The Greatest Books of All Time on Relationships

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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
14984 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Haemin Sunim 2012 Korean Korean
14984 Cash Johnny Cash 1997 American English
14984 John Annie Baker 2015 American English
14984 The Heidi Chronicles Wendy Wasserstein 1989 American English
14984 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
14984 The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee 2000 American English
14984 Six Degrees Of Separation John Guare 1990 American English
14984 The Humans Stephen Karam 2014 American English
14984 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard 1982 British English
14984 Uncommon Women And Others Wendy Wasserstein 1977 American English
14984 Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill 1979 British English
14984 Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout 2019 American English
14984 The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag 1992 American English
14984 Summer Ali Smith 2020 British English
14984 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce 2012 British English
14984 The Unnamed Joshua Ferris 2010 American English
14984 Blood, Bones, And Butter Gabrielle Hamilton 2011 American English
14984 Ship Of Magic Robin Hobb 1998 American English
14984 Paper Towns John Green 2008 American English
14984 The Mammoth Hunters Jean M. Auel 1985 American English
14984 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech 1994 American English
14984 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 2005 American English
14984 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14984 How To Read The Air Dinaw Mengestu 2010 American English
14984 No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 2007 American English
14984 A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Michael Dorris 1987 American English
14984 You Had Me At Hola Alexis Daria 2020 American English
14984 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
14984 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
14984 A Touch Of Darkness Scarlett St. Clair 2019 Unknown English
14984 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14984 The Road To Roswell Connie Willis 2023 American English
15581 The Alien Realm Bo Yang 1996 Chinese Unknown
15588 Life In The West Brian Aldiss 1980 British English
15588 Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex David Reuben 1969 American English
15588 The Sensuous Woman Terry Garrity 1969 American English
15604 Moon Calf Floyd Dell 1920 American English
15606 Foursquare Grace S. Richmond 1920 American English
15609 The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1922 British English
15610 Round The Corner Gilbert Cannan 1913 British English
15629 Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1921 British English
15643 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15651 Certain People Of Importance Kathleen Thompson Norris 1922 American English
15656 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15659 Black Oxen Gertrude Atherton 1923 American English
15668 The Middle Of The Road Philip Gibbs 1923 British English
15671 His Children's Children Arthur Cheney Train 1923 American English
15676 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15678 Silent Island Su Wei-chen 2021 Chinese Unknown
15680 The Good Girl Vincent O'Sullivan 1933 New Zealand Unknown
15680 Knots R.D. Laing Scottish English
15680 The Human Agenda Roderic Gorney Unknown English
15706 Doctor Nye Of North Ostable Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1936 American English
15708 The Dim Lantern Temple Bailey 1925 American English
15712 Holiday Stanley Middleton 1974 British English
15732 Deliver Us From Love Suzanne Brogger 1976 Danish Danish
15747 My Father's Life (Continental Classics) Restif de La Bretonne 1779 French French
15757 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
15784 The Sinners Yusuf Idris 1959 Egyptian Arabic
15788 Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 1954 American English
15780 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
15759 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
15898 Happiness in Marriage Margaret Sanger 1926 American English
15898 Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 James Boswell 1950 British English
15898 The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1915 British English
15898 The Hunting Gun Yasushi Inoue 1949 Japanese Japanese
15898 A Spy In The House Of Love Anaïs Nin 1954 French English
15898 There Is Confusion Jessie Fauset 1924 American English
15898 The Flagellants Carlene Hatcher Polite 1966 American English
15898 A Heritage And Its History Ivy Compton-Burnett 1959 British English
15898 Old Times Harold Pinter 1971 British English
15898 Pioneers In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1928 German German
15898 The Dispute Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1744 French French
15898 Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku Watsuji Tetsuro 1937 Japanese Japanese
15898 The Harsh Voice Rebecca West 1935 British English
15898 My Dog Tulip J. R. Ackerley 1956 British English
15898 Cronopios And Famas Julio Cortazar 1962 Cuban Spanish
15898 The Perfect Stranger P. J. Kavanagh 1966 British English
15898 The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard 1862 American English
15898 A Woman Of Genius Mary Austin 1912 American English
15898 Bid Me To Live Hilda Doolittle 1960 British English
16487 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry 1966 American English
15898 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
16493 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
15898 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
16532 That's How It Was Maureen Duffy 1962 British English
16594 Le Dindon Georges Feydeau 1896 French French
16514 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
16532 R. S. V. P. Murder E. B. Eberhart 1938 Unknown English
16614 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
16661 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
16707 Diary Of A Seducer Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
16613 Summerfolk Maxim Gorky 1904 Russian Russian
16667 The Daughter In Law D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
16714 The Verge Susan Glaspell 1921 American English
16750 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16718 Life With Father Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse 1939 American English
16651 Present Laughter Noel Coward 1942 British English
16614 The Most Of S. J. Perelman S. J. Perelman 1970 American English
16656 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
16665 O Sztuce Miłości Erich Fromm 1956 German Polish
16742 Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
16693 How To Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie 1936 American English
17120 Seaview Toby Olson 1983 American English
17120 Dusk James Salter 1988 American English
17120 The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor 1997 American English
17120 The Great Man Kate Christensen 2007 American English
17120 Killshot Elmore Leonard 1989 American English
17120 Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin 1995 American English
17120 Facts of Life Maureen Howard 1965 American English
17120 Killing Yourself to Live Chuck Klosterman 2005 American English
17120 Thursbitch Alan Garner 2003 British English
17120 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17120 The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005 American English
17120 The Destiny Waltz Gerda Charles 1968 British English
17120 The Chip Chip Gatherers Shiva Naipaul 1973 Trinidadian English
17120 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17120 Picture Palace Paul Theroux 1978 American English
17120 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17120 The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney 2006 British English