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
17122 Conspiracy Of Silence Mel and Karen Silverstein American Unknown
6375 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
17122 Persian Fire Tom Holland 2005 British English
14848 The Complete Adventures Of Curious George H. A. Rey 1969 American English
17122 Dark Age Pierce Brown 2019 American English
844 Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 1930 Austrian German
5250 The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward 1955 American English
2424 Platform Michel Houellebecq 2001 French French
7094 The Color Of Law Richard Rothstein 2017 American English
14232 Means Of Ascent Robert Caro 1990 American English
3819 Weaveworld Clive Barker 1987 British English
8067 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
4170 Trout Fishing In America Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
15838 Horton Hatches The Egg Dr. Seuss 1940 American English
17122 Ultrasociety Peter Turchin 2016 American English
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
6484 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
3059 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
4173 Replay Ken Grimwood 1986 American English
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
3100 Ball Four Jim Bouton 1970 American English
17122 Fear Nothing Lisa Gardner 2014 American English
17122 The Dawn Of Love Barbara Cartland 1980 British English
15834 The Time Quartet Box Set Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
17122 Truth In Advertising John Kenney 2013 American English
10450 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
1479 The Wall Marlen Haushofer 1963 Austrian German
17122 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17122 Our Band Could Be Your Life Michael Azerrad 2001 American English
17122 Never Let Go Dan John 2009 Unknown English
14775 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
3282 Blankets Craig Thompson 2003 American English
15837 A Happy Death Albert Camus 1971 French French
17122 For Us The Living Bruce Lancaster 1983 Unknown English
14774 Ecclesiastical History Of The English People Bede 731 British Latin
17122 The Imperfects Amy Meyerson 2020 American English
1705 The Sea-Wolf Jack London 1904 American English
17122 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
4793 Yvain Chrétien de Troyes 1177 French Old french
727 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz 1934 Polish Polish
1366 The Adversary Emmanuel Carrère 2000 French French
631 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 1927 American English
3817 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
3118 The Nine Guardians Rosario Castellanos 1957 Mexican Spanish
14776 Fox In Socks Dr. Seuss 1965 American English
17122 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
9716 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
625 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers 1934 British English
1515 The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
1420 The October Country Ray Bradbury 1955 American English
17122 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17122 Girls In White Dresses Jennifer Close 2011 American English
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
1947 Shame Salman Rushdie 1983 British English
854 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
14232 Bride Ali Hazelwood 2024 Unknown English
980 News from Nowhere William Morris 1890 British English
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind Hayao Miyazaki 1982 Japanese Japanese
17122 Realism And Truth Michael Devitt 1991 American English
17122 The Cause Joseph Ellis 2021 American English
10224 The Trees Percival Everett 2021 American English
17122 3 Truths And A Lie Lisa Gardner 2016 American English
2935 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
984 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
14984 Cash Johnny Cash 1997 American English
8565 Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 American English
459 The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 1896 British English
1307 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor 1976 American English
14984 Jawbone Mónica Ojeda 2018 Ecuadorian Spanish
17122 Dingley Falls Michael Malone American English
2457 The Prisoner Of Zenda Anthony Hope 1894 British English
11870 Within A Budding Grove Marcel Proust 1919 French French
14984 The Husbands Holly Gramazio 2024 Unknown English
2745 Erec And Enide Chrétien de Troyes 1160 French Old french
1599 The Unfortunate Traveller Thomas Nashe 1594 British English
17122 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
2601 Darkness Visible William Styron 1990 American English
17122 Find Her Lisa Gardner 2016 American English
2798 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 American English
14984 The Library At Mount Char Scott Hawkins 2015 American English
17122 The Hopefuls Jennifer Close 2016 American English
2052 The Misanthrope Molière 1666 French French
15840 Fame Is The Spur Howard Spring 1940 Welsh English
1981 West With the Night Beryl Markham 1942 British English
3081 Flappers And Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
1818 Barbarian Days William Finnegan 2015 American English
3078 Paradise of the Blind Dương Thu Hương 1988 Vietnamese Vietnamese
4478 Perceval, Or The Story Of The Grail Chrétien de Troyes 1181 French Old french
13941 The Noonday Demon Andrew Solomon 2001 American English
7130 Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan 2002 Indonesian Indonesian
15841 A Confederate General From Big Sur Richard Brautigan 1900 American English
996 Journey by Moonlight Antal Szerb 1937 Hungarian Hungarian
17122 The Island Elin Hilderbrand 2010 American English
14984 South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami 1992 Japanese Japanese
3627 Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata 2016 Japanese Japanese
17122 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
17122 The 4th Man Lisa Gardner 2017 American English
1811 A Time Of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor 1977 British English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
17122 Early Disorder Rebecca Josephs 1980 Unknown Unknown
1103 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848 British English
17122 Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2001 American English
17122 Philosopher On Dover Beach Roger Scruton 1990 British English
390 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 British English
544 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Unknown 1554 Spanish Spanish
14778 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
17122 From Dawn To Decadence Jacques Barzun 2000 American English
2678 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
1569 Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard 1984 British English
17122 Right Behind You Lisa Gardner 2017 American English
8141 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
4479 Revenge Of The Lawn Richard Brautigan 1971 American English
10450 The Topeka School Ben Lerner 2019 American English
15843 The Journey To The East N109 Hermann Hesse 1932 German German
4500 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 2010 Canadian English
15844 Swanns Värld Marcel Proust 1913 French French
4753 Angels And Demons Dan Brown 2000 American English
5604 Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003 American English
2261 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 American English