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
17152 'Tis Frank McCourt 1999 American English
1315 Voices from Chernobyl Svetlana Alexievich 1997 Belarusian Russian
8405 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
2086 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
5104 Abel Sánchez Miguel de Unamuno 1917 Spanish Spanish
3427 The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi 1944 Canadian English
6264 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 2001 British English
8238 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters J. D. Salinger 1963 American English
17152 Writing Down The Bones Natalie Goldberg 1986 American English
17152 Sandstorm James Rollins 2004 American English
17152 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 1989 American English
5833 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
6295 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
451 Hiroshima John Hersey 1946 American English
8317 Subterranean James Rollins 1999 American English
2307 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 British English
7707 On The Beach Nevil Shute 1957 Australian English
4225 Satires Horace 35 Latin Latin
17152 Record Of A Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers 2018 American English
756 The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz 1950 Mexican Spanish
10275 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
17152 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
6332 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
1107 The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1987 British English
17152 The Devil Colony James Rollins 2011 American English
17152 The 6th Extinction James Rollins 2014 American English
17152 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
4866 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4604 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
17152 Black Order James Rollins 2006 American English
14985 Naked David Sedaris 1997 American English
1398 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty 1971 American English
5834 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
628 Nights At The Circus Angela Carter 1984 British English
3063 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
14232 The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 American English
2505 Pastoralia George Saunders 2000 American English
17152 The Blood Gospel James Rollins 2013 American English
17152 The Narrow Road Between Desires Patrick Rothfuss Unknown Unknown
554 Satyricon Petronius 65 Roman Latin
4996 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
17152 The Judas Strain James Rollins 2007 American English
14784 White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky 1848 Russian Russian
17152 We Are In A Book! Mo Willems 2010 American English
17152 Percy Jackson's Greek Gods Rick Riordan 2014 American English
14985 I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman 1995 Belgian French
11528 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
465 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
6417 The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan 2001 American English
5568 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng 2014 American English
1007 The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 1961 American English
17152 The Last Odyssey James Rollins 2020 American English
14232 Where Is The Green Sheep? Mem Fox 2004 Australian English
1350 Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus -467 Greek Ancient greek
10451 Empire Of Cotton Sven Beckert 2014 American English
410 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
15763 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
14985 Arthur And George Julian Barnes 2005 British English
15764 Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
422 Ramayana Valmiki -200 Indian Sanskrit
4578 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
455 V Thomas Pynchon 1963 American English
4631 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
17152 Messenger Lois Lowry 2004 American English
5835 Six Tragedies Seneca 54 Roman Latin
4642 Memoirs Of A Midget Walter de la Mare 1921 British English
1539 On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 German German
2625 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
638 Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
17152 All The Tides Of Fate Adalyn Grace 2021 American English
962 The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos 1936 French French
667 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
2587 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
365 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
10451 We Don’t Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole 2021 Irish English
3491 The Claw Of The Conciliator Gene Wolfe 1981 American English
13941 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson 1995 American English
11629 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
4782 The Art Of Love Ovid 2 Roman Latin
17152 The Doomsday Key James Rollins 2009 American English
14173 Wife Bharati Mukherjee 1975 Indian English
1400 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
9908 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
4157 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes -391 Greek Ancient greek
5743 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
5040 Woman Natalie Angier 1999 American English
436 El Aleph Jorge Luis Borges 1949 Argentinian Spanish
15765 J.R.R. Tolkien 4 Book Boxed Set J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
1073 The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson 1948 American English
2388 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 American English
4638 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
7737 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
2697 Wise Children Angela Carter 1991 British English
469 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 American English
1886 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
15766 The Complete Writings Of Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Thucydides -431 Greek Ancient greek
6413 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
5474 Working Studs Terkel 1974 American English
2442 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1939 British English
15767 Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot 1939 American English
15770 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
15769 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
6531 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
941 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
1768 Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 Irish English
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
540 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
17152 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
6522 City of the Beasts Isabel Allende 2002 Chilean Spanish
437 Passing Nella Larsen 1929 American English
231 Death of Virgil Hermann Broch 1945 Austrian German
17152 Whiteout Ken Follett 2004 British English
1753 The Long Ships Frans G. Bengtsson 1941 Swedish Swedish
15771 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
1383 The Birds Aristophanes -414 Greek Ancient greek
488 The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993 Canadian English
429 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian