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
1351 The Suppliants Aeschylus -463 Greek Ancient greek
17120 Writing Fiction Janet Burroway 1982 American English
15805 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
17120 Abigail And Alexa Save The Wedding Lian Dolan Unknown Unknown
6621 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2003 Nigerian English
17120 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
6449 The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen 2001 Norwegian Norwegian
15806 The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen 1837 Danish Danish
1144 A Month In The Country J. L. Carr 1980 British English
15807 30,000 On The Hoof Zane Grey 1940 American English
1573 The Story Of My Experiments With Truth Mahatma Gandhi 1927 Indian Gujarati
10200 From Hell Alan Moore 1991 British English
17120 The House Of Lee Gertrude Atherton 2005 American English
17120 Twisted Family Values V.C. Chickering 2018 Unknown English
2006 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Unknown 900 Japanese Japanese
17120 Harry Potter Boxset J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
3145 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975 American English
9516 After You’d Gone Maggie O'Farrell 2000 British English
2604 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer 1974 South African English
17120 Saga, Compendium One Brian K. Vaughan 2019 American English
13576 Anxious People Fredrik Backman 2019 Swedish Swedish
14984 Skin Tight Carl Hiaasen 1989 American English
1210 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 1984 British English
5005 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
16593 Casa De Campo José Donoso 1978 Chilean Spanish
2171 Italian Folktales Italo Calvino 1956 Italian Italian
3435 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry 1961 American English
17120 Common Sense, Science, And Scepticism Alan Musgrave 1993 New Zealand English
15809 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15810 The Family Nina Fedorova 1940 Unknown English
17120 A Self Made Man Sidney Blumenthal 2016 American English
753 Henderson The Rain King Saul Bellow 1959 American English
17120 The Dreams Of Reason Heinz R. Pagels 1988 American English
12030 American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld 2008 American English
4162 No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021 American English
305 The Confusions of Young Törless Robert Musil 1906 Austrian German
17120 The Perfect Husband Lisa Gardner 1997 American English
682 The Open Society and Its Enemies Karl Popper 1945 British English
924 Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver 1988 American English
14984 Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis 2004 American English
7005 The Girl With The Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier 1999 British English
14770 The Symposium Xenophon 361 Greek Ancient greek
17120 The Penguin Complete Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe American English
15811 The Wisdom Of Insecurity Alan Watts 1951 American English
8172 Life Keith Richards 2010 British English
17120 Golden Son Pierce Brown 2015 American English
1373 Winter's Tale Mark Helprin 1983 American English
13226 Gardens Of The Moon Steven Erikson 1999 Canadian English
1127 The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet 1923 French French
1505 The Famished Road Ben Okri 1991 Nigerian English
17120 Little Stalker Jennifer Belle 2007 American English
15812 Half Magic Edward Eager 1954 American English
14984 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
14824 The House Of Others Silvio d'Arzo 1953 Italian Italian
17120 Love, Mom Iliana Xander Unknown Unknown
2452 Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh 1932 British English
1541 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 American English
17120 The Other Daughter Lisa Gardner 1999 American English
17120 Other People's Houses Abbi Waxman 2018 American English
731 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 1794 British English
13941 The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker 2013 American English
15813 No Other Man Alfred Noyes 1940 English English
4078 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
17120 The Expats Chris Pavone 2012 American English
15814 The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
10960 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
901 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
1663 The Making of the English Working Class E. P. Thompson 1963 British English
17120 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
17120 The Science Of The Mind Owen J. Flanagan 1984 American English
1464 Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1855 British English
17120 November Road Lou Berney 2018 American English
15815 The Stone Of Chastity Margery Sharp 1940 British English
15816 Rabbit Angstrom John Updike 1960 American English
11534 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
1635 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez 1975 Colombian Spanish
14232 People Of The Book Geraldine Brooks 2008 Australian English
3907 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 Norwegian Norwegian
5929 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
4589 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 2019 American English
536 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1929 American English
17120 Defenders Of The Truth Ullica Segerstrale 1986 American English
17120 The Third Victim Lisa Gardner 2001 American English
17120 A Likely Story Leigh McMullan Abramson 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Broom Of The System David Foster Wallace 1987 American English
11159 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
17120 The Killing Hour Lisa Gardner 2003 American English
17120 Fablehaven Brandon Mull 2006 American English
17120 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
4230 The Wasps Aristophanes -422 Greek Ancient greek
8392 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
17120 The Wizard And The Prophet Charles C. Mann 2018 American English
14984 Poor Things Alasdair Gray 1992 Scottish English
17120 One Fifth Avenue Candace Bushnell 2008 American English
4131 The Three-Arched Bridge Ismail Kadare 1978 Albanian Albanian
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
17120 Moral Sense James Q. Wilson 1993 American English
1415 Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1883 American English
1651 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 American English
17120 Into The Forest Jean Hegland 1996 American English
17120 Alone Lisa Gardner 2005 American English
17120 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
1607 Pan Knut Hamsun 1894 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 The Driftless Area Tom Drury 2006 American English
458 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
4298 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg 1987 American English
973 The Burning Plain and Other Stories Juan Rulfo 1953 Mexican Spanish
14772 The Works of Archimedes Archimedes -287 Greek Ancient greek
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6309 Burial Rites Hannah Kent 2013 Australian English
17120 Last House Jessica Shattuck 2003 Unknown English
1319 The Story Of An African Farm Olive Schreiner 1883 South African English
17120 Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 2017 British English
17120 Sacred And Secular Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris 2004 American English
563 Panchatantra Unknown -300 Multiple Sanskrit
6310 Getting Things Done David Allen 2001 American English
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
17120 Streets Of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993 American English
15817 A World I Never Made James T. Farrell 1936 American English