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
8182 Timescape Gregory Benford 1980 American English
16505 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
5996 The Coddling Of The American Mind Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff 2018 American English
8065 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 2022 American English
8989 Tinkers Paul Harding 2009 American English
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
16508 Table Talk William Hazlitt 1822 English English
8227 We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor 2016 Unknown English
11539 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
17152 Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman Matt Wagner 2005 American English
2382 Battle Cry of Freedom James M. McPherson 1988 American English
7857 Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson 1998 Canadian English
2366 Little Big Man Thomas Berger 1964 American English
17152 A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself Peter Davies 2021 British English
16506 Mountain Meadow John Buchan 1941 Scottish English
14232 The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman 2020 British English
17152 Arvet Efter Arn Jan Guillou 2001 Swedish Swedish
1128 The Price Of Salt Patricia Highsmith 1952 American English
17152 The Walking Drum Louis L'Amour 1984 American English
17152 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
14985 The Adventures Of Amina Al Sirafi S. A. Chakraborty 2023 American English
4531 Der Naturen Bloeme Jacob van Maerlant 1270 Dutch Middle dutch
17152 Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter 1985 American English
2308 The Dead Father Donald Barthelme 1975 American English
786 The Far Pavilions Mary Margaret Kaye 1978 British English
16507 La Vie Heureuse; La Brièveté De La Vie Seneca -49 Latin
2837 Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta 1938 Kenyan English
983 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
12441 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
2233 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 1899 Russian Russian
17152 Girl With Curious Hair David Foster Wallace 1988 American English
5693 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
8961 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
17152 You Sexy Thing Cat Rambo 2021 American English
17152 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
6232 A Night To Remember Walter Lord 1955 American English
17152 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage 村上春樹 2013 Japanese Japanese
11274 Half A Lifelong Romance Eileen Chang 1948 Chinese Chinese
17152 The Primordial Mind In Health And Illness Michael Robbins 2011 American Unknown
14985 Holly Stephen King 2023 American English
17152 Hue 1968 Mark Bowden 2017 American English
7584 Orbital Samantha Harvey 2024 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
14202 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
1682 Asterix the Gaul Rene Goscinny 1959 French French
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
17152 A Bird In Winter Louise Doughty 2023 British English
8067 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
1000 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
14985 Outlive Peter Attia 2023 American English
17152 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
4823 He, She and It Marge Piercy 1991 American English
17152 F*Ck Feelings Sarah Bennett, Michael Bennett 2015 American English
16511 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
1938 Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989 American English
17152 Saul And Morris James Yaffe 1982 Unknown English
7646 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
4532 The Spiritual Espousals Jan van Ruusbroec 1343 Dutch Middle dutch
8387 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
10096 The People In The Trees Hanya Yanagihara 2013 American English
17152 H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American Unknown
17152 Words Of Radiance Brandon Sanderson, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer 2014 American English
17152 The Night Is Large Martin Gardner 1996 American English
2990 The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 German German
14985 Artemis Andy Weir 2017 American English
9513 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
3151 A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Lemony Snicket 1999 American English
8979 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
6654 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
705 Oroonoko Aphra Behn 1688 British English
16510 The Unvanquished William Faulkner 1938 American English
576 Complete Poems Elizabeth Bishop 1969 American English
11211 Based On A True Story Norm Macdonald 2016 Canadian English
17152 The Measure Nikki Erlick 2022 Unknown English
17152 The Antique Hunter's Guide To Murder C.L. Miller 2024 Unknown English
14985 The Human Factor Graham Greene 1978 British English
17152 The Books Of The Bible Anonymous Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, koine greek
17152 The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice And Tribal Wisdom Joan Halifax 1993 American English
17152 Johannes Cabal The Necromancer Jonathan L. Howard 2009 British English
2930 The Waiting Years Fumiko Enchi 1957 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Power Of Less Leo Babauta 2009 Unknown English
3458 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 1944 American English
13941 The Tale Of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo 2003 American English
1504 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1964 American English
4801 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
9299 The Client John Grisham 1993 American English
14985 The Last House On Needless Street Catriona Ward 2021 British English
787 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao 1964 Chinese Chinese
1592 Niels Lyhne Jens Peter Jacobson 1880 Danish Danish
14985 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
17152 Contact With The Stars Reinhard Breuer 1982 German German
3149 Chronicles Jean Froissart 1370 French Middle french
17152 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
5351 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
16514 The Machine Stops E. M. Forster 1909 British English
17152 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17152 Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith 2009 American English
1919 The Dying Earth Jack Vance 1950 American English
1021 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
8101 How Not To Die Michael Greger, Gene Stone 2015 American English
5412 Reflections In A Golden Eye Carson McCullers 1941 American English
16512 O Sonho De Um Homem Ridículo Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 Russian Russian
12023 The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Stroud 2003 British English
3396 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
1258 The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare 1963 Albanian Albanian
2224 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
17152 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17152 Apprentice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
3185 Moon Palace Paul Auster 1989 American English
2615 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1038 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
8349 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
4534 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
16516 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
5151 The Copenhagen Trilogy Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen 1967 Danish Danish
17152 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
6212 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
2427 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 British English
17152 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17152 A Night In The Lonesome October Roger Zelazny 1993 American English