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
11238 The Book Of Guilt Catherine Chidgey 2025 New Zealander English
17120 Absolute Fear Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
1118 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
1306 Widdershins G. Oliver Onions 1911 British English
17120 Vilnius Poker Ričardas Gavelis 1989 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17120 Last Summer At The Golden Hotel Elyssa Friedland 2021 American English
2747 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
17120 You Will Pay Lisa Jackson 2017 American English
3846 Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson 1992 British English
17120 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
17120 Superman For All Seasons Jeph Loeb 1998 American English
14984 Frogkisser Garth Nix 2017 Australian English
17120 I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom Jason Pargin American Unknown
17120 Can't Hurt Me David Goggins 2018 American English
3280 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
15887 Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
609 The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq 1951 French French
14984 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
15888 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15889 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
602 The Go-Between L. P. Hartley 1953 British English
829 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich von Hayek 1944 Austrian English
17120 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
2238 The Twilight Years Sawako Ariyoshi 1972 Japanese Japanese
17120 Calling Invisible Women Jeanne Ray 2012 American English
4118 The Honjin Murders Seishi Yokomizo 1946 Japanese Japanese
5263 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
14984 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor 2002 British English
17120 The Immortals Of Meluha Amish Tripathi 2010 Indian English
3088 I, Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú Tum 1983 Guatemalan Spanish
17120 The Silence Of The Lambs And Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1991 American Unknown
2419 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
17120 Savage Beauty Nancy Milford 2001 American English
17120 Problems Of Knowledge Michael J. Williams 2001 American English
7733 Despair Vladimir Nabokov 1934 Russian Russian
583 Against Nature J. K. Huysmans 1884 French French
14984 I Was A Teenage Slasher Stephen Graham Jones 2024 American Unknown
15891 Dracul Bram Stoker 1897 Unknown English
17120 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
17120 Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk 2002 American English
2513 Deathbird Stories Harlan Ellison 1975 American English
9363 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
17120 Never Split The Difference Chris Voss 2016 American English
14984 Song Of Time Ian R. MacLeod 2008 British English
376 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 American English
15892 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
17120 Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction Jan Westerhoff 2009 British English
17120 If She Only Knew Lisa Jackson 2000 American English
894 Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967 American English
4530 Minneliederen Hendrik van Veldeke 1170 German Middle dutch
1731 Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin 1977 French English
7902 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
17120 Under The Dome Stephen King 2009 American English
284 The Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette 1678 French French
14232 The Lies Of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch 2006 American English
6605 Pavilion Of Women Pearl S. Buck 1946 American English
1553 Beauty and Sadness Yasunari Kawabata 1964 Japanese Japanese
17120 Mythos Stephen Fry 2017 British English
17120 Banners Of Silk Rosalind Laker 1981 British English
14984 The Midnight Feast Lucy Foley 2024 Unknown Unknown
17120 Deep Freeze Lisa Jackson 2005 American English
14984 The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten 1997 American English
9369 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
17120 The Carrying Ada Limón 2018 American English
13518 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1962 American English
14984 The Flanders Panel Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1990 Spanish Spanish
17120 Fields Of Sense: A New Realist Ontology Markus Gabriel 2013 German English
2145 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 American English
11544 Hildegard Of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen 1152 German Latin
14875 Scivias Hildegard of Bingen 1151 German Latin
9107 Gabriel's Moon William Boyd 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Best Of Me David Sedaris 2020 American English
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
17120 Relativism Refuted Harvey Siegel 1987 American English
3287 The Aspern Papers Henry James 1888 American English
15894 Angle Of Repose, The Spectator Bird, Crossing To Safety Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
17120 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17120 Berserk, Vol. 8 Kentaro Miura 1994 Japanese Japanese
1677 A Theory of Justice John Rawls 1971 American English
10125 The Winds Of Change Eugene Linden 2006 Unknown English
17120 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
1065 La Bête humaine Émile Zola 1890 French French
17120 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
2664 The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
1219 The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia 1929 Italian Italian
15895 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
2875 River of Fire Qurratulain Hyder 1959 Indian Urdu
17120 After She's Gone Lisa Jackson 2015 American English
17120 Berserk Volume 7 Kentaro Miura 1995 Japanese Japanese
9142 Talk Before Sleep Elizabeth Berg 1994 American English
14787 The Beast in the Jungle Henry James 1903 American English
2608 The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
14984 Margo's Got Money Troubles Rufi Thorpe 2024 American English
14204 High-Rise J. G. Ballard 1975 British English
15896 The Retreat To Commitment William Warren Bartley 1962 American English
17120 Love, Dad Evan Hunter 1981 American English
7567 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7701 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
17120 You Like It Darker Stephen King Unknown Unknown
1275 The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö 1968 Swedish Swedish
5810 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
2749 Physica Hildegard of Bingen 1150 German Latin
17120 Running With Sherman Chris McDougall 2019 American English
17120 The Gift Of Rain Tan Twang Eng 2007 Malaysian English
6249 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
17120 The Voice Of Knowledge Don Miguel Ruiz 2004 American English
6457 The Essential Ellison Harlan Ellison 1987 American English
14176 The Spy And The Traitor Ben Macintyre 2018 British English
17120 Left To Die Lisa Jackson 2008 American English
14984 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck Mark Manson 2016 American English
2475 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
17120 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
2443 Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain 1894 American English
17120 Jane Austen Jane Austen British Unknown
15898 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
17120 A Short Stay In Hell Steven L. Peck 2012 American English
17120 Why You Love Music John Powell 2016 British English
3890 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
1603 On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleža 1938 Croatian Croatian
17120 A Game Of Thrones / A Clash Of Kings George R. R. Martin 1996 American English