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 Running With Sherman Chris McDougall 2019 American English
5811 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
6250 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
17152 After She's Gone Lisa Jackson 2015 American English
14985 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck Mark Manson 2016 American English
6458 The Essential Ellison Harlan Ellison 1987 American English
17152 Berserk Volume 6 Kentaro Miura 1994 Japanese Japanese
15908 Fanny By Gaslight Michael Sadleir 1940 British English
5425 Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 2024 Irish English
17152 Why You Love Music John Powell 2016 British English
8561 Beautiful Swimmers William Warner 1976 American English
17152 Left To Die Lisa Jackson 2008 American English
2751 Decisive Moments in History Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
17152 A Short Stay In Hell Steven L. Peck 2012 American English
14176 The Spy And The Traitor Ben Macintyre 2018 British English
14985 Welcome To The Hyunam Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-reum 2022 Unknown Korean
2476 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
17152 The First Man In Rome Colleen McCullough 1990 Australian English
2444 Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain 1894 American English
17152 Jane Austen Jane Austen British Unknown
1600 On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleža 1938 Croatian Croatian
15909 The Ages Of The World F. W. J. Schelling 1815 German German
10630 History Of England David Hume 1754 British English
7105 Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat 2007 Haitian English
17152 A Game Of Thrones / A Clash Of Kings George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
2352 The Box Man Kobo Abé 1973 Japanese Japanese
463 The Songs of Maldoror Comte de Lautréamont 1868 French French
3889 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
446 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
17152 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
2394 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
17152 My Year Of Meat Ruth Ozeki 1998 American English
6981 Hawthorn & Child Keith Ridgway 2012 Irish English
17152 Mind And Cosmos Thomas Nagel 2012 American English
17152 Run Blake Crouch 2011 American English
17152 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
4991 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
17152 Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson 2022 Australian English
2068 The Black Dahlia James Ellroy 1987 American English
4852 The American Political Tradition Richard Hofstadter 1948 American English
17152 Station Eternity Mur Lafferty 2022 American English
499 Platero Juan Ramón Jiménez 1914 Spanish Spanish
14985 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 2019 British English
1959 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
16495 H.M. Pulham, Esq. John P. Marquand 1941 American English
812 Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1963 British English
11023 Jerome Jean-Pierre Martinet 1978 French French
17152 Scott Pilgrim The Complete Series Bryan Lee O'Malley 2010 Canadian English
16499 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry 1966 American English
3436 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
17152 The Tangled Wing Melvin Konner 1982 American English
17152 Berserk Volume 5 Kentaro Miura 1992 Japanese Japanese
6284 Earth Abides George Rippey Stewart 1949 American English
14985 You Are Here David Nicholls 2024 Unknown English
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
17152 History Of England From The Accession Of King James I. Samuel Rawson Gardiner English English
1933 On Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
16498 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
17152 Kurashi At Home Marie Kondo 2022 Japanese Japanese
2768 The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1926 Japanese Japanese
10636 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
14880 Dulcitius Hrotsvitha 990 German Latin
17152 Wizard And Glass Stephen King 1997 American English
726 The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk 1951 American English
16504 Sun & Steel Yukio Mishima 1968 Japanese Japanese
3421 The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein 2007 Canadian English
17152 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
2164 Essays Charles Lamb 1823 British English
14985 We Used To Live Here Marcus Kliewer 2024 Unknown Unknown
17152 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17152 Kingdom Come Mark Waid 1996 American English
3807 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
14169 Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol 1963 American English
6868 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
17152 Timequake Kurt Vonnegut 1997 American English
13922 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
2892 Distant Star Roberto Bolaño 1996 Chilean Spanish
6235 Tar Baby Toni Morrison 1981 American English
17152 Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
14985 I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson 1999 American English
14985 The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 2008 Canadian English
2384 Don Segundo Sombra Ricardo Güiraldes 1926 Argentinian Spanish
11292 You Are Not A Gadget Jaron Lanier 2010 American English
16502 Swamp Water Vereen Bell 1941 American English
17152 Make It Stick Peter Brown 2014 American English
17152 A Good Girl's Guide To Murder Holly Jackson 2019 British English
11004 Balkan Ghosts Robert D. Kaplan 1993 American English
891 Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 Austrian German
4123 Either Or Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
10165 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
17152 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
16503 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
17152 White Tears Hari Kunzru 2017 British English
10749 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
2417 Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney 1984 American English
2335 How to be both Ali Smith 2014 British English
14985 Tremor Teju Cole 2023 American Unknown
17152 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
2381 The Will To Power Friedrich Nietzsche 1901 German German
17152 Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion 2021 American English
689 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
17152 The Murders In Great Diddling Katarina Bivald 2024 Swedish Unknown
8431 All Fours Miranda July 2024 American English
1141 The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 British English
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
17152 Heroes Stephen Fry 2018 British English
1058 Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Jung 1963 Swiss German
3226 Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare 1600 British English
642 Testament Of Youth Vera Brittain 1933 British English
4798 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
6593 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
10189 City of Glass Paul Auster 1985 American English
17152 The Last Days Of Jack Sparks Jason Arnopp 2016 British English
6000 The Cipher Kathe Koja 1991 American English
9706 The Etymologies Isidore of Seville 630 Spanish Latin
17152 Would You Kill The Fat Man? David Edmonds 2013 British English
2666 The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould 1981 American English
2109 Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press 1884 British English
1174 As A Man Grows Older Italo Svevo 1898 Italian Italian