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
500 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor 1965 American English
10451 The Topeka School Ben Lerner 2019 American English
4480 Revenge Of The Lawn Richard Brautigan 1971 American English
4501 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 2010 Canadian English
15849 Swanns Värld Marcel Proust 1913 French French
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
15850 The Journey To The East N109 Hermann Hesse 1932 German German
8143 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
17153 Flowers For The God Of Love Barbara Cartland British English
1207 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1936 American English
5605 Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003 American English
390 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 British English
1569 Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard 1984 British English
9703 The Book Of Peace Christine De Pizan 1413 French French
5967 Pornografia Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
17153 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17153 Carnegie Hill Jonathan Vatner 2019 American English
2928 The Return Hisham Matar 2016 Libyan English
17153 Stillness Speaks Eckhart Tolle 2003 German English
3053 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1938 American English
17153 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
4520 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki 1970 Japanese English
10893 The Odd Woman And The City Vivian Gornick 2015 American English
14985 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
2364 The Sorrow Of War Bao Ninh 1990 Vietnamese Vietnamese
8191 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
4886 The Crimson Petal And The White Michel Faber 2002 British English
3206 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
496 Froth on the daydream Boris Vian 1947 French French
258 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Scottish English
15853 Sapphira And The Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940 American English
15852 Hard Rain Falling Don Carpenter 1966 American English
14190 Alas, Babylon Pat Frank 1959 American English
17153 Look For Me Lisa Gardner 2018 American English
17153 Never Tell Lisa Gardner 2019 American English
15854 Tropic Of Capricorn Henry Miller 1939 American English
10164 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
8864 Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman 2020 American English
1286 The Invention Of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares 1940 Argentinian Spanish
14985 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
15855 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian
8442 Faithful Place Tana French 2010 Irish English
17153 Waiting For The Galactic Bus Parke Godwin 1988 American English
17153 The Labyrinth Of The Spirits Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2016 Spanish Spanish
5987 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski 1982 American English
7791 Sandstorms Peter Theroux 1990 American English
17153 Light Bringer Pierce Brown 2023 American English
17153 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
17153 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17153 Good Riddance Elinor Lipman 2019 American English
17153 Batman, The Killing Joke Alan Moore 1988 Unknown English
1747 Twenty Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
1300 The Guide R. K. Narayan 1958 Indian English
5598 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
3421 In The Country Of Last Things Paul Auster 1987 American English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
17153 Gospel Fever Frank G. Slaughter 1980 American English
17153 Tales From Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 American English
3407 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
14985 Ringmaster Abraham Riesman 2023 American English
17153 Beauty Sheri S. Tepper 1991 American English
17153 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
15859 Japanese Tales Of Mystery & Imagination Edogawa Ranpo 1956 Japanese Japanese
14158 My Side Of The Mountain Jean Craighead George 1959 American English
17153 Five Star Stranger Kat Tang Unknown Unknown
6896 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
5681 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
17153 The Talisman And Black House Stephen King American English
1360 The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki 1948 Japanese Japanese
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
17153 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
2902 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
17153 The Wise Heart Jack Kornfield 2008 American English
14985 Bewilderment Richard Powers 2021 British English
12009 The Echo Maker Richard Powers 2006 American English
1239 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
743 On Liberty John Stuart Mill 1859 British English
9697 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
14861 Warlock Oakley Hall 1958 American English
4260 Petals of blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan English
672 Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1965 Cuban Spanish
7633 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
14862 Instant Replay Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap 1968 American English
4933 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
14409 Humanity Jonathan Glover 1999 British English
2994 A Book Of Memories Péter Nádas 1986 Hungarian Hungarian
17153 L'écroulement De La Baliverna Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
5857 The New Life Dante Alighieri 1295 Italian Italian
2454 The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 British English
17153 The Hard Rain Dinitia Smith 1980 American English
5238 Travels With Myself And Another Martha Gellhorn 1978 American English
442 The Magus John Fowles 1965 British English
15860 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
3110 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche 1886 German German
2184 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul 1971 Trinidadian English
14863 The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
7204 The Surgeon Tess Gerritsen 2001 American English
8957 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
17153 Summerwater Sarah Moss 2020 British English
17153 The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed Mariana Enríquez 2009 Argentinian Spanish
2847 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
17153 The Sandman, Vol. 10 Neil Gaiman 1997 British English
6666 The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey 1963 American English
17153 The Hoyden Bride Margaret Rau 1980 Unknown English
17153 T. Singer Dag Solstad 1999 Norwegian Norwegian
1328 Parable Of The Sower Octavia E. Butler 1993 American English
2855 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935 Indian English
17153 Before The Storm Rick Perlstein 2001 American English
1456 Flights Olga Tokarczuk 2007 Polish Polish
17153 Günahkar Tess Gerritsen 2003 American English
991 Macunaíma Mario de Andrade 1928 Brazilian Portuguese
11540 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
8209 Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy 1968 American English
1500 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
17153 It's A Date Jeneva Rose Unknown Unknown
2240 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
17153 The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 2018 American English
17153 Distant Replay Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap 1985 American English
6929 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
5858 Selections Francesco Petrarca 1340 Italian Italian