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
8527 Sanctum Denise Mina 2002 Scottish English
8532 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8540 Any Human Heart William Boyd 2002 British English
8577 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8580 Cartas Cruzadas Darío Jaramillo 1995 Colombian Spanish
8585 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8605 The Palace Of Shattered Vessels David Shahar 1962 Israeli Hebrew
8625 Lovesick Ángeles Mastretta 1996 Mexican Spanish
8634 Donde Las Mujeres Álvaro Pombo 1996 Spanish Spanish
8636 Unformed Landscape Peter Stamm 2001 Swiss German
8646 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8653 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8650 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8686 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
8695 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8699 Silence Of The Grave Arnaldur Indriðason 2003 Icelandic Icelandic
8708 The Dead Of Jericho Colin Dexter 1981 British English
8710 Sweet Talk Stephanie Vaughn 1990 American English
8715 La Cuadratura Del Círculo Álvaro Pombo 1995 Spanish Spanish
8724 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey 1965 Canadian English
8726 The History of Silence Pedro Zarraluki 1995 Spanish Spanish
8736 Second Skin John Hawkes 1964 American English
8750 Running Away Jean-Philippe Toussaint 2005 French French
8753 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
8795 Heave Christy Ann Conlin 2002 Canadian English
8811 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8824 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8848 My Lives Edmund White 2005 American English
8851 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8858 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8870 When Katie Met Cassidy Camille Perri 2018 American English
8880 I'll Go To Bed At Noon Gerard Woodward 2004 British English
8899 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8906 Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent 2014 Irish English
8907 Carreteras Secundarias Ignacio Martínez de Pisón 1996 Spanish Spanish
8915 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
8932 Cordelia And Other Stories Françoise Mallet-Joris 1958 French French
8959 Devices And Desires P. D. James 1989 British English
8968 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
8975 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
8988 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9001 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9007 T Zero Italo Calvino 1967 Italian Italian
9007 That Voice Robert Pinget 1967 French French
9007 A Change Of Skin Carlos Fuentes 1967 Mexican Spanish
9016 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
9020 The Extra Man Jonathan Ames 1998 American English
9025 The Other Americans Laila Lalami 2019 Moroccan English
9027 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000 American English
9048 How I Live Now Meg Rosoff 2004 British English
9049 The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow 1926 American English
9055 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9072 Euphoria Lily King 2014 American English
9086 Toys In The Attic Lillian Hellman 1960 American English
9096 Rock, Paper, Scissors And Other Stories Maxim Osipov 2019 Russian Russian
9096 Eifel Liebe Jacques Berndorf 2003 German German
9123 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2005 British English
9130 My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout 2016 American English
9152 My Friend Annie Jane Duncan 1961 Scottish English
9179 Beautiful Bastard Christina Lauren 2013 American English
9191 Cost Roxana Robinson 2008 American English
9184 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9191 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9221 The Rachel Papers Martin Amis 1973 British English
9227 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9232 Jadviga Párnája Pál Závada 1996 Hungarian Hungarian
9244 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9255 Portrait Of A Man Unknown Nathalie Sarraute 1948 French French
9261 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9261 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 Indian English
9274 Angels Denis Johnson 1983 American English
9277 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9287 It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian 2020 Australian English
9301 Bleeding Heart Square Andrew Taylor 2008 British English
9308 Down To The Dirt Joel Hynes 2004 Canadian English
9315 My Husband Rumena Bužarovska 2020 Macedonian Macedonian
9321 The Beautiful Room Is Empty Edmund White 1988 American English
9325 The Road Home Rose Tremain 2007 British English
9340 Suzy Zeus Gets Organized Maggie Robbins 2000 American English
9340 Born Twice Giuseppe Pontiggia 2000 Italian Italian
9340 The Tender Land Kathleen Finneran 2000 American English
9356 Poems Of Howard Moss Howard Moss 1971 American English
9375 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9375 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9520 Astonish Me Maggie Shipstead 2014 American English
9535 Love's End Pascal Rambert 2011 French French
9538 Two Cures For Love Wendy Cope 2008 British English
9582 Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis 1975 American English
9575 Happy Endings Thien-Kim Lam 2021 Unknown English
9616 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9624 Three Women Lisa Taddeo 2019 American English
9642 All Your Perfects Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
9645 Forgetting Elena Edmund White 1973 American English
9645 Living Together Edgar Bowers 1973 American English
9657 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9670 Frozen Moment Camilla Ceder 2010 Swedish Swedish
9676 Eros Invincible Ricarda Huch 1931 German German
9678 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9713 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish
9714 The Boys In The Band Matt Crowley 1968 American English
9719 The Sunday Woman Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1972 Italian Italian
9741 A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien 1974 Irish English
9741 Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You Alice Munro 1974 Canadian English
9741 My Life As A Man Philip Roth 1974 American English
9763 Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor 2019 Irish English
9770 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9781 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9793 We Pierce Andrew Huebner 2002 American English
9798 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9817 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9825 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9829 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9833 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9850 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
9851 Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 2020 Irish English
9897 Modern Lovers Emma Straub 2016 American English
9908 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
9910 The Past Alan Pauls 2003 Argentinian Spanish