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
1599 On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleža 1938 Croatian Croatian
8545 Beautiful Swimmers William Warner 1976 American English
1930 On Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
17010 Berserk Volume 5 Kentaro Miura 1992 Japanese Japanese
17010 Run Blake Crouch 2011 American English
2764 The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1926 Japanese Japanese
812 Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1963 British English
1954 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
10609 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
16375 The Earth Is The Lord's Taylor Caldwell 1940 American English
2063 The Black Dahlia James Ellroy 1987 American English
17010 Scott Pilgrim The Complete Series Bryan Lee O'Malley 2010 Canadian English
16376 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry 1966 American English
14901 You Are Here David Nicholls 2024 Unknown English
14901 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 2019 British English
16377 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
499 Platero Juan Ramón Jiménez 1914 Spanish Spanish
2387 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
3432 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
10993 Jerome Jean-Pierre Martinet 1978 French French
17010 Voyage Of The Damned Frances White 2024 Unknown English
17010 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17010 Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson 2022 Australian English
3267 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
17010 The Tangled Wing Melvin Konner 1982 American English
6972 Hawthorn & Child Keith Ridgway 2012 Irish English
17010 Mind And Cosmos Thomas Nagel 2012 American English
17010 Station Eternity Mur Lafferty 2022 American English
4844 The American Political Tradition Richard Hofstadter 1948 American English
14795 Dulcitius Hrotsvitha 990 German Latin
4981 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
17010 Wizard And Glass Stephen King 1997 American English
17010 My Year Of Meat Ruth Ozeki 1998 American English
6275 Earth Abides George Rippey Stewart 1949 American English
4118 Either Or Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
2329 How to be both Ali Smith 2014 British English
10148 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
17010 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17010 Kingdom Come Mark Waid 1996 American English
6227 Tar Baby Toni Morrison 1981 American English
10974 Balkan Ghosts Robert D. Kaplan 1993 American English
14901 I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson 1999 American English
6859 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
14106 Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol 1963 American English
14901 The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 2008 Canadian English
2885 Distant Star Roberto Bolaño 1996 Chilean Spanish
14901 The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce 2011 American English
17010 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
2411 Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney 1984 American English
13870 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
14901 We Used To Live Here Marcus Kliewer 2024 Unknown Unknown
10721 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
2376 Don Segundo Sombra Ricardo Güiraldes 1926 Argentinian Spanish
3417 The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein 2007 Canadian English
3803 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
17010 Timequake Kurt Vonnegut 1997 American English
17010 Make It Stick Peter Brown 2014 American English
16380 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
17010 Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
17010 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17010 White Tears Hari Kunzru 2017 British English
16381 Sun & Steel Yukio Mishima 1968 Japanese Japanese
14901 Tremor Teju Cole 2023 American Unknown
17010 Jesus Tales Romulus Linney 1983 American English
11262 You Are Not A Gadget Jaron Lanier 2010 American English
17010 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17010 A Good Girl's Guide To Murder Holly Jackson 2019 British English
890 Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 Austrian German
5416 Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 2024 Irish English
17010 Heroes Stephen Fry 2018 British English
17010 Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion 2021 American English
3220 Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare 1600 British English
639 Testament Of Youth Vera Brittain 1933 British English
732 The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk 1951 American English
1056 Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Jung 1963 Swiss German
17010 The Last Days Of Jack Sparks Jason Arnopp 2016 British English
17010 Would You Kill The Fat Man? David Edmonds 2013 British English
703 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 American English
17010 The Murders In Great Diddling Katarina Bivald 2024 Swedish Unknown
1140 The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 British English
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
2661 The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould 1981 American English
9690 The Etymologies Isidore of Seville 630 Spanish Latin
10170 City of Glass Paul Auster 1985 American English
2373 The Will To Power Friedrich Nietzsche 1901 German German
5992 The Cipher Kathe Koja 1991 American English
8413 All Fours Miranda July 2024 American English
17010 No Stone Unturned Josephine Lawrence American English
4790 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
1096 My Name Is Aram William Saroyan 1940 American English
7097 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
8166 Timescape Gregory Benford 1980 American English
11513 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
785 The Far Pavilions Mary Margaret Kaye 1978 British English
6224 A Night To Remember Walter Lord 1955 American English
17010 Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter 1985 American English
16382 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
8946 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
17010 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
17010 Limbo Joel Hammil 1980 Unknown English
17010 A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself Peter Davies 2021 British English
7841 Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson 1998 Canadian English
1990 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
8211 We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor 2016 Unknown English
5986 The Coddling Of The American Mind Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff 2018 American English
17010 Arvet Efter Arn Jan Guillou 2001 Swedish Swedish
12411 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
16383 La Vie Heureuse; La Brièveté De La Vie Seneca -49 Latin
2301 The Dead Father Donald Barthelme 1975 American English
4526 Der Naturen Bloeme Jacob van Maerlant 1270 Dutch Middle dutch
17010 Kurashi At Home Marie Kondo 2022 Japanese Japanese
1127 The Price Of Salt Patricia Highsmith 1952 American English
5683 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
17010 Hue 1968 Mark Bowden 2017 American English
17010 The Walking Drum Louis L'Amour 1984 American English
8050 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 2022 American English
14901 Holly Stephen King 2023 American English
1173 As A Man Grows Older Italo Svevo 1898 Italian Italian
982 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
17010 You Sexy Thing Cat Rambo 2021 American English