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
8493 Postcards From The Edge Carrie Fisher 1987 American English
8529 Sanctum Denise Mina 2002 Scottish English
8535 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8543 Any Human Heart William Boyd 2002 British English
8580 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8583 Cartas Cruzadas Darío Jaramillo 1995 Colombian Spanish
8588 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8608 The Palace Of Shattered Vessels David Shahar 1962 Israeli Hebrew
8628 Lovesick Ángeles Mastretta 1996 Mexican Spanish
8637 Donde Las Mujeres Álvaro Pombo 1996 Spanish Spanish
8639 Unformed Landscape Peter Stamm 2001 Swiss German
8649 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8656 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8653 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8689 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
8698 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8702 Silence Of The Grave Arnaldur Indriðason 2003 Icelandic Icelandic
8711 The Dead Of Jericho Colin Dexter 1981 British English
8713 Sweet Talk Stephanie Vaughn 1990 American English
8718 La Cuadratura Del Círculo Álvaro Pombo 1995 Spanish Spanish
8728 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey 1965 Canadian English
8730 The History of Silence Pedro Zarraluki 1995 Spanish Spanish
8740 Second Skin John Hawkes 1964 American English
8754 Running Away Jean-Philippe Toussaint 2005 French French
8757 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
8799 Heave Christy Ann Conlin 2002 Canadian English
8815 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8828 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8851 My Lives Edmund White 2005 American English
8854 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8861 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8873 When Katie Met Cassidy Camille Perri 2018 American English
8883 I'll Go To Bed At Noon Gerard Woodward 2004 British English
8902 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8909 Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent 2014 Irish English
8910 Carreteras Secundarias Ignacio Martínez de Pisón 1996 Spanish Spanish
8918 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
8935 Cordelia And Other Stories Françoise Mallet-Joris 1958 French French
8962 Devices And Desires P. D. James 1989 British English
8971 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
8978 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
8991 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9004 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9010 T Zero Italo Calvino 1967 Italian Italian
9010 That Voice Robert Pinget 1967 French French
9010 A Change Of Skin Carlos Fuentes 1967 Mexican Spanish
9019 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
9023 The Extra Man Jonathan Ames 1998 American English
9028 The Other Americans Laila Lalami 2019 Moroccan English
9030 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000 American English
9051 How I Live Now Meg Rosoff 2004 British English
9052 The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow 1926 American English
9058 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9075 Euphoria Lily King 2014 American English
9089 Toys In The Attic Lillian Hellman 1960 American English
9099 Rock, Paper, Scissors And Other Stories Maxim Osipov 2019 Russian Russian
9099 Eifel Liebe Jacques Berndorf 2003 German German
9126 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2005 British English
9133 My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout 2016 American English
9155 My Friend Annie Jane Duncan 1961 Scottish English
9181 Beautiful Bastard Christina Lauren 2013 American English
9193 Cost Roxana Robinson 2008 American English
9186 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9193 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9193 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9193 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9223 The Rachel Papers Martin Amis 1973 British English
9229 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9234 Jadviga Párnája Pál Závada 1996 Hungarian Hungarian
9246 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9257 Portrait Of A Man Unknown Nathalie Sarraute 1948 French French
9263 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9263 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 Indian English
9280 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9290 It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian 2020 Australian English
9304 Bleeding Heart Square Andrew Taylor 2008 British English
9311 Down To The Dirt Joel Hynes 2004 Canadian English
9318 My Husband Rumena Bužarovska 2020 Macedonian Macedonian
9324 The Beautiful Room Is Empty Edmund White 1988 American English
9328 The Road Home Rose Tremain 2007 British English
9343 Suzy Zeus Gets Organized Maggie Robbins 2000 American English
9343 Born Twice Giuseppe Pontiggia 2000 Italian Italian
9343 The Tender Land Kathleen Finneran 2000 American English
9359 Poems Of Howard Moss Howard Moss 1971 American English
9378 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9378 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9523 Astonish Me Maggie Shipstead 2014 American English
9538 Love's End Pascal Rambert 2011 French French
9541 Two Cures For Love Wendy Cope 2008 British English
9585 Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis 1975 American English
9578 Happy Endings Thien-Kim Lam 2021 Unknown English
9619 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9627 Three Women Lisa Taddeo 2019 American English
9646 All Your Perfects Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
9649 Forgetting Elena Edmund White 1973 American English
9649 Living Together Edgar Bowers 1973 American English
9661 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9674 Frozen Moment Camilla Ceder 2010 Swedish Swedish
9680 Eros Invincible Ricarda Huch 1931 German German
9682 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9717 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish
9718 The Boys In The Band Matt Crowley 1968 American English
9723 The Sunday Woman Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1972 Italian Italian
9745 A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien 1974 Irish English
9745 Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You Alice Munro 1974 Canadian English
9745 My Life As A Man Philip Roth 1974 American English
9767 Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor 2019 Irish English
9774 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9785 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9797 We Pierce Andrew Huebner 2002 American English
9802 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9821 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9829 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9833 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9837 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9854 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
9855 Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 2020 Irish English
9901 Modern Lovers Emma Straub 2016 American English
9912 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
9914 The Past Alan Pauls 2003 Argentinian Spanish