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
8306 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
17010 Revolutionary Characters Gordon S. Wood 2006 American English
2479 The Firm John Grisham 1991 American English
17010 Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, And The Sociology Of Knowledge Gerard Radnitzky 1987 German English
1812 Swan Song Robert R. McCammon 1987 American English
528 Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1635 Spanish Spanish
1524 The Late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello 1904 Italian Italian
17010 The 9th Girl Tami Hoag 2013 American English
15760 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
2238 Forbidden Colors Yukio Mishima 1951 Japanese Japanese
17010 Thou Art That Joseph Campbell American English
10409 Gomorrah Roberto Saviano 2006 Italian Italian
4710 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
17010 Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner 1980 American English
17010 Murder Your Employer Rupert Holmes 2023 American English
17010 Angelmaker Nick Harkaway 2012 British English
8577 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
614 Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1845 Argentinian Spanish
2743 The Romance of the Rose Guillaume (de Lorris) 1230 French Old french
6143 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders 1996 American English
377 The Second World War Winston Churchill 1948 British English
7910 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
16392 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
17010 Hearts In Atlantis Stephen King 1999 American English
17010 Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead 2012 American English
14697 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
1421 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1960 American English
14165 The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern 2019 American English
17010 Expecting Miracles Linda U. Howard 1980 American English
8059 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
15762 Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
14698 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
14901 Q Craig Brown 2024 Unknown English
17010 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
15763 Americana Don DeLillo 1971 American English
17010 Almost Dead Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
1254 Death and the Dervish Meša Selimović 1966 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
913 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 American English
2346 Contact Carl Sagan 1985 American English
1413 Something About Eve James Branch Cabell 1927 American English
15764 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
6888 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
17010 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch 2008 American English
7571 Commonwealth Ann Patchett 2016 American English
1547 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 1971 British English
17010 Everything/Nothing/Someone Alice Carrière 2023 Unknown English
963 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 British English
4370 The Truce Unknown 1963 Italian Spanish
4780 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
2237 Roman De La Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun 1237 French Old french
14791 Tai Pan James Clavell 1966 British English
3853 This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
6112 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
2012 Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980 British English
8849 Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman 2020 American English
15765 Nixon Agonistes The Crisis Of The Self Made Man Garry Wills 1970 American English
3013 The Ministry Of Fear Graham Greene 1943 British English
17010 Inner Engineering Sadhguru 2016 Indian English
15766 The Book Of Chuang Tzu Zhuangzi -369 Chinese Classical chinese
12457 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
17010 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
2636 The Child in Time Ian McEwan 1987 British English
14901 I Hope This Finds You Well Natalie Sue 2024 Unknown English
15767 água Viva Clarice Lispector 1973 Brazilian Portuguese
14789 To Have And Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1937 American English
17010 The Sociology Of Philosophies Randall Collins 1998 American English
17010 In This Corner Of The World Fumiyo Kouno 2007 Japanese Japanese
6975 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
493 Auto Da Fé Elias Canetti 1935 Bulgarian German
2662 The Songlines Bruce Chatwin 1987 British English
4523 Songs Hadewijch 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
1045 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy 1984 American English
514 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 1951 American English
1133 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
9054 Euphoria Lily King 2014 American English
17010 Hot Blooded Lisa Jackson 2001 American English
17010 The Mastery Of Love Don Miguel Ruiz 1999 Mexican English
17010 Fault Lines James Carroll 1980 American English
9242 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
7867 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
6296 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
4394 The Obscene Bird Of Night José Donoso 1970 Chilean Spanish
17010 The Islanders Meg Mitchell Moore 2019 Unknown English
850 Essays, First And Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
6451 Things We Lost In The Fire Mariana Enríquez 2016 Argentinian Spanish
17010 Wrath Of The Triple Goddess Rick Riordan Unknown Unknown
11209 The Book Of Guilt Catherine Chidgey 2025 New Zealander English
7080 Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 British English
4622 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
15770 Winds Of Doctrine George Santayana 1913 American English
6300 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
8150 Child Of God Cormac McCarthy 1973 American English
15772 The Ill Made Knight T.H. White 1940 British English
1116 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
17010 Absolute Fear Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
2864 Strophic Poems Hadewijch 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
10136 So Big Edna Ferber 1924 American English
602 The Go-Between L. P. Hartley 1953 British English
4535 The Stone Of Laughter Hoda Barakat 1990 Lebanese Arabic
8045 Maniac Benjamin Labatut 2023 Chilean Spanish
11517 Humiliated And Insulted Fyodor Dostoevsky 1861 Russian Russian
13916 Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny 2017 American English
15773 Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier 1936 British English
881 The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 1977 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
17010 Last Summer At The Golden Hotel Elyssa Friedland 2021 American English
15774 Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
17010 Flowers For The God Of Love Barbara Cartland British English
3840 Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson 1992 British English
14901 Frogkisser Garth Nix 2017 Australian English
3275 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
17010 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
15775 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
17010 You Will Pay Lisa Jackson 2017 American English
2227 The Twilight Years Sawako Ariyoshi 1972 Japanese Japanese
2744 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
14901 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
15776 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
17010 Vilnius Poker Ričardas Gavelis 1989 Lithuanian Lithuanian
829 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich von Hayek 1944 Austrian English