"Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List

1.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,117 ratings
2.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,774 ratings
3.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,158 ratings
4.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,297 ratings
5.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,139 ratings
6.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,086 ratings
7.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,795 ratings
8.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,251 ratings
9.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,762 ratings
10.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,687 ratings
11.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,010 ratings
12.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View 3.90 avg rating — 197,363 ratings
13.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,336 ratings
14.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,643 ratings
15.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,047 ratings
16.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,968 ratings
17.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,079 ratings
18.
I Capture the Castle
I Capture the Castle 3.99 avg rating — 113,034 ratings
19.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,829 ratings
20.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,803 ratings
21.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,577 ratings
22.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,417 ratings
23.
The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,380 ratings
24.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,107 ratings
25.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,194 ratings
26.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories 3.83 avg rating — 286,564 ratings
27.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
28.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,865 ratings
29.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,474 ratings
30.
Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,121 ratings
31.
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair 3.90 avg rating — 68,989 ratings
32.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,430 ratings
33.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,915 ratings
34.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,863 ratings
35.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,864 ratings
36.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,100 ratings
37.
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 696,619 ratings
38.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,857 ratings
39.
The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,224 ratings
40.
The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions
by: M.M. Kaye
4.20 avg rating — 44,842 ratings
41.
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 21,961 ratings
42.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 74,822 ratings
43.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,182 ratings
44.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,274 ratings
45.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,614 ratings
46.
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage 4.15 avg rating — 60,343 ratings
47.
The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart 3.64 avg rating — 8,891 ratings
48.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,837 ratings
49.
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion 3.67 avg rating — 28,235 ratings
50.
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides 3.78 avg rating — 395,312 ratings
51.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,055 ratings
52.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,057 ratings
53.
Love Story (Love Story, #1)
Love Story (Love Story, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 63,442 ratings
54.
Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse 3.73 avg rating — 66,216 ratings
55.
Adam Bede
Adam Bede 3.82 avg rating — 26,146 ratings
56.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist 3.90 avg rating — 107,779 ratings
57.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice 3.69 avg rating — 65,709 ratings
58.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow 3.70 avg rating — 21,411 ratings
59.
The Passion
The Passion 4.11 avg rating — 25,839 ratings
60.
The Night Watch
The Night Watch 3.71 avg rating — 32,758 ratings
61.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Grand Meaulnes 3.72 avg rating — 14,906 ratings
62.
The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,143 ratings
63.
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
by: Colette
3.89 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
64.
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone 3.73 avg rating — 16,261 ratings
65.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating — 148,951 ratings
66.
Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus 3.61 avg rating — 24,713 ratings
67.
Regency Buck (Alastair-Audley, #3)
Regency Buck (Alastair-Audley, #3) 3.98 avg rating — 12,367 ratings
68.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,327 ratings
69.
A Heart So White
A Heart So White 4.02 avg rating — 17,234 ratings
69.
A Month in the Country
A Month in the Country
by: J.L. Carr
4.09 avg rating — 23,465 ratings
69.
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls 3.86 avg rating — 75,302 ratings
72.
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda 3.86 avg rating — 26,587 ratings
73.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,141 ratings
74.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda 3.73 avg rating — 21,640 ratings
75.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road 3.93 avg rating — 92,051 ratings
76.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating — 53,058 ratings
77.
Beauty and Sadness
Beauty and Sadness 3.81 avg rating — 14,577 ratings
78.
The Map of Love
The Map of Love 3.81 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
79.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,014 ratings
80.
Music & Silence
Music & Silence 3.95 avg rating — 4,800 ratings
81.
A Sport and a Pastime
A Sport and a Pastime 3.65 avg rating — 11,087 ratings
82.
First Love
First Love 3.76 avg rating — 23,179 ratings
83.
An Infamous Army (Alastair-Audley, #4)
An Infamous Army (Alastair-Audley, #4) 3.72 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
84.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.60 avg rating — 14,251 ratings
85.
The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose 4.16 avg rating — 5,461 ratings
86.
Samarkand
Samarkand 4.24 avg rating — 30,675 ratings
87.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3.60 avg rating — 6,830 ratings
88.
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 76,596 ratings
89.
Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.66 avg rating — 32,320 ratings
90.
Dom Casmurro
Dom Casmurro 4.32 avg rating — 36,381 ratings
90.
Ruth
Ruth 3.86 avg rating — 9,376 ratings
92.
A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady 3.72 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
93.
The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher 3.60 avg rating — 15,368 ratings
94.
Victory
Victory 3.84 avg rating — 4,203 ratings
95.
Light Years
Light Years 4.02 avg rating — 7,802 ratings
96.
All Souls' Day
All Souls' Day 3.68 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
97.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins 3.88 avg rating — 345,761 ratings
98.
Claudine at School
Claudine at School
by: Colette
3.72 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
99.
The Weather in the Streets
The Weather in the Streets 3.96 avg rating — 999 ratings
99.
Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,354 ratings
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