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
17120 44 Scotland Street Collection Alexander McCall Smith 2005 British English
17120 The Sum Of Our Days Isabel Allende 2008 Chilean Spanish
17120 Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022 American English
17120 The Flatshare Beth O'Leary 2019 British English
16828 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17120 She Comes First Ian Kerner 2004 American English
17120 The Truth Neil Strauss 2015 American English
17120 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
17120 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17120 Eight Dates John Mordechai Gottman, Doug Abrams, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Rachel Carlton Abrams M.D. 2019 American English
17120 All In Simona Ahrnstedt 2014 Swedish Swedish
17120 The Bride Test Helen Hoang 2019 American English
17120 Dating Dr. Dil Nisha Sharma 2022 American English
17120 Magma Thora Hjörleifsdóttir 2019 Icelandic Icelandic
17120 The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English
17120 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell 2020 British English
17120 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17120 Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher 2014 American English
17120 The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson 1998 American English
17120 The Secret Place Tana French 2014 Irish English
17120 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
17120 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17120 About A Boy Nick Hornby 1998 British English
17120 Love Is A Mix Tape Rob Sheffield 2007 American English
17120 Love's Executioner Irvin D. Yalom 1989 American English
17120 The Course Of Love Alain de Botton 2016 British English
17120 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17120 New Animal Ella Baxter 2021 Australian English
17120 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17120 The Hopefuls Jennifer Close 2016 American English
17120 The Last White Man Mohsin Hamid 2022 Pakistani English
17120 A Week To Be Wicked Tessa Dare 2012 American English
16768 Capricornia Xavier Herbert 1938 Australian English
17120 After Dark Haruki Murakami 2004 Japanese Japanese
17120 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17120 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17120 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17120 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers 1991 American English
17120 The Art Of Seduction Robert Greene 2001 American English
17120 Dear Lupin Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer 2011 British English
17120 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
17120 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17120 Elizabeth And After Matt Cohen 1999 Canadian English
17120 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17120 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17120 The Wolf Border Sarah Hall 2015 British English
17120 The Family Chao Lan Samantha Chang 2022 American English
17120 The Impersonators Jessica Anderson 1980 Australian English
17120 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17120 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17120 Loving Corrections adrienne maree brown 2024 Unknown English
17120 Bitter And Sweet Rhonda McKnight 2024 Unknown English
17120 Evening Class Maeve Binchy 1996 Irish English
17120 Murder At School James Hilton 1931 British English
17120 The Golf Omnibus P. G. Wodehouse 1966 British English
17120 Joe Di Maggio Richard Ben Cramer 2000 American English
17120 Blue Skies T. C. Boyle 2023 American English
17120 The Republic Of Dreams Nélida Piñon 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum 2008 American English
17120 Ankomst Gøhril Gabrielsen 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 A Modern Family Helga Flatland 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 Those Whom I Would Like To Meet Again Giedra Radvilavičiūtė 2013 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17120 Tūla Jurgis Kunčinas 1993 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17120 Bluebeard’s First Wife Ha Seong-nan 2002 Korean Korean
17120 Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho 2003 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
17120 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17120 Skinflick Joseph Hansen 1979 American English
17120 Maurice And Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 2024 Unknown English
17120 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17120 I Was Told There'd Be Cake Sloane Crosley 2008 American English
17120 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17120 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17120 The Beast Walter Dean Myers 2003 American English
17120 May Contain Lies Alex Edmans Unknown Unknown
17120 George And Martha James Marshall 1972 American English
17120 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17120 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17120 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17120 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17120 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 I Swear I'll Make It Up To You Mishka Shubaly 2016 American English
17120 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17120 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17120 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17120 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17120 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
17120 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17120 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17120 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17045 Valentino / Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg 1957 Italian Italian
17120 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17120 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17120 City Of Libertines William G. Hardy 1957 Unknown English
16768 And Walk In Love Henrietta Buckmaster 1956 American English
17120 Moshi Moshi Banana Yoshimoto 2010 Japanese Japanese
17120 Girlfriend On Mars Deborah Willis 2023 Canadian English
17120 Archangel Andrea Barrett 2013 American English
17120 A Second Chance For Yesterday RA Sinn 2023 Unknown English
17120 I Feel Love Rachel Nuwer 2023 Unknown English
17120 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17120 About Ed Robert Gluck 2023 Unknown English
17120 Yesterday Tobias Becker 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American Unknown
17120 Naked In The Rideshare Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 The Long Form Kate Briggs 2023 Unknown English
17120 On Marriage Devorah Baum 2023 Unknown English
17120 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17120 American Poly Christopher M. Gleason 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 The English Experience Julie Schumacher 2023 American English
17120 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17120 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
17120 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17120 Console Colin Channer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17120 Wednesday’s Child Yiyun Li 2023 American English
17120 I’m A Fan Sheena Patel 2023 Unknown English
17120 Dragon Palace Hiromi Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17120 The Details Ia Genberg 2023 Unknown Swedish