longus -200 Greek Ancient greek
3561 The History Of Miss Sara Burgerhart Betje Wolff, Aagje Deken 1782 Dutch Dutch
3562 Charming Billy Alice McDermott 1998 American English
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3579 Flowering Judas and Other Stories Katherine Anne Porter 1930 American English
3581 Selected Poems Andrew Marvell 1681 British English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
3586 The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset 1907 French French
3591 Legends of The Fall Jim Harrison 1979 American English
3595 Les Destinées Alfred de Vigny 1864 French French