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
17010 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
16383 La Vie Heureuse; La Brièveté De La Vie Seneca -49 Latin
785 The Far Pavilions Mary Margaret Kaye 1978 British English
14901 The Adventures Of Amina Al Sirafi S. A. Chakraborty 2023 American English
17010 Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter 1985 American English
12411 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
17010 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage 村上春樹 2013 Japanese Japanese
4526 Der Naturen Bloeme Jacob van Maerlant 1270 Dutch Middle dutch
17010 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17010 Arvet Efter Arn Jan Guillou 2001 Swedish Swedish
5683 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
14136 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
16387 The Unvanquished William Faulkner 1938 American English
2983 The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 German German
11180 Based On A True Story Norm Macdonald 2016 Canadian English
8964 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
17010 F*Ck Feelings Sarah Bennett, Michael Bennett 2015 American English
6642 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
17010 Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn 2006 American English
17010 The Night Is Large Martin Gardner 1996 American English
17010 Words Of Radiance Brandon Sanderson, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer 2014 American English
17010 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
14901 Artemis Andy Weir 2017 American English
576 Complete Poems Elizabeth Bishop 1969 American English
17010 A Bird In Winter Louise Doughty 2023 British English
1680 Asterix the Gaul Rene Goscinny 1959 French French
3146 A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Lemony Snicket 1999 American English
1935 Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989 American English
8370 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
10080 The People In The Trees Hanya Yanagihara 2013 American English
4527 The Spiritual Espousals Jan van Ruusbroec 1343 Dutch Middle dutch
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
17010 H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American Unknown
7569 Orbital Samantha Harvey 2024 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Antique Hunter's Guide To Murder C.L. Miller 2024 Unknown English
8052 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
999 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
705 Oroonoko Aphra Behn 1688 British English
17010 The Measure Nikki Erlick 2022 Unknown English
14901 The Human Factor Graham Greene 1978 British English
4815 He, She and It Marge Piercy 1991 American English
17010 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
14901 Outlive Peter Attia 2023 American English
9281 The Client John Grisham 1993 American English
2421 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 British English
3144 Chronicles Jean Froissart 1370 French Middle french
1257 The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 Albanian Albanian
6204 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
1917 The Dying Earth Jack Vance 1950 American English
16390 The Machine Stops E. M. Forster 1909 British English
5342 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
17010 Banners Of Silk Rosalind Laker 1981 British English
17010 The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice And Tribal Wisdom Joan Halifax 1993 American English
16392 O Sonho De Um Homem Ridículo Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 Russian Russian
1588 Niels Lyhne Jens Peter Jacobson 1880 Danish Danish
3391 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
1035 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
3456 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 1944 American English
4529 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
786 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao 1964 Chinese Chinese
8334 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
2612 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
16393 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
17010 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17010 The Power Of Less Leo Babauta 2009 Unknown English
17010 Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith 2009 American English
2213 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
4793 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
2923 The Waiting Years Fumiko Enchi 1957 Japanese Japanese
3179 Moon Palace Paul Auster 1989 American English
17010 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
8085 How Not To Die Michael Greger, Gene Stone 2015 American English
17010 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
5142 The Copenhagen Trilogy Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen 1967 Danish Danish
13890 The Tale Of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo 2003 American English
1018 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
14901 The Last House On Needless Street Catriona Ward 2021 British English
11997 The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Stroud 2003 British English
17010 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
14901 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
11244 Half A Lifelong Romance Eileen Chang 1948 Chinese Chinese
17010 Contact With The Stars Reinhard Breuer 1982 German German
17010 Johannes Cabal The Necromancer Jonathan L. Howard 2009 British English
17010 The Sword Of Kaigen M. L. Wang 2019 Unknown English
14101 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
7631 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
4151 Human Acts Han Kang 2014 Korean Korean
17010 New X Men, Vol. 1 Grant Morrison 2001 British English
17010 Innumeracy John Allen Paulos 1988 American English
10603 United States Gore Vidal 1993 American English
17010 Abraham Lincoln Seth Grahame-Smith 2010 American English
17010 The Last Olympian Rick Riordan 2009 American English
6569 Zuckerman Bound Philip Roth 1985 American English
2164 Surfacing Margaret Atwood 1972 Canadian English
8237 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841 British English
17010 The Lost Boy Dave Pelzer 1997 American English
1503 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1964 American English
2402 That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern 2002 Irish English
17010 An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 American English
17010 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
3427 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
3260 The Days Of Abandonment Elena Ferrante 2002 Italian Italian
910 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber 1905 German German
14734 Summulae De Dialectica John Buridan, Gyula Klima 1350 French Latin
17010 Love, Dad Evan Hunter 1981 American English
9494 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
17010 Sara's Face Melvin Burgess 2006 British English
17010 The Man In The Red Coat Julian Barnes 2019 British English
3308 Roughing It Mark Twain 1872 American English
17010 In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord 1984 American English
16394 On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche 1873 German German
17010 Vicious V. E. Schwab 2013 American English
17010 Historia De Una Gaviota Y Del Gato Que Le Enseñó A Volar Luis Sepúlveda 1996 Chilean Spanish
449 Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 British English
9039 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
17010 Rhythm Of War Brandon Sanderson 2020 American English
17010 When They Call You A Terrorist Patrisse Khan-Cullors 2018 American English
2358 Little Big Man Thomas Berger 1964 American English
1923 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano 1789 African English
17010 Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 2018 Unknown English