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
17152 The Sandman, Vol. 10 Neil Gaiman 1997 British English
2240 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
6666 The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey 1963 American English
1500 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
11540 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
618 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English
2014 A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
677 Lud-in-the-Mist Hope Mirrlees 1926 British English
17152 Sword Of Destiny Andrzej Sapkowski 1992 Polish Polish
4408 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
17152 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
8737 The End Of Eddy Édouard Louis 2014 French French
17152 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
589 Bel Ami Guy de Maupassant 1885 French French
17152 Siliniş Tess Gerritsen 2005 American English
2733 Seize The Day Saul Bellow 1956 American English
556 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
2718 Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Unknown 1400 British Middle english
970 The Maias Eça de Queirós 1888 Portuguese Portuguese
1130 Too Loud A Solitude Bohumil Hrabal 1976 Czech Czech
17152 Ideas Peter Watson 2005 British English
3495 The Return Of Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon Davis 1983 Unknown English
15861 The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai 1947 Japanese Japanese
1865 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
15862 The Earth Is The Lord's Taylor Caldwell 1940 American English
17152 The Silent Girl Tess Gerritsen 2011 American English
6608 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
1548 Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958 British English
15863 Welcome To The Monkey Kurt Vonnegut 1968 Unknown English
5628 Mindfulness In Plain English Henepola Gunaratana 1994 American English
17152 The Game Neil Strauss 2005 American English
14985 Millennium Felipe Fernández-Armesto 1995 British English
9731 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
2268 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
1280 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes 1962 Mexican Spanish
17152 Las Malas Camila Sosa Villada 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5410 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
17152 The Five Invitations Frank Ostaseski 2017 American English
17152 Natural Beauty Ling Ling Huang 2023 Unknown English
15865 Shobogenzo Dōgen 1231 Japanese Japanese
17152 Jesus Tales Romulus Linney 1983 American English
15866 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
7899 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
7799 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
4708 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
3489 Seminario Sulla Gioventù Aldo Busi 1984 Italian Italian
15867 The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats 1933 Irish English
17152 Deeper Than The Dead Tami Hoag 2009 American English
2830 A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978 American English
564 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 American English
1555 Troilus And Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1385 British Middle english
1856 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1911 British English
14232 Annie Bot Sierra Greer 2024 Unknown English
17152 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
12474 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
3077 Once Were Warriors Alan Duff 1990 New Zealand English
17152 No Stone Unturned Josephine Lawrence American English
13319 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace 1999 American English
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
14985 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
17152 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17152 An Unfinished History Of The World Hugh Thomas 1979 British English
17152 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
15868 Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
14782 Return Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1905 British English
17152 Iron Gold Pierce Brown 2018 American English
1097 My Name Is Aram William Saroyan 1940 American English
560 Sula Toni Morrison 1973 American English
3147 Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons 1989 American English
6675 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
17152 Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura 2019 Japanese Japanese
7143 Black Hole Charles Burns 1995 American English
17152 The Go Giver Bob Burg 2007 American English
4533 Mend The Living Maylis de Kerangal 2014 French French
2715 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
17152 The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space Joseph Campbell 1986 American English
17152 The Sandman, Vol. 4 Neil Gaiman 1992 British English
11541 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
14985 The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk 2024 Polish English
2372 The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono 1953 French French
2445 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
15870 Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
17152 A Thousand Pardons Jonathan Dee 2013 American English
7152 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
15871 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
17152 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt 2022 Unknown English
14985 Me Elton John 2019 British English
17152 Secrets To The Grave Tami Hoag 2010 American English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
17152 Limbo Joel Hammil 1980 Unknown English
6307 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
3887 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 American English
15872 The Death Of The Past J. H. Plumb 1969 British English
15873 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
5937 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
14985 Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye Kazuaki Tanahashi 2010 Japanese Japanese
15874 No Beast So Fierce Edward Bunker 1973 American English
17152 Anna In W Grobowcach świata Olga Tokarczuk 2006 Polish Polish
532 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
5007 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
2098 The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 1988 American English
3170 Hitchcock Francois Truffaut 1966 French French
2545 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe 1842 American English
14985 Q Craig Brown 2024 Unknown English
1186 Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg 1210 German Middle high german
931 The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga 1881 Italian Italian
15875 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
11502 State Of Wonder Ann Patchett 2011 American English
1026 Murphy Samuel Beckett 1938 Irish English
17152 American Holocaust Malcolm Hillgartner, David E. Stannard 1992 American English
386 La Regenta Clarín 1884 Spanish Spanish
1140 Nana Émile Zola 1880 French French
2291 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 1988 American English
3463 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 1845 American English
15876 A Sibila Agustina Bessa-Luís 1954 Portuguese Portuguese
14985 Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut 1985 American English
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
17152 Gilt Jamie Brenner 2022 American English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English