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
420 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 American English
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
522 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 American English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
397 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
174 Rabbit, Run John Updike 1960 American English
148 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1962 Russian Russian
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
13941 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand 2010 American English
271 The Awakening Kate Chopin 1899 American English
356 Germinal Émile Zola 1885 French French
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
2606 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
1643 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt 1996 American English
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
400 The Shining Stephen King 1977 American English
2089 Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 1939 Austrian English
336 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 1900 American English
181 Light in August William Faulkner 1932 American English
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
85 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 British English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
123 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
15850 The Fellowship Of The Ring J. R. R. Tolkien 1981 British English
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
223 A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961 Trinidadian English
598 Night Elie Wiesel 1958 French French
13790 Make Way For Ducklings Robert McCloskey 1941 American English
142 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 American English
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
388 The Complete Works of Plato Plato -387 Greek Ancient greek
1597 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 1992 American English
265 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948 South African English
151 Molloy Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
2230 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
158 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966 British English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
425 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 British English
14232 A Walk In The Woods Bill Bryson 1998 American English
239 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 1934 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
339 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837 British English
2059 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
209 Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 Norwegian Norwegian
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
195 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 American English
337 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1597 British English
214 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
15726 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
624 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus -450 Greek Ancient greek
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
599 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams 1947 American English
1354 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 American English
8975 A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2003 American English
569 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 1938 British, Irish English
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
282 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 German German
1626 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 1983 British English
171 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 German German
263 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati 1940 Italian Italian
1661 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 1595 British English
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
95 Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 British English
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
164 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
1014 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 British English
124 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
317 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost 1913 American English
1610 The Hours Michael Cunningham 1998 American English
361 Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
357 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1939 Irish English
286 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
1476 Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1884 British English
2499 Room Emma Donoghue 2010 Irish English
2224 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
1676 Time and Again Jack Finney 1970 American English
453 I, Claudius Robert Graves 1934 British English
15727 The Return Of The King J. R. R. Tolkien 1955 British English
260 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
1688 Carrie Stephen King 1974 American English
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
2133 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
428 Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 American English
350 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
249 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov 1840 Russian Russian
406 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
307 Medea Euripides -431 Greek Ancient greek
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
6105 A Storm Of Swords George R. R. Martin 2000 American English
1972 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides 1993 American English
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
3107 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams 1987 British English
1261 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000 Canadian English
5495 All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 1972 British English
110 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
1306 Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill 1956 American English
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
636 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 American English
368 Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 American English
432 Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 1837 French French
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English