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
15822 Moon Tide Willard Robertson 1942 American English
6311 Getting Things Done David Allen 2001 American English
6310 Burial Rites Hannah Kent 2013 Australian English
1319 The Story Of An African Farm Olive Schreiner 1883 South African English
16643 The Black Castle Les Daniels 1978 American English
14232 Ordinary Men Christopher R. Browning 1992 American English
17125 Gone Lisa Gardner 2006 American English
15823 The Mystery Of Being 1 Gabriel Marcel 1949 French French
1427 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1930 British English
538 Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau 1959 French French
1193 Double Indemnity James M. Cain 1943 American English
6241 The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981 American English
17125 The Weird And The Eerie Mark Fisher 2016 British English
1528 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius 524 Roman Latin
17125 War Before Civilization Lawrence H. Keeley 1996 American English
485 Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss 1955 French French
8715 Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux 2002 American English
3300 The Works Of Philodemus Philodemus -50 Greek Greek
1882 Pereira Maintains Antonio Tabucchi 1994 Italian Italian
17125 Broken Fortune Aly Mennuti Unknown Unknown
17125 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
12313 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
949 Nada Carmen Laforet 1944 Spanish Spanish
14232 Fool For Love Sam Shepard 1983 American English
951 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
11535 Thyestes Seneca 62 Roman Latin
14984 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
1321 A Question of Power Bessie Head 1973 Botswanan English
841 Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 British English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
15824 A History Of Political Theory George Holland Sabine 1937 American English
14951 Crimes Of The Heart Beth Henley 1978 American English
14984 Number The Stars Lois Lowry 1989 American English
17125 Hide Lisa Gardner 2007 American English
2607 Heavy Kiese Laymon 2018 American English
14984 Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel 1999 American English
9523 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
15825 Mr. Littlejohn Martin Flavin 1944 American English
17125 Madame Antoni Libera 1998 Polish Polish
17125 Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption Stephen King 1982 American English
4748 The Glamour Christopher Priest 1984 British English
15827 Walden & Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
5330 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 1999 American English
5420 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
11536 Timaeus Plato -360 Greek Ancient greek
3316 City Of Night John Rechy 1963 American English
17125 The Heirs Susan Rieger 2017 American English
1152 The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever 1957 American English
3182 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1966 British English
17125 The Neighbor Lisa Gardner 2009 American English
14984 Touching the Void Joe Simpson 1988 British English
4651 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
16846 Brainfire Campbell Black 1979 Unknown English
17125 The Glass Universe Dava Sobel 2016 American English
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
993 Essays of E. B. White E. B. White 1977 American English
17125 Needful Things Stephen King 1991 American English
17125 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
17125 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17125 Live To Tell Lisa Gardner 2010 American English
8647 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
338 Effi Briest Theodor Fontane 1895 German German
17125 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17125 Berserk, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura 1990 Japanese Japanese
5852 Chatterton Alfred de Vigny 1835 French French
7099 The Dutch House Ann Patchett 2019 American English
15828 Laughter In The Dark Vladimir Nabokov 1932 Russian Russian
14175 Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume 1972 American English
8097 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
17125 The Day The World Came To Town Jim DeFede 2002 American English
17125 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
674 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 British English
825 In Our Time Ernest Hemingway 1925 American English
17125 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17125 The Shards Bret Easton Ellis 2023 American English
17125 The Wedding Dress Danielle Steel 2020 American English
10824 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American English
17125 The Shock Of The Old David Edgerton 2006 British English
15832 The Issa Valley Czesław Miłosz 1955 Polish Polish
11537 Benito Cereno Herman Melville 1855 American English
17125 American Dirt Jeanine Cummins 2020 American English
15833 The Little House Collection Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
17125 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse Charlie Mackesy 2019 British English
7756 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
17125 Psychology Of Money Morgan Housel 2020 American English
17125 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
1376 Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener 1947 American English
17125 Love You More Lisa Gardner 2011 American English
17125 Saint Thomas Aquinas And Saint Francis Of Assisi G.K. Chesterton English English
14984 A Child Called 'It' Dave Pelzer 1995 American English
17125 Morning Star Pierce Brown 2016 American English
6838 Frontier Can Xue 2008 Chinese Chinese
16498 The Chain Of Chance Stanislaw Lem 1976 Polish Polish
2432 The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 American English
5641 The Kites Romain Gary 1980 French French
17125 Cobble Hill Cecily von Ziegesar 2020 American English
17125 The 7th Month Lisa Gardner 2012 American English
1703 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 American English
17125 The Power Of Myth Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers 1988 American English
17125 Conspiracy Of Silence Mel and Karen Silverstein American Unknown
9073 Autumn Ali Smith 2016 British English
17125 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17125 The Fall Of Rome Bryan Ward-Perkins 2005 British English
14232 The Separation Christopher Priest 2002 British English
8267 That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon Kimberly Lemming 2022 American English
256 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 American English
17125 The Tie That Binds Kent Haruf 1984 American English
759 Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola 1867 French French
14232 The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman 2010 British English
4893 Influence Robert B. Cialdini 1984 American English
14984 12 Rules For Life Jordan B. Peterson 2018 Canadian English
3478 The Use Of Man Aleksandar Tišma 1976 Serbian Serbo-croatian
1805 A Hero Born Jin Yong 1957 Chinese Chinese
17125 Catch Me Lisa Gardner 2012 American English
5250 The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward 1955 American English
6376 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
7997 Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz 2016 British English
17125 Persian Fire Tom Holland 2005 British English
5804 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 2024 American English