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
532 The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
3171 Hitchcock Francois Truffaut 1966 French French
14985 Q Craig Brown 2024 Unknown English
17153 Revolutionary Characters Gordon S. Wood 2006 American English
275 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
15880 Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers Pierre Guyotat 1967 French French
3851 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
2326 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 1994 British English
9594 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
8322 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
1244 The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 1300 Italian Old french
3827 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
17153 The Book Of Doors Gareth Brown Unknown Unknown
15881 The Richest Man In Babylon GEORGE S. CLASON 1926 American English
17153 Pathways To Bliss Joseph Campbell American English
17153 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
4124 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
17153 The Boy Tami Hoag 2018 American English
17153 America Right Or Wrong Anatol Lieven 2004 British English
17153 The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 2016 American English
14985 Understanding Comics Scott McCloud 1993 American English
10072 Prufrock and Other Observations T. S. Eliot 1917 British English
5624 Wave Sonali Deraniyagala 2013 Sri Lankan English
8523 The History Of The Franks Gregory of Tours 594 French Latin
11312 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
708 Captain Hornblower R.N. C. S. Forester 1937 British English
5962 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
2546 Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872 Argentinian Spanish
8672 Peace Like A River Leif Enger 2001 American English
2484 The Firm John Grisham 1991 American English
17153 Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 2021 American English
8593 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
17153 The 9th Girl Tami Hoag 2013 American English
4719 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
16515 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
17153 Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner 1980 American English
1813 Swan Song Robert R. McCammon 1987 American English
10435 Gomorrah Roberto Saviano 2006 Italian Italian
17153 Murder Your Employer Rupert Holmes 2023 American English
17153 Angelmaker Nick Harkaway 2012 British English
379 The Second World War Winston Churchill 1948 British English
17153 Hearts In Atlantis Stephen King 1999 American English
7671 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
15882 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
6153 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders 1996 American English
17153 Wrath Of The Triple Goddess Rick Riordan Unknown Unknown
583 Against Nature J. K. Huysmans 1884 French French
2248 Forbidden Colors Yukio Mishima 1951 Japanese Japanese
17153 Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, And The Sociology Of Knowledge Gerard Radnitzky 1987 German English
529 Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1635 Spanish Spanish
3933 Tales from the Kathasaritsagara Somadeva 1070 Indian Sanskrit
17153 Thou Art That Joseph Campbell American English
7926 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
17153 Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead 2012 American English
2747 The Romance of the Rose Guillaume (de Lorris) 1230 French Old french
17153 Banners Of Silk Rosalind Laker 1981 British English
614 Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1845 Argentinian Spanish
1525 The Late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello 1904 Italian Italian
1414 Something About Eve James Branch Cabell 1927 American English
4376 The Truce Unknown 1963 Italian Spanish
8074 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
14878 Tai Pan James Clavell 1966 British English
7588 Commonwealth Ann Patchett 2016 American English
2247 Roman De La Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun 1237 French Old french
17153 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
914 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 American English
17153 Everything/Nothing/Someone Alice Carrière 2023 Unknown English
17153 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch 2008 American English
1422 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1960 American English
14985 Frogkisser Garth Nix 2017 Australian English
2353 Contact Carl Sagan 1985 American English
4789 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
14232 The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern 2019 American English
963 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 British English
1549 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 1971 British English
15886 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15883 Ocean Of The Streams Of Story Somadeva 1063 Indian Sanskrit
17153 Almost Dead Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
14785 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
1254 Death and the Dervish Meša Selimović 1966 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
17153 Love, Dad Evan Hunter 1981 American English
15885 Americana Don DeLillo 1971 American English
14985 I Hope This Finds You Well Natalie Sue 2024 Unknown English
9260 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
15889 água Viva Clarice Lispector 1973 Brazilian Portuguese
9073 Euphoria Lily King 2014 American English
17153 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
4808 Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz 1977 American English
17153 Under The Dome Stephen King 2009 American English
493 Auto Da Fé Elias Canetti 1935 Bulgarian German
5959 Microserfs Douglas Coupland 1995 Canadian English
4528 Songs Hadewijch 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
17153 In This Corner Of The World Fumiyo Kouno 2007 Japanese Japanese
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
17153 The Islanders Meg Mitchell Moore 2019 Unknown English
17153 Inner Engineering Sadhguru 2016 Indian English
2017 Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980 British English
15887 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
3858 This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
7883 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
17153 Hot Blooded Lisa Jackson 2001 American English
15890 The Book Of Chuang Tzu Zhuangzi -369 Chinese Classical chinese
852 Essays, First And Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
17153 The Mastery Of Love Don Miguel Ruiz 1999 Mexican English
1048 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy 1984 American English
2640 The Child in Time Ian McEwan 1987 British English
1134 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
15888 Nixon Agonistes The Crisis Of The Self Made Man Garry Wills 1970 American English
17153 The Sociology Of Philosophies Randall Collins 1998 American English
514 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 1951 American English
2667 The Songlines Bruce Chatwin 1987 British English
3022 The Ministry Of Fear Graham Greene 1943 British English
6122 The Lives Of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones 1988 British English
4399 The Obscene Bird Of Night José Donoso 1970 Chilean Spanish
12488 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
14877 To Have And Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1937 American English
4630 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
17153 Absolute Fear Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
13967 Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny 2017 American English