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
15731 Hard Rain Falling Don Carpenter 1966 American English
14901 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
8175 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
14901 Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton 1993 American English
17010 Never Tell Lisa Gardner 2019 American English
17010 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
1286 The Invention Of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares 1940 Argentinian Spanish
3044 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1938 American English
15733 Mr. Littlejohn Martin Flavin 1944 American English
17010 The Labyrinth Of The Spirits Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2016 Spanish Spanish
17010 Good Riddance Elinor Lipman 2019 American English
17010 A Fate Inked In Blood Danielle L. Jensen 2023 Unknown English
17010 Stillness Speaks Eckhart Tolle 2003 German English
10146 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
5976 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski 1982 American English
7774 Sandstorms Peter Theroux 1990 American English
17010 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
256 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Scottish English
8423 Faithful Place Tana French 2010 Irish English
14901 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
15736 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian
15737 Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller 1939 American English
17010 Light Bringer Pierce Brown 2023 American English
1745 Twenty Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
3415 In The Country Of Last Things Paul Auster 1987 American English
14093 My Side Of The Mountain Jean Craighead George 1959 American English
1357 The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki 1948 Japanese Japanese
3401 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
17010 The Talisman And Black House Stephen King American English
17010 Tales From Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 American English
17010 Five Star Stranger Kat Tang Unknown Unknown
1300 The Guide R. K. Narayan 1958 Indian English
14901 Ringmaster Abraham Riesman 2023 American English
17010 Brainfire Campbell Black 1979 Unknown English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
15738 Japanese Tales Of Mystery & Imagination Edogawa Ranpo 1956 Japanese Japanese
5589 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
17010 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17010 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
7617 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
1236 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
13744 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American English
4924 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
1464 Narcissus And Goldmund Hermann Hesse 1930 German German
17010 The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed Mariana Enríquez 2009 Argentinian Spanish
6723 Travels With Myself And Another Martha Gellhorn 1978 American English
448 The Magus John Fowles 1965 British English
7188 The Surgeon Tess Gerritsen 2001 American English
5846 The New Life Dante Alighieri 1295 Italian Italian
2173 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul 1971 Trinidadian English
14901 Bewilderment Richard Powers 2021 British English
17010 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17010 Summerwater Sarah Moss 2020 British English
14775 Warlock Oakley Hall 1958 American English
4254 Petals of blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan English
2840 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
14777 The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
17010 The Wise Heart Jack Kornfield 2008 American English
11984 The Echo Maker Richard Powers 2006 American English
670 Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1965 Cuban Spanish
3102 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche 1886 German German
2986 A Book Of Memories Péter Nádas 1986 Hungarian Hungarian
17010 L'écroulement De La Baliverna Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
14778 Instant Replay Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap 1968 American English
15740 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
14341 Humanity Jonathan Glover 1999 British English
2847 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935 Indian English
1499 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
3445 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
17010 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
6918 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
11514 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
742 On Liberty John Stuart Mill 1859 British English
5847 Selections Francesco Petrarca 1340 Italian Italian
990 Macunaíma Mario de Andrade 1928 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Günahkar Tess Gerritsen 2003 American English
17010 Marvels Kurt Busiek 1994 American English
17010 It's A Date Jeneva Rose Unknown Unknown
16441 The Chain Of Chance Stanislaw Lem 1976 Polish Polish
8193 Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy 1968 American English
17010 Before The Storm Rick Perlstein 2001 American English
17010 Waiting For The Galactic Bus Parke Godwin 1988 American English
1456 Flights Olga Tokarczuk 2007 Polish Polish
579 The Outsider And Others H. P. Lovecraft 1939 American English
2449 The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 British English
6885 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
10483 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
1687 Orientalism Edward W. Said 1978 Palestinian English
2231 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
9679 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
17010 Distant Replay Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap 1985 American English
17010 T. Singer Dag Solstad 1999 Norwegian Norwegian
6234 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
17010 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
8721 The End Of Eddy Édouard Louis 2014 French French
3492 The Return Of Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon Davis 1983 Unknown English
17010 Sword Of Destiny Andrzej Sapkowski 1992 Polish Polish
969 The Maias Eça de Queirós 1888 Portuguese Portuguese
552 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
1864 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
2714 Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Unknown 1400 British Middle english
2009 A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
17010 Conspiracy Of Silence Mel and Karen Silverstein American Unknown
17010 Beauty Sheri S. Tepper 1991 American English
4403 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
589 Bel Ami Guy de Maupassant 1885 French French
15741 The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai 1947 Japanese Japanese
17010 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17010 Ideas Peter Watson 2005 British English
618 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English
2729 Seize The Day Saul Bellow 1956 American English
17010 Siliniş Tess Gerritsen 2005 American English
1129 Too Loud A Solitude Bohumil Hrabal 1976 Czech Czech
1280 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes 1962 Mexican Spanish
7883 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
8942 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
15742 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
5400 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English