Our Users' Honorable Mention Favorite Books of All Time

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The Honorable Mention Greatest Books determined by the users of this web site. There's another list for the Top 100. This is our user's favorite books starting at number 101.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
5916 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
1705 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
1255 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus -455 Greek Ancient greek
7826 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
11500 On The Crown Demosthenes -330 Greek Ancient greek
329 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951 British English
8875 Chronicles Bob Dylan 2004 American English
17010 Shrek! William Steig 1990 American English
922 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
14666 On The Ends Of Good And Evil Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
14901 The Robots Of Dawn Isaac Asimov 1983 American English
5816 On The Gods Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
1297 Poetics Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
482 Jakob Von Gunten Robert Walser 1909 Swiss German
934 Martin Eden Jack London 1909 American English
17010 Mickey7 Edward Ashton 2022 American English
667 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
17010 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami 2013 Japanese Japanese
5100 Dancing In Odessa Ilya Kaminsky 2004 Ukrainian English
1388 On The Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero -55 Roman Latin
14646 The Naked Sun Isaac Asimov 1957 American English
5476 Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty 2014 Australian English
1240 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José Saramago 1984 Portuguese Portuguese
6322 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
5817 On The Sublime Longinus -50 Greek Greek
641 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 American English
227 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
762 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge 1949 French French
17010 The River Of Doubt Candice Millard 2005 American English
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
3126 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
7904 Red Rising Pierce Brown 2014 American English
3230 The Radiant Way Margaret Drabble 1987 British English
2564 The Caves Of Steel Isaac Asimov 1954 American English
1806 Beware Of Pity Stefan Zweig 1939 Austrian German
1718 Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959 British English
2518 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
501 Another Country James Baldwin 1962 American English
5179 Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Chinese English
941 Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1945 American English
1077 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
469 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1907 British English
4219 Orestes Euripides -408 Greek Ancient greek
11501 Orpheus and Eurydice Unknown -28 Unknown Ancient greek
439 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943 American English
5728 Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje 2000 Canadian English
6641 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
559 The Recognitions William Gaddis 1955 American English
172 Man's Fate Andre Malraux 1933 French French
4987 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
793 The Royal Game Stefan Zweig 1941 Austrian German
1872 And the Band Played On Randy Shilts 1987 American English
14667 Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus -180 Greek Greek
724 The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier 1949 Cuban Spanish
8005 The Story Of A Heart Rachel Clarke 2024 Unknown English
1154 Three Lives Gertrude Stein 1909 American English
380 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 1952 American English
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
1002 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1214 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
2539 Camilla Fanny Burney 1796 British English
7123 Bury Your Dead Louise Penny 2010 Canadian English
15639 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
1444 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 British English
17010 A Good Marriage Stephen King 2010 American English
2187 Trojan Women Euripides -415 Greek Ancient greek
201 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 German German
4772 Pharsalia Lucan 61 Roman Latin
17010 Tides Of Fire James Rollins 2023 American English
1868 The Recognition of Sakuntala Kālidāsa -400 Indian Sanskrit
1293 Salem's Lot Stephen King 1975 American English
5258 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
2153 A Personal Matter Kenzaburō Ōe 1964 Japanese Japanese
17010 Robots And Empire Isaac Asimov 1985 American English
13324 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1974 American English
5608 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 1978 American English
9904 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
14669 Physics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
1277 A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes 1929 British English
17010 Limitless Jim Kwik 2020 American English
6264 American Tabloid James Ellroy 1995 American English
3308 Satires Juvenal 100 Roman Latin
2835 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
1820 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
17010 The Eye Of God James Rollins 2013 American English
4070 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand 2001 American English
5820 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
17010 Teacher Man Frank McCourt 2005 American English
7562 The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux 1981 American English
17010 The Joy Of Movement Kelly McGonigal 2019 American English
17010 Bloodline James Rollins 2012 American English
8439 March John Lewis 2013 American English
17010 How To Read Literature Like A Professor Thomas C. Foster 2003 American English
5821 Poems Archilochos -650 Greek Ancient greek
14256 Range David Epstein 2019 American English
277 A Wizard Of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 American English
7634 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
14901 A Disaffection James Kelman 1989 Scottish English
4387 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
3311 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
17010 A Song Of Ice And Fire George R. R. Martin 2011 American English
649 The Praise of Folly Erasmus 1511 Dutch Latin
17010 Map Of Bones James Rollins 2005 American English
429 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 1948 American English
17010 The Gift Of Asher Lev Chaim Potok 1990 American English
1390 Voices from Chernobyl Svetlana Alexievich 1997 Belarusian Russian
271 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 'Tis Frank McCourt 1999 American English
5939 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
2081 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
17010 The Undefeated Kwame Alexander 2019 American English
17010 The Demon Crown James Rollins 2017 American English
2563 Poetry Quintus Lutatius Catulus -89 Roman Latin
17010 The Starless Crown James Rollins 2022 American English
5095 Abel Sánchez Miguel de Unamuno 1917 Spanish Spanish
6253 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 2001 British English
17010 Writing Down The Bones Natalie Goldberg 1986 American English
17010 Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes Rick Riordan 2015 American English
3422 The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi 1944 Canadian English