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
14616 The Brothers Menaechmus Plautus -184 Roman Latin
2267 Long Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela 1994 South African English
4463 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
14901 Death Without Weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1992 American English
7159 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
17010 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
6751 Citizen And Subject Mahmood Mamdani 1996 Ugandan English
17010 Super Cannes J. G. Ballard 2000 British English
3205 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
1459 The City of God Augustine 413 Roman Latin
9035 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 2014 American English
4298 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
2335 Mastro Don Gesualdo Giovanni Verga 1889 Italian Italian
2071 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
4390 We The Animals Justin Torres 2011 American English
1263 The Summer Book Tove Jansson 1972 Finnish Swedish
14165 The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson 2008 British English
17010 Wilderness Essays John Muir American English
6308 The Power Of Habit Charles Duhigg 2012 American English
5827 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
931 The Clouds Aristophanes -423 Greek Ancient greek
3076 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930 British English
17010 When Victims Become Killers Mahmood Mamdani 2001 American English
17010 The Next Accident Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
718 Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata 1952 Japanese Japanese
14901 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
17010 Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree 2022 American English
773 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 British English
1692 Cassandra Christa Wolf 1983 German German
17010 Mefisto Kulübü Tess Gerritsen 2006 American English
296 The Lover Marguerite Duras 1984 French French
14901 Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 2021 American English
1696 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
15652 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1973 Senegalese French
17010 The Good Neighbor Maxwell King 2018 American English
4774 Ice Anna Kavan 1967 British English
2444 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
1690 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
17010 Hoot Carl Hiaasen 2002 American English
1734 Mary Poppins P. L. Travers 1934 British English
5628 Book Lovers Emily Henry 2021 American English
7654 Julián Is A Mermaid Jessica Love 2018 American English
17010 Last Kingdom Series Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
17010 The Lambs Of London Peter Ackroyd 2004 British English
3542 Five Children And It Edith Nesbit 1902 British English
1376 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1964 British English
3292 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
1136 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West 1933 American English
4216 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
5222 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
8318 The Last Days Of Socrates Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
1082 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 American English
14671 The Dyskolos Menander -316 Greek Ancient greek
1787 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
15654 Run To Daylight Vince Lombardi 1963 American English
3608 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
6652 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
17010 A Drink Before The War Dennis Lehane 1994 American English
1590 The Imaginary Invalid Molière 1673 French French
17010 Blood Ties Kay Hooper 2007 American English
2978 The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice 1985 American English
2833 The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence 1964 Canadian English
1028 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima 1956 Japanese Japanese
5828 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
696 The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald 1995 German German
15655 The Scapegoat Daphne du Maurier 1957 British English
4221 The Frogs Aristophanes -405 Greek Ancient greek
7029 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
17010 The Age Of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker 2012 American English
909 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1985 American English
15656 The Doll Bolesław Prus 1949 Polish Polish
3477 The King Of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany 1924 British English
1668 The Underdogs Mariano Azuela 1915 Mexican Spanish
14901 Skellig David Almond 1998 British English
2635 Fatherland Robert Harris 1992 British English
3293 The Gallic War And Other Writings Gaius Julius Caesar -58 Roman Latin
519 Call It Sleep Henry Roth 1934 American English
1302 Poems Paul Celan 1952 German German
14901 The Wedding People Alison Espach 2024 Unknown English
855 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
9887 The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan 1995 American English
16487 Bunnicula Deborah Howe 1979 American English
4880 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
14901 This Will Be Fun E. B. Asher 2024 Unknown English
470 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee 1980 South African English
17010 Sweet Dream Baby Sterling Watson 2002 American English
7198 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
8391 On Human Nature E. O. Wilson 1978 American English
5829 The Girl From Andros Terence -166 Roman Latin
5231 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber 1983 American English
3896 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
15658 A Book Of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi 1645 Japanese
339 The Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac 1830 French French
15659 Crime And Punishment Dostoyevsky 1866 Russian Russian
324 The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 1953 Irish French
5966 1491 Charles C. Mann 2005 American English
14901 I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman 1995 Belgian French
334 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani 1962 Italian Italian
1213 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse 1959 British English
14901 Practical Magic Alice Hoffman 1995 American English
5830 The Girl From Samos Menander -342 Greek Ancient greek
2052 Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme 1981 American English
15661 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
6285 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 2011 American English
1397 The BFG Roald Dahl 1982 British English
800 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 1920 British English
15662 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
2439 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1939 British English
3519 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
5670 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
1634 The Collector John Fowles 1963 British English
2521 The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton 1925 British English
759 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh 1928 British English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
15663 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
6806 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
17010 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
1308 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1897 French French
328 History Elsa Morante 1974 Italian Italian