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
17010 Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes Rick Riordan 2015 American English
3422 The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi 1944 Canadian English
8301 Subterranean James Rollins 1999 American English
5822 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
6284 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
8222 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters J. D. Salinger 1963 American English
2300 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 British English
8388 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
17010 A Closed And Common Orbit Becky Chambers 2016 American English
450 Hiroshima John Hersey 1946 American English
4220 Satires Horace 35 Latin Latin
7692 On The Beach Nevil Shute 1957 Australian English
17010 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 1989 American English
755 The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz 1950 Mexican Spanish
1104 The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1987 British English
841 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
6321 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6703 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
17010 The 6th Extinction James Rollins 2014 American English
17010 The Devil Colony James Rollins 2011 American English
1407 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty 1971 American English
505 The Quran Unknown 610 Arabic Arabic
10252 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
4857 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
17010 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17010 Black Order James Rollins 2006 American English
4596 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
14901 Naked David Sedaris 1997 American English
550 Satyricon Petronius 65 Roman Latin
17010 The Blood Gospel James Rollins 2013 American English
627 Nights At The Circus Angela Carter 1984 British English
3055 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
2500 Pastoralia George Saunders 2000 American English
14165 The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 American English
5823 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
17010 Record Of A Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers 2018 American English
17010 The Judas Strain James Rollins 2007 American English
4986 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
1079 Upanishads Unknown -799 Indian Sanskrit
17010 We Are In A Book! Mo Willems 2010 American English
3916 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
17010 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
6406 The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan 2001 American English
5560 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng 2014 American English
10574 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
11502 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
464 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
1347 Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus -467 Greek Ancient greek
10424 Empire Of Cotton Sven Beckert 2014 American English
17010 The Narrow Road Between Desires Patrick Rothfuss Unknown Unknown
420 Ramayana Valmiki -200 Indian Sanskrit
4572 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
14165 Where Is The Green Sheep? Mem Fox 2004 Australian English
14901 Arthur And George Julian Barnes 2005 British English
15645 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
17010 The Last Odyssey James Rollins 2020 American English
424 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
1005 The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 1961 American English
5824 Six Tragedies Seneca 54 Roman Latin
17010 Messenger Lois Lowry 2004 American English
454 V Thomas Pynchon 1963 American English
14696 White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky 1848 Russian Russian
1537 On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 German German
4634 Memoirs Of A Midget Walter de la Mare 1921 British English
4623 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
17010 Percy Jackson's Greek Gods Rick Riordan 2014 American English
17010 All The Tides Of Fate Adalyn Grace 2021 American English
636 Being and Nothingness Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
962 The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos 1936 French French
665 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
2583 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
2622 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
14108 Wife Bharati Mukherjee 1975 Indian English
10424 We Don’t Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole 2021 Irish English
17010 The Doomsday Key James Rollins 2009 American English
3488 The Claw Of The Conciliator Gene Wolfe 1981 American English
15646 Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
11603 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
13890 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson 1995 American English
4773 The Art Of Love Ovid 2 Roman Latin
1399 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
363 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
5031 Woman Natalie Angier 1999 American English
5732 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
4152 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes -391 Greek Ancient greek
9890 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
5465 Working Studs Terkel 1974 American English
15649 The Complete Writings Of Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Thucydides -431 Greek Ancient greek
2380 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler 1988 American English
434 El Aleph Jorge Luis Borges 1949 Argentinian Spanish
6402 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
1885 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
4630 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
2693 Wise Children Angela Carter 1991 British English
15648 Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot 1939 American English
467 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 American English
7720 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
17010 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
435 Passing Nella Larsen 1929 American English
6510 City of the Beasts Isabel Allende 2002 Chilean Spanish
543 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
1852 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
15650 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
1070 The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson 1948 American English
807 The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 1963 American English
1764 Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 Irish English
6518 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
230 Death of Virgil Hermann Broch 1945 Austrian German
17010 Whiteout Ken Follett 2004 British English
1382 The Birds Aristophanes -414 Greek Ancient greek
940 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
2046 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
5825 The Braggart Soldier Plautus -204 Roman Latin
1751 The Long Ships Frans G. Bengtsson 1941 Swedish Swedish
6084 The Secret History Of The World Jonathan Black 2007 British English
13890 Ninth House Leigh Bardugo 2019 American English
2522 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 2019 American English
427 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian
15651 J.R.R. Tolkien 4 Book Boxed Set J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
17010 Always Looking Up Michael J. Fox 2009 American English