Best Books About Relationships: Top 10 [2024 Update]

What are the best books on relationships and love? Which books are really useful about how to start/improve your relationship? In this overview, you will find the most appreciated relationship books. Sometimes romantic, sometimes about the difficult aspects of love. Read along…

Best relationship books ever

We start our recommendations with the top 10 best books about Relationships of all time. This list has been updated this year, including all the recent titles.

Best Books About Relationships	Author
When Sorry Isn’t Enough	Jennifer Thomas
Tiny Beautiful Things	Tiny Beautiful Things
The Wisdom of Sundays	The Wisdom of Sundays
The Bright Hour	The Bright Hour
Tell Me More	Tell Me More
Love, Sex and Staying Warm	Neil Rosenthal
The 5 Love Languages	The 5 Love Languages
I’ll Push You	Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck
Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married	Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married
I Hear You	I Hear You

The updated top 10 list: the best books about relationships

Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex 

Michael Todd discusses relationship goals as seen from God’s point of view. What he shares is honest and touching, and you will learn from this book what real goals to set for yourself and your relationship in this life.

Healthy Relationships: Overcome Anxiety, Couple Conflicts, Insecurity and Depression without therapy. Stop Jealousy and Negative Thinking. Learn how to have a Happy Relationship with anyone.

If you don’t want to see a therapist and do the hard work yourself, we recommend you read this guide on creating healthy relationships. The steps to follow are described clearly, and the effects are remarkable.

The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships

According to the two writers of this book, there are seven secrets to a fulfilling relationship: freedom, commitment, healing, joy, awareness, communication, and release. Your knowledge of these secrets can help you with an existing or a future relationship.

Insecure in Love: How Anxious Attachment Can Make You Feel Jealous, Needy, and Worried and What You Can Do About It

When your partner gives you negative feedback on your character, this might be just too much to process, and anxious attachment may then be the result. Letting go of attachment anxiety is the main goal of this book by Leslie Becker-Phelps. Let go of your patterns and grow as a person and in your relationship with others.

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

After a number of months or years, your relationship can become boring. ‘The 5 Love Languages’ can help anyone improve their relationship. Showing your affection and getting it back in return will be the greatest reward for investing in you and your partner.

Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents

We like this book on the relationship between parents and their adult children, because it can be a complicated matter to let go and stay close at the same time. It is written for both parties and gives advice on how to keep the relationship healthy.

Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection 

If you are wondering if you and your partner share some healthy habits, then you must read this book. It will help you be more intimate and connected by doing the exercises. Stop reacting and start interacting.

Love is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships

Codependency can play a big role in relationships, and if you are codependent, you might want to buy this book and start with your recovery. The journey of recovery is explain in 10 stages.

Keep Your Love On: Connection Communication And Boundaries

True love means not choosing the easy way out and walking away when life gets hard. Mature love doesn’t do that, it weathers the storm and takes necessary actions to save a relationship no matter what.

Building Open Relationships: Your hands on guide to swinging, polyamory, and beyond!

If you are interested in the specifics of open relationships, then we advise you to order listen to or read this book. It tells you exactly how open relationships work, and how to shape your life if you are non-monogamous.