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
13941 Ninth House Leigh Bardugo 2019 American English
15772 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
6094 The Secret History Of The World Jonathan Black 2007 British English
2527 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 2019 American English
5836 The Braggart Soldier Plautus -204 Roman Latin
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
429 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
17152 Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree 2022 American English
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
17152 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
2275 Long Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela 1994 South African English
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
14985 Death Without Weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1992 American English
14697 The Brothers Menaechmus Plautus -184 Roman Latin
4469 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
7175 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
9053 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 2014 American English
2076 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
4395 We The Animals Justin Torres 2011 American English
5837 Miss Susie Slagle's Augusta Tucker 1939 American English
4305 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
1459 The City of God Augustine 413 Roman Latin
2342 Mastro Don Gesualdo Giovanni Verga 1889 Italian Italian
1263 The Summer Book Tove Jansson 1972 Finnish Swedish
17152 The Good Neighbor Maxwell King 2018 American English
17152 Super Cannes J. G. Ballard 2000 British English
6763 Citizen And Subject Mahmood Mamdani 1996 Ugandan English
1736 Mary Poppins P. L. Travers 1934 British English
17152 Wilderness Essays John Muir American English
932 The Clouds Aristophanes -423 Greek Ancient greek
14757 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
5838 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
6319 The Power Of Habit Charles Duhigg 2012 American English
14232 The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson 2008 British English
17152 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
17152 The Next Accident Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
3084 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930 British English
719 Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata 1952 Japanese Japanese
17152 Mefisto Kulübü Tess Gerritsen 2006 American English
2208 Trainspotting Irvine Welsh 1993 Scottish English
774 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 British English
296 The Lover Marguerite Duras 1984 French French
595 Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler 1940 American English
15773 Oh, Promised Land James Street 1940 American English
1694 Cassandra Christa Wolf 1983 German German
14985 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14985 Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 2021 American English
4783 Ice Anna Kavan 1967 British English
1698 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
5622 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
2449 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
15774 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1973 Senegalese French
17152 This Land Is Ours Louis Zara Unknown Unknown
5636 Book Lovers Emily Henry 2021 American English
7670 Julián Is A Mermaid Jessica Love 2018 American English
17152 Last Kingdom Series Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
1692 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
5270 I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
17152 Show Me A Land Clark McMeekin Unknown English
17152 Hoot Carl Hiaasen 2002 American English
3298 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
3546 Five Children And It Edith Nesbit 1902 British English
5231 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
1137 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West 1933 American English
4221 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
15775 Crime And Punishment Dostoyevsky 1866 Russian Russian
17152 The Lambs Of London Peter Ackroyd 2004 British English
3480 The King Of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany 1924 British English
15777 The Morning Is Near Us Susan Glaspell 1940 American English
617 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 1957 Russian English
1377 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1964 British English
471 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee 1980 South African English
14759 The Dyskolos Menander -316 Greek Ancient greek
6665 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
1002 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 American English
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
1031 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima 1956 Japanese Japanese
8334 The Last Days Of Socrates Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
1790 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
15778 Run To Daylight Vince Lombardi 1963 American English
15779 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
17152 A Drink Before The War Dennis Lehane 1994 American English
14985 This Will Be Fun E. B. Asher 2024 Unknown English
2985 The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice 1985 American English
697 The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald 1995 German German
17152 Blood Ties Kay Hooper 2007 American English
15780 Other Gods Pearl S. Buck 1940 American English
5840 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
1594 The Imaginary Invalid Molière 1673 French French
2839 The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence 1964 Canadian English
1669 The Underdogs Mariano Azuela 1915 Mexican Spanish
910 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1985 American English
4226 The Frogs Aristophanes -405 Greek Ancient greek
2639 Fatherland Robert Harris 1992 British English
15781 Stars On The Sea F. Van Wyck Mason 1940 American English
15782 The Scapegoat Daphne du Maurier 1957 British English
17152 The Age Of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker 2012 American English
14985 Skellig David Almond 1998 British English
7042 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
15783 The Doll Bolesław Prus 1949 Polish Polish
8408 On Human Nature E. O. Wilson 1978 American English
11531 Poems of Matsuo Bashō Matsuo Bashō 1601 Japanese Japanese
17152 Sweet Dream Baby Sterling Watson 2002 American English
856 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
15784 Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton 1940 Canadian English
1302 Poems Paul Celan 1952 German German
2338 The Pearl John Steinbeck 1947 American English
3299 The Gallic War And Other Writings Gaius Julius Caesar -58 Roman Latin
7214 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
9905 The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan 1995 American English
16623 Bunnicula Deborah Howe 1979 American English
14985 The Wedding People Alison Espach 2024 Unknown English
519 Call It Sleep Henry Roth 1934 American English
4889 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
15786 A Book Of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi 1645 Japanese
5240 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber 1983 American English
3902 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
326 The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 1953 Irish French
5977 1491 Charles C. Mann 2005 American English