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
5236 Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee 1993 Indian English
5257 Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
5276 Slave Of The Huns Géza Gárdonyi 1901 Hungarian Hungarian
5288 A Nap Szerelmese Sándor Dallos 1931 Hungarian Hungarian
5300 The Museum Of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 2008 Turkish Turkish
5292 The Poisoned Kiss And Other Stories From The Portuguese Joyce Carol Oates 1975 American English
5304 A Fairy Tale Of New York J. P. Donleavy 1973 Irish English
5309 The Emperor's Children Claire Messud 2006 American English
5317 Eleanor And Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
5331 Through A Glass Darkly Karleen Koen 1986 American English
5339 Days Without End Sebastian Barry 2016 Irish English
5341 A Funtineli Boszorkány Albert Wass 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5345 The Bells Of Prespa Dimitar Talev 1966 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5360 The Portable Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker 1944 American English
5378 A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson 1974 American English
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
5391 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
5392 The Poems of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë 1846 British English
5392 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5392 Poems Of Juana Inés De La Cruz Juana Inés de la Cruz 1689 Mexican Spanish
5392 Complete Plays And Poems Christopher Marlowe 1587 British English
5392 Mademoiselle De Maupin Théophile Gautier 1835 French French
5392 Personae Ezra Pound 1909 American English
5404 Our Sister Killjoy Ama Ata Aidoo 1977 Ghanaian English
5406 I Love Dick Chris Kraus 1997 American English
5410 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5428 Hello Summer, Goodbye Michael G. Coney 1975 British English
5433 The House At Old Vine Norah Lofts 1961 British English
5441 Marivaux Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1968 French Unknown
5442 Ida Regénye Géza Gárdonyi 1899 Hungarian Hungarian
5447 The Lover A. B. Yehoshua 1977 Israeli Hebrew
5464 Gift Of Gold Jayne Ann Krentz 1988 American English
5477 Fado Alexandrino António Lobo Antunes 1983 Portuguese Portuguese
5483 The Painter Of Signs R. K. Narayan 1976 Indian English
5486 Sillabari Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
5493 Royally Screwed Emma Chase 2016 American English
5496 Signs Of Fire Jorge de Sena 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
5501 The Crowned Wanderer Rahim Esenov 1994 Turkmen Unknown
5507 Seven Days In June Tia Williams 2021 American English
5510 Now in November Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934 American English
5530 Summer Of Caprice Vladislav Vančura 1926 Czech Czech
5530 Kolik Příležitostí Má Růže Jan Skácel 1957 Czech Czech
5530 Romance For Bugle František Hrubín 1957 Czech Czech
5581 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
5582 Democracy Joan Didion 1984 American English
5590 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5590 Love Among The Chickens P. G. Wodehouse 1906 British English
5596 The Sound Of Things Falling Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2011 Colombian Spanish
5607 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5626 Olivia Dorothy Bussy 1949 British English
5636 Book Lovers Emily Henry 2021 American English
5666 Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw 1969 American English
5679 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
5667 Moira Julien Green 1950 French French
5667 The Passionate Heart Beatrix Beck 1955 French French
5680 The Tendrils of the Vine Colette 1908 French Unknown
5688 The Friendly Young Ladies Mary Renault 1943 British English
5697 A Madness Of The Heart Richard Neely 1976 American English
5703 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5705 Mondscheintarif Ildikò von Kürthy 1999 German German
5708 Διηγήματα Michail Mitsakis 1987 Greek Greek
5708 Ο Λουσίας Nikos Houliaras 1987 Greek Greek
5723 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 1949 American English
5726 Simple Passion Annie Ernaux 1991 French French
5731 In The Presence Of Absence Mahmoud Darwish 2006 Palestinian Arabic
5734 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5751 Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison 1999 British English
5759 Earthly Paradise Colette 1966 French French
5760 The Disorderly Knights Dorothy Dunnett 1966 British English
5779 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5817 Helen Euripides -412 Greek Ancient greek
5822 Hymns And Epigrams Callimachus -239 Greek Ancient greek
5823 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
5821 Heroides Ovid 25 Roman Latin
5819 Perma Red Debra Magpie Earling 2002 American English
5832 Poems Archilochos -650 Greek Ancient greek
5830 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
5833 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
5839 Miss Susie Slagle's Augusta Tucker 1939 American English
5842 The Girl From Samos Menander -342 Greek Ancient greek
5836 The Braggart Soldier Plautus -204 Roman Latin
5841 The Girl From Andros Terence -166 Roman Latin
5840 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
5844 The Mother In Law Terence -160 Roman Latin
5849 Venice Preserv'd Thomas Otway 1682 British English
5845 Andromache Jean Racine 1667 French French
5843 A Month In The Country Ivan Turgenev 1855 Russian Russian
5850 Love For Love William Congreve 1695 British English
5851 The Recruiting Officer George Farquhar 1706 Irish English
5857 The New Life Dante Alighieri 1295 Italian Italian
5858 Selections Francesco Petrarca 1340 Italian Italian
5855 The Servant Of Two Masters Carlo Goldoni 1746 Italian Italian
5862 The School for Wives Molière 1662 French French
5862 The Poems Of William Dunbar William Dunbar 1501 Scottish Middle scots
5862 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5862 Selected Poetry Rainer Maria Rilke 1902 German German
5862 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5862 Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair Pablo Neruda 1924 Chilean Spanish
5889 The Girl With The Golden Eyes Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
5901 The Beggar's Opera John Gay 1728 British English
5899 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
5917 The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter 1967 British English
5902 Poems Of George Darley George Darley 1840 Irish English
5906 The Ring Of The Nibelung Richard Wagner 1876 German German
5910 Complete Prose Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
5913 The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1863 Russian Russian
5911 Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa 1942 Portuguese Portuguese
5950 Black Box Amos Oz 1987 Israeli Hebrew
5954 A Good Man In Africa William Boyd 1981 British English
5955 Collected Stories Gabriel García Márquez 1996 Colombian Spanish
5962 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
5965 A Princess In Theory Alyssa Cole 2018 American English
5976 So Much! Trish Cooke 1994 British English
5982 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
5983 Shanghai Baby Wei Hui 1999 Chinese Chinese
5986 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
5988 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1602 British English
5994 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
6002 Kate Vaiden Reynolds Price 1986 American English
6004 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English