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
4308 Peace In War Miguel de Unamuno 1897 Spanish Spanish
4308 Love For Lydia H. E. Bates 1952 British English
4308 Moon Over Africa Pamela Kent 1955 British English
4308 The Weather In The Streets Rosamond Lehmann 1936 British English
4308 Ali And Nino Kurban Said 1937 Azerbaijani German
4308 The Reluctant Orphan Sara Seale 1947 British English
4308 The Last September Elizabeth Bowen 1929 Irish English
4308 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4308 A Girl In Winter Philip Larkin 1947 British English
4308 Of Love & Hunger Julian Maclaren-Ross 1947 British English
4308 Darkness Falls From The Air Nigel Balchin 1942 British English
4308 Fair Stood The Wind For France H. E. Bates 1944 British English
4367 The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1995 British English
4368 More Die Of Heartbreak Saul Bellow 1987 American English
4369 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
4382 A Tale Of Poor Lovers Vasco Pratolini 1947 Italian Italian
4395 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4402 A Kind Of Loving Stan Barstow 1960 British English
4402 This Sporting Life David Storey 1960 British English
4402 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4407 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
4408 Salammbô Gustave Flaubert 1862 French French
4415 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021 American English
4419 Poems Of George Herbert George Herbert 1633 British English
4429 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
4442 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4460 Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
4461 The Royal Physician's Visit Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
4468 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
4503 Osadeni Dushi Dimitar Dimov 1945 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4505 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
4507 The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist 2004 Swedish Swedish
4529 Minneliederen Hendrik van Veldeke 1170 German Middle dutch
4540 The Stone Of Laughter Hoda Barakat 1990 Lebanese Arabic
4543 The Collected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis Odysseas Elytis 1971 Greek Greek
4547 Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor 1944 American English
4559 The Lady's Not For Burning Christopher Fry 1948 British English
4589 La Demoiselle sauvage Corinna Bille 1974 French French
4593 Last Night James Salter 2005 American English
4596 The Fourth Dimension Yannis Ritsos 1972 Greek Greek
4609 Las Personas Del Verbo Jaime Gil de Biedma
 1975 Spanish Spanish
4610 Complete Short Stories D. H. Lawrence 1950 British English
4620 Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire 1918 French French
4621 The Bride Of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1819 Scottish English
4628 Heartburn Nora Ephron 1983 American English
4629 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
4630 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4631 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4638 The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox 1998 New Zealand English
4641 Memoirs Of A Midget Walter de la Mare 1921 British English
4656 Man And Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903 British English
4674 The Time of Our Singing Richard Powers 2003 American English
4677 Of Love And Other Demons Gabriel García Márquez 1994 Colombian Spanish
4683 The Complete Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
4686 Centuries Of Meditations Thomas Traherne 1665 British English
4710 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4718 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4720 The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta 1976 Nigerian English
4722 Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 1870 Austrian German
4730 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
4737 When A Scot Ties The Knot Tessa Dare 2015 American English
4740 The Man With The Golden Touch Mór Jókai 1872 Hungarian Hungarian
4744 Oeuvre Poétique Léopold Sédar Senghor 1964 Senegalese French
4754 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4778 Helping Verbs Of The Heart Peter Esterhazy 1985 Hungarian Hungarian
4781 The Art Of Love Ovid 2 Roman Latin
4785 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
4786 The Way Of The World William Congreve 1700 British English
4793 Yvain Chrétien de Troyes 1177 French Old french
4797 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
4799 Home to Harlem Claude McKay 1928 American English
4800 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
4804 The Dybbuk S. Ansky 1914 Russian Yiddish
4809 Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz 1977 American English
4807 Cel Mai Iubit Dintre Pământeni Marin Preda 1980 Romanian Romanian
4812 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4815 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4822 He, She and It Marge Piercy 1991 American English
4845 The World's Wife Carol Ann Duffy 1999 British English
4865 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4869 Music and Silence Rose Tremain 1999 British English
4871 Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1975 Indian English
4877 L'instant Fatal Raymond Queneau 1948 French French
4877 The Cat Colette 1933 French French
4885 The Crimson Petal And The White Michel Faber 2002 British English
4886 The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry 2008 Irish English
4888 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
4891 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
4898 The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 British English
4928 Dreaming Of You Lisa Kleypas 1994 American English
4936 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
4942 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
4943 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
4946 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
4955 The Fiery Angel Valeri Briussof 1908 Russian Russian
4981 New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 German German
4994 Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay 1990 Canadian English
4996 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5012 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5018 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 2012 British English
5043 Selected Poems Of George Sterling George Sterling 1923 American English
5043 The Girl And The Faun Eden Phillpotts 1917 British English
5084 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
5083 Nowhere In Africa Stefanie Zweig 1995 German German
5089 Past Caring Robert Goddard 1986 British English
5101 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
5107 Brother Of The More Famous Jack Barbara Trapido 1982 British English
5108 Dancing In Odessa Ilya Kaminsky 2004 Ukrainian English
5113 Дъщерята на Калояна Fani Popova-Mutafova 1943 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5118 Нощем с белите коне Pavel Vezhinov 1957 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5120 In The Night Of Time Antonio Muñoz Molina 2012 Spanish Spanish
5122 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
5125 Maria Nephele Odysseas Elytis 1979 Greek Greek
5142 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5155 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5154 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5158 The Triumph Of Death Gabriele D'Annunzio 1894 Italian Italian
5169 Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen 1958 Danish Danish
5188 A Man In The Zoo David Garnett 1924 British English
5232 Tales from the Kathasaritsagara Somadeva 1070 Indian Sanskrit