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
17113 The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English
3306 Henry IV, Part I William Shakespeare 1597 British English
1836 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 1991 Norwegian Norwegian
15789 Collected Poems Of T. S. Eliot 1909 1935 T. S. Eliot 1936 American English
15821 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
1241 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
15010 Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks 2005 American English
15791 The New Guide To Modern World Literature Martin Seymour-Smith 1973 British English
15010 Dark Matter Blake Crouch 2016 American English
14792 Curious George H. A. Rey 1941 American English
17113 Who Wrote The Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman 1987 American English
1361 The King In Yellow Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
614 The Persians Aeschylus -471 Greek Ancient greek
2195 Portrait Of Jennie Robert Nathan 1940 American English
15790 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
17113 Everything We Had: An Oral History Of The Vietnam War Al Santoli 1981 American English
859 The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abé 1962 Japanese Japanese
15792 The Harz Journey And Selected Prose Heinrich Heine 1826 German German
14793 Millions Of Cats Wanda Gág 1928 American English
15010 Rumpelstiltskin Paul O. Zelinsky 1986 American English
1193 The Politics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
3017 Before Lunch Angela Thirkell 1939 British English
17113 The Serpent Of Venice Christopher Moore 2014 American English
866 The Pillow Book Sei Shōnagon 1002 Japanese Japanese
5317 Faithless Joyce Carol Oates 2001 American English
15793 World's End Upton Sinclair 1940 American English
5382 Longitude Dava Sobel 1995 American English
2711 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 American English
1432 A Woman's Life Guy de Maupassant 1883 French French
14275 Catherine The Great Robert K. Massie 2011 American English
17113 The Stupidest Angel Christopher Moore 2004 American English
412 Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Denis Diderot 1796 French French
3534 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
17113 Fire In The Mind George Johnson 1995 American English
17113 The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
12308 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
771 God's Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembène 1960 Senegalese French
15010 The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka 1989 American English
17113 Paradigms Regained John L. Casti 2000 American English
535 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 French French
2696 Pet Sematary Stephen King 1983 American English
17113 Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore 1992 American English
15794 Mr. Skeffington Elizabeth 1940 British English
2985 Tipping The Velvet Sarah Waters 1998 British English
3113 Affinity Sarah Waters 1999 British English
17113 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17113 Sacré Bleu Christopher Moore 2012 American English
1186 The Inimitable Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1923 British English
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
1031 Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes 1641 French Latin
15830 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
17113 Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007 American English
15795 Paul And Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1788 French French
5642 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
10422 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
1320 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich 1984 American English
17113 You Suck Christopher Moore 2007 American English
1492 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov 1941 Russian English
1779 Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 1970 Chilean Spanish
17113 Ember Lane Sheila Kaye-Smith British English
1392 A Separate Peace John Knowles 1959 American English
13577 The Path to Power Robert Caro 1982 American English
15796 The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
17113 The Secret Of Our Success Joseph Henrich 2015 American English
1127 Women of Trachis Sophocles -450 Greek Ancient greek
17113 Anima Rising Christopher Moore 2025 American English
15010 Power Of Now Eckhart Tolle 1997 Canadian English
1937 Ask The Dust John Fante 1939 American English
830 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1776 British English
1711 The Peasants Władysław Reymont 1904 Polish Polish
4594 Man in the Holocene Max Frisch 1979 Swiss German
874 Call to Arms Lu Xun 1922 Chinese Chinese
11007 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth 1979 American English
17113 Master At Arms Rafael Sabatini British English
17113 Political Order And Inequality Carles Boix 2015 Spanish English
14794 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1893 British English
12148 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
1750 The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 1986 American English
1928 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed 1919 American English
7163 A Million Little Pieces James Frey 2003 American English
4685 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 2011 Serbian English
375 Ethics Baruch de Spinoza 1677 Dutch Latin
13577 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 2013 Pakistani English
9107 Operating Instructions Anne Lamott 1993 American English
520 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1814 British English
17113 The Great Divergence Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 American English
913 The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein 1925 American English
15798 The English Air D.E. Stevenson 1940 Scottish English
2810 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson 1980 American English
12062 Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1982 Japanese Japanese
3496 Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer 2009 American English
17113 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17113 On Becoming A Novelist John Gardner 1983 American English
15799 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
8222 The Heart In Winter Kevin Barry 2024 Irish English
611 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
15800 A Sea Island Lady Francis Griswold 1939 American Unknown
11546 Poems of Matsuo Bashō Matsuo Bashō 1601 Japanese Japanese
414 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 1971 British English
3575 Horcynus Orca Stefano D'Arrigo 1975 Italian Italian
17113 Humanity's End Nicholas Agar 2010 New Zealand English
2123 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 British English
397 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke 1910 German German
5847 The Rope Plautus -204 Roman Latin
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1555 The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro 1995 British English
630 Titus Groan Mervyn Peake 1946 British English
1660 Essays and Aphorisms Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
12029 On Moral Fiction John Gardner 1978 American English
15010 Double Whammy Carl Hiaasen 1987 American English
270 Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
1145 A Month In The Country J. L. Carr 1980 British English
1574 The Story Of My Experiments With Truth Mahatma Gandhi 1927 Indian Gujarati
6449 The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen 2001 Norwegian Norwegian
17113 Writing Fiction Janet Burroway 1982 American English
15803 To The Indies C.S. Forester 1940 British English
15802 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
2341 Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware 2000 American English
17113 Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen 2004 American English
15801 The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen 1837 Danish Danish