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
15742 Shobogenzo Dōgen 1231 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Game Neil Strauss 2005 American English
14901 Millennium Felipe Fernández-Armesto 1995 British English
3487 Seminario Sulla Gioventù Aldo Busi 1984 Italian Italian
6596 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
1546 Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958 British English
7782 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
15744 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
4700 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
17010 The Silent Girl Tess Gerritsen 2011 American English
7883 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
5400 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
2259 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
9714 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
17010 For Us The Living Bruce Lancaster 1983 Unknown English
15746 Welcome To The Monkey Kurt Vonnegut 1968 Unknown English
8942 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
17010 Natural Beauty Ling Ling Huang 2023 Unknown English
17010 Las Malas Camila Sosa Villada 2019 Argentinian Spanish
17010 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17010 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
1553 Troilus And Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1385 British Middle english
3069 Once Were Warriors Alan Duff 1990 New Zealand English
14694 Return Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1905 British English
17010 The Five Invitations Frank Ostaseski 2017 American English
17010 Iron Gold Pierce Brown 2018 American English
12443 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
5620 Mindfulness In Plain English Henepola Gunaratana 1994 American English
14165 Annie Bot Sierra Greer 2024 Unknown English
6656 The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey 1963 American English
2453 The Prisoner Of Zenda Anthony Hope 1894 British English
14901 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
17010 Dingley Falls Michael Malone American English
2824 A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978 American English
14901 Assistant To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
638 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
15747 The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats 1933 Irish English
17010 An Unfinished History Of The World Hugh Thomas 1979 British English
13285 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace 1999 American English
563 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 American English
1855 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1911 British English
17010 Deeper Than The Dead Tami Hoag 2009 American English
15748 Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
675 Lud-in-the-Mist Hope Mirrlees 1926 British English
3313 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
15749 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
3142 Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons 1989 American English
14901 Me Elton John 2019 British English
15750 The Death Of The Past J. H. Plumb 1969 British English
14901 The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk 2024 Polish English
17010 Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura 2019 Japanese Japanese
7139 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
2894 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
17010 The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space Joseph Campbell 1986 American English
17010 The Go Giver Bob Burg 2007 American English
2440 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
558 Sula Toni Morrison 1973 American English
7131 Black Hole Charles Burns 1995 American English
2364 The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono 1953 French French
3882 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 American English
4528 Mend The Living Maylis de Kerangal 2014 French French
15751 Fame Is The Spur Howard Spring 1940 Welsh English
2712 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
17010 The Sandman, Vol. 4 Neil Gaiman 1992 British English
11515 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
17010 Secrets To The Grave Tami Hoag 2010 American English
17010 A Thousand Pardons Jonathan Dee 2013 American English
6844 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
17010 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt 2022 Unknown English
6664 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
17010 Anna In W Grobowcach świata Olga Tokarczuk 2006 Polish Polish
2284 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 1988 American English
17010 Down The Darkest Road Tami Hoag 2011 American English
2541 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe 1842 American English
4996 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
14901 Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut 1985 American English
3199 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
17010 American Holocaust Malcolm Hillgartner, David E. Stannard 1992 American English
3461 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 1845 American English
1184 Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg 1210 German Middle high german
15754 No Beast So Fierce Edward Bunker 1973 American English
929 The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga 1881 Italian Italian
17010 Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami 2001 Japanese Japanese
15755 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
3166 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
1023 Murphy Samuel Beckett 1938 Irish English
15756 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
5926 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
17010 Gilt Jamie Brenner 2022 American English
15757 A Sibila Agustina Bessa-Luís 1954 Portuguese Portuguese
11475 State Of Wonder Ann Patchett 2011 American English
1075 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
2093 The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 1988 American English
17010 Early Disorder Rebecca Josephs 1980 Unknown Unknown
532 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
14901 Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye Kazuaki Tanahashi 2010 Japanese Japanese
3164 Hitchcock Francois Truffaut 1966 French French
17010 Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 2021 American English
3846 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
5952 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
1326 Parable Of The Sower Octavia E. Butler 1993 American English
17010 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
17010 The Boy Tami Hoag 2018 American English
17010 The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 2016 American English
15758 Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers Pierre Guyotat 1967 French French
2319 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 1994 British English
14696 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14901 Understanding Comics Scott McCloud 1993 American English
3823 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
5615 Wave Sonali Deraniyagala 2013 Sri Lankan English
15759 The Richest Man In Babylon GEORGE S. CLASON 1926 American English
2850 The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
386 La Regenta Clarín 1884 Spanish Spanish
273 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
9574 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
1139 Nana Émile Zola 1880 French French
8306 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
2542 Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872 Argentinian Spanish
17010 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Book Of Doors Gareth Brown Unknown Unknown