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
3523 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
801 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 1920 British English
5678 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
1397 The BFG Roald Dahl 1982 British English
15777 The Morning Is Near Us Susan Glaspell 1940 American English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
15778 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
5841 The Girl From Samos Menander -342 Greek Ancient greek
760 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh 1928 British English
1308 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1897 French French
518 The Odes Horace 23 Roman Latin
15779 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
7811 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
17120 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
329 History Elsa Morante 1974 Italian Italian
2525 The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton 1925 British English
958 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1975 Italian Italian
14984 Wild at Heart Barry Gifford 1990 American English
5581 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
651 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1925 American English
1385 The Bell Iris Murdoch 1958 British English
3197 The Gospel Of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer 100 Unknown English
15780 Other Gods Pearl S. Buck 1940 American English
498 The Immoralist André Gide 1902 French French
17120 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
17120 Gossamer Lois Lowry 2006 American English
6098 The History of Rome Livy -27 Roman Latin
17120 Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz 1997 Mexican English
13336 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
17120 Paradigms Lost John L. Casti 1989 American English
15781 Stars On The Sea F. Van Wyck Mason 1940 American English
14762 The Histories Polybius -150 Greek Greek
4681 The Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1924 American English
617 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 1957 Russian English
684 The Adventures Of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 Italian Italian
2242 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
15782 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
5309 The Emperor's Children Claire Messud 2006 American English
14984 Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer 2008 American English
3122 Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto 1988 Japanese Japanese
1112 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
15783 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
6234 The Affirmation Christopher Priest 1981 British English
1253 Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes 1959 British English
138 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 1839 French French
11598 Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
15784 Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton 1940 Canadian English
1087 Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
11056 Coin Locker Babies Ryū Murakami 1980 Japanese Japanese
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
17120 The Fate Of Reason Frederick C. Beiser 1987 American English
5010 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
2213 Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal 1965 Czech Czech
6158 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 American English
2060 Ghost Story Peter Straub 1979 American English
6611 Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker 2020 American English
17120 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English
14818 Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands Jorge Amado, Harriet de Onís 1966 Brazilian Portuguese
2195 Portrait Of Jennie Robert Nathan 1940 American English
15786 Critique Of Religion And Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann 1958 American English
15787 Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
823 The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 American English
3019 Before Lunch Angela Thirkell 1939 British English
9886 Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev 1934 Russian Russian
11925 Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007 American English
347 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 American English
17120 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750 1900 Michael J. Crowe 1986 American English
8546 Down Under Bill Bryson 2000 American English
7021 The Girl On The Train Paula Hawkins 2015 British English
4620 Rising Tide John Barry 1997 American English
974 The Poems of John Keats John Keats 1817 British English
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
1331 Cathedral Raymond Carver 1983 American English
15788 Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 1954 American English
316 Pensées Blaise Pascal 1670 French French
8223 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
11838 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
15789 World's End Upton Sinclair 1940 American English
14815 Old Yeller Fred Gipson 1956 American English
3609 The Knights Aristophanes -424 Greek Ancient greek
2594 Bid Time Return Richard Matheson 1975 American English
15790 Mr. Skeffington Elizabeth 1940 British English
2244 The Gathering Anne Enright 2007 Irish English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
4654 Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me Javier Marias 1994 Spanish Spanish
799 Kaputt Curzio Malaparte 1944 Italian Italian
2738 My Friend Flicka Mary O'Hara 1941 American English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
1093 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 1979 Czech Czech
1135 The Tunnel Ernesto Sábato 1948 Argentinian Spanish
806 The Story of Art Ernest H. Gombrich 1950 British English
227 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence 1920 British English
17120 Playing For Keeps David Halberstam 1999 American English
5842 A Month In The Country Ivan Turgenev 1855 Russian Russian
17120 Ember Lane Sheila Kaye-Smith British English
17120 If The Universe Is Teeming With Aliens ... Where Is Everybody? Second Edition Stephen Webb 2015 British English
8747 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
5514 Hell House Richard Matheson 1971 American English
13941 Saga Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan 2012 American English
925 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
416 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 1937 Danish Danish
1588 The Guns of August Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1962 American English
8988 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
464 Petrarch's Songbook Francesco Petrarca 1341 Italian Italian
4158 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
17120 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
2669 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
6293 Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 2006 American English
1050 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi 1990 British English
5843 The Mother In Law Terence -160 Roman Latin
17120 Master At Arms Rafael Sabatini British English
2070 The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter 1955 American English
2451 Joy in the Morning P. G. Wodehouse 1946 British English
5407 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
6529 The Hating Game Sally Thorne 2016 Australian English
1835 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 1991 Norwegian Norwegian
3451 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English