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
17125 Model Home Eric Puchner 2010 American English
17125 Pacific Tom Drury 2013 American English
17125 The End Of Vandalism Tom Drury 1994 American English
17125 Mister Monkey Francine Prose 2016 American English
17125 The Fates Will Find Their Way Hannah Pittard 2011 American English
17125 Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name Vendela Vida 2007 American English
17125 The Funny Man John Warner 2011 American English
17125 Winter’s Child Dea Trier Morch 1976 Danish Danish
17125 A Window In Thrums J. M. Barrie 1889 Scottish English
17125 Gabriel Conroy Bret Harte 1876 American English
17125 Peg Woffington And Christie Johnstone Charles Reade 1853 British English
17125 Virginia Of Virginia Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy 1888 American English
17125 Drums Of Autumn Diana Gabaldon 1996 American English
17125 Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone Diana Gabaldon 2021 American English
17125 At Freddie's Penelope Fitzgerald 1982 British English
17125 The Rest Of Life Mary Gordon 1993 American English
17125 The Furies Janet Hobhouse 1984 American English
17125 Mama Terry McMillan 1987 American English
17125 Braided Lives Marge Piercy 1982 American English
17125 The Golden Spur Dawn Powell 1962 American English
17125 The Age Of Grief Jane Smiley 1987 American English
17125 If Morning Ever Comes Anne Tyler 1964 American English
17125 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17125 The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward 2018 British English
17125 Singin’ Swingin’ And Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas Maya Angelou 1976 American English
17125 The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg 2012 American English
17125 Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Danielle Evans 2010 American English
17125 Bark Lorrie Moore 2014 American English
17125 Before I Fall Lauren Oliver 2010 American English
17125 Adam Ariel Schrag 2014 American English
17125 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17125 The Isle Of Youth Laura Van den Berg 2013 American English
17125 War For The Oaks Emma Bull 1987 American English
17125 Andymon Angela Steinmüller, Karlheinz Steinmüller 1982 German German
17125 The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five Doris May Lessing 1980 British English
17125 We Were Out Of Our Minds With Joy David Marusek 1995 American English
17125 The Islanders Christopher Priest 2011 British English
17125 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17125 Outside The Dog Museum Jonathan Carroll 1991 American English
17125 Indigo Graham Joyce 1999 British English
17125 Full Dark House Christopher Fowler 2003 British English
17125 A House With Good Bones T. Kingfisher 2023 American English
17125 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
17125 Be Here To Love Me At The End Of The World Sasha Fletcher 2021 American English
17125 Мили бате! ... Писма на един дакел Stanka Pencheva 1971 Bulgarian Bulgarian
17125 Dear John Nicholas Sparks 2006 American English
17125 Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2008 American English
17125 The Choice Nicholas Sparks 2007 American English
17125 The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks 2008 American English
17125 Nights In Rodanthe Nicholas Sparks 2002 American English
17125 The Wedding Nicholas Sparks 2003 American English
17125 Liespotting Pamela Meyer 2010 American English
17125 You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down Alice Walker 1981 American English
17125 You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates 1987 American English
17125 Spending Mary Gordon 1998 American English
17125 Discerner Of Hearts Olive Senior 1995 Canadian English
17125 Dogside Story Patricia Grace 2001 New Zealand English
17125 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17125 The World As I Found It Bruce Duffy 1987 American English
17125 The Spare Room Helen Garner 2008 Australian English
17125 My Father's Fortune Michael Frayn 2010 British English
17125 A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar 1998 American English
17125 Are You Somebody? Nuala O'Faolain 1996 Irish English
17125 Tender At The Bone Ruth Reichl 1998 American English
17125 List Of Books Frederic Raphael 1981 British Unknown
17125 Forms Of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen 1998 Canadian English
17125 This One Summer Mariko Tamaki 2014 Canadian English
17125 The Cliff Dwellers Henry Blake Fuller 1893 American English
17125 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17125 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17125 Feast Your Eyes Myla Goldberg 2019 American English
17125 Dig A. S. King 2019 American English
17125 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 2015 British English
17125 Black Sun Geoffrey Wolff 1976 American English
17125 Think Like A Monk Jay Shetty 2020 British English
17125 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17125 The Last Crossing Guy Vanderhaeghe 2002 Canadian English
17125 George Sprott Seth 2009 Canadian English
17125 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
17125 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17125 The Long Way Back Fouad Al-Takarli 1980 Iraqi Arabic
17125 Love In Exile Bahaa Taher 1995 Egyptian Arabic
17125 تشريفة آل المر Abdul-Karim Nassif 1998 Syrian Arabic
17125 دار المتعة Dar El Mit3a Walid Ikhlassi 1997 Syrian Arabic
17125 The Lovers Rashad Abu Shawar 1978 Palestinian Unknown
17125 Recognition Ali Abu Al-Rish Emirati Unknown
17125 The Return Of The Absent Munther al-Qabbani 2006 Unknown Arabic
17125 Contact Aroussia Naluti Tunisian Unknown
17125 The Heron Ibrahim Aslan 1983 Egyptian Arabic
17125 The Game Of Forgetting Mohammed Berrada 1987 Moroccan Arabic
17125 Winter Wind Mubarak Al-Rabih 1977 Moroccan Unknown
17125 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17125 Crazy Paradise Ahmed Youssef Syrian Unknown
17125 After The Sunset Mohamed Abdel-Halim Abdulla Egyptian Unknown
17125 Hearts On A Wire Abdel-Salam Ajili 1974 Syrian Unknown
17125 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17125 The Woman And The Rose Mohamed Zafzaf 1986 Moroccan Arabic
17125 Murder And Anger Muwaffaq Khidr Unknown Unknown
17125 The Whirlpool Qamar Kilani Syrian Unknown
17125 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17125 The Sleepwalkers Sa’ad Makkawi Egyptian Unknown
17125 1952 Jamil Atiyah Ibrahim 1990 Unknown Unknown
17125 Essential Pillars Elias Farkouh 2002 Jordanian Unknown
17125 Al Wasmiya Abdel-aziz Mishri Unknown Unknown
17125 Crooked Little Heart Anne Lamott 1997 American English
17125 Lying Low Diane Johnson 1990 American English
17125 Cowboys Are My Weakness Pam Houston 1992 American English
17125 Fathers Herb Gold 1994 American English
17125 Rock Springs Richard Ford 1987 American English
17125 A Distant Trumpet Paul Horgan 1960 American English
17032 Friendly Persuasion Jessamyn West 1945 American English
17043 The Splendid Idle Forties Gertrude Atherton 1902 American English
17125 Making History Carolyn See 1991 American English
17125 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
16978 The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
17125 Permafrost Eva Baltasar 2018 Spanish Catalan
17125 A Girl Returned Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017 Italian Italian
17125 Motherhood Sheila Heti 2018 Canadian English
17125 Accabadora Michela Murgia 2009 Italian Italian
17125 The Love Object Edna O'Brien 2013 Irish English