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
7631 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
11842 Bad Blood Lorna Sage 2000 British English
14901 The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie 2006 British English
17010 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
17010 The Last Olympian Rick Riordan 2009 American English
8237 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841 British English
3260 The Days Of Abandonment Elena Ferrante 2002 Italian Italian
14901 Catching Fire Suzanne Collins 2009 American English
9264 News Of The World Paulette Jiles 2016 American English
17010 Into The Silent Land Martin Laird 2006 British English
4446 The Eye Of The World Robert Jordan 1990 American English
16397 The Odessa File Frederick Forsyth 1972 British English
436 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 Austrian German
17010 Lyra's Oxford Philip Pullman 2003 British English
17010 La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman 2017 British English
17010 Last Of The Breed Louis L'Amour 1987 American English
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
17010 Death Neil Gaiman 1993 British English
6597 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
517 Being and Time Martin Heidegger 1927 German German
17010 Lost In Shangri La Mitchell Zuckoff 2011 American English
7674 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton 2023 New Zealand English
2734 Look Back In Anger John Osborne 1956 British English
5877 House With The Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1901 Scottish English
16398 Economics In One Lesson Henry Hazlitt 1946 American English
14901 The Pillowman Martin McDonagh 2003 Irish English
2133 The Assault Harry Mulisch 1982 Dutch Dutch
4192 The Master Of Go Yasunari Kawabata 1951 Japanese Japanese
2243 A Field Guide to the Birds Roger Tory Peterson 1934 American English
17010 Death Note, Vol. 1 Tsugumi Ohba 2003 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
14770 Alone Richard Byrd 1938 American English
2383 The Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan 1990 American English
6929 Clear And Present Danger Tom Clancy 1989 American English
11537 Essays In Idleness Yoshida Kenko 1330 Japanese Japanese
2434 Puckoon Spike Milligan 1963 Irish English
2432 The Crow Road Iain Banks 1992 British English
7770 Lessons In Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 2022 American English
3162 The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville 1357 Unknown French
698 The Nibelungenlied Unknown 1200 German Middle high german
17010 Love, Dad Evan Hunter 1981 American English
17010 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17010 The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday 2016 American English
13287 Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher 2022 American English
14901 The Sea And Summer George Turner 1987 Australian English
17010 The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling 2012 British English
16402 Reflections On The Psalms C. S. Lewis 1958 British English
17010 The Wolf Border Sarah Hall 2015 British English
17010 The Sandman, Vol. 9 Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
17010 Our Final Century Martin Rees 2003 British English
17010 In The Miso Soup Ryū Murakami 1997 Japanese Japanese
677 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett 1771 British English
1995 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas Llosa 1977 Peruvian Spanish
14901 Blood Over Bright Haven M. L. Wang 2024 Unknown Unknown
1051 The Kalevala Elias Lönnrot 1835 Finnish Finnish
17010 Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama 2002 American English
3812 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
895 The Darkroom Of Damocles W.F. Hermans 1958 Dutch Dutch
17010 Why Fish Don’t Exist Lulu Miller 2020 American English
1362 Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya 1954 Indian English
1445 Faceless Killers Henning Mankell 1991 Swedish Swedish
2017 The Color of Water James McBride 1995 American English
5878 The Girl With The Golden Eyes Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
14901 The Mercy Of Gods James S. A. Corey 2024 Unknown Unknown
17010 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17010 Shy Max Porter 2023 British English
17010 Ritual And Its Consequences: An Essay On The Limits Of Sincerity Adam B. Seligman 2008 American English
17010 Crank Ellen Hopkins 2004 American English
3317 Post Office Charles Bukowski 1971 American English
3914 Collected Poems Allen Ginsberg 1984 American English
842 The Evenings Gerard Reve 1947 Dutch Dutch
16404 Cows, Pigs, Wars And Witches: The Riddels Of Culture Marvin Harris 1974 American English
14901 Summer Of Night Dan Simmons 1991 American English
17010 We3 Grant Morrison 2004 British English
17010 The Book Of Life Deborah Harkness 2014 American English
17010 Patriot Games Tom Clancy 1987 American English
17010 It's All In Your Head Russ Rymer 1992 Unknown English
403 The Words Jean Paul Sartre 1963 French French
1905 Consider The Lobster David Foster Wallace 2005 American English
17010 The Terminal List Jack Carr 2018 American English
648 Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1274 Italian Latin
14840 Libro De Buen Amor Juan Ruiz 1330 Spanish Spanish
16405 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
2711 The Narrow Road to the Deep North Matsuo Bashō 1684 Japanese Japanese
1270 Omeros Derek Walcott 1990 Saint Lucian English
981 Speedboat Renata Adler 1976 American English
14901 The Teller Of Small Fortunes Julie Leong 2024 Unknown English
7825 Stick Elmore Leonard 1983 American English
2377 Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis 1985 American English
17010 The Kills Patrick House 2013 Unknown English
5228 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
2043 Amusing Ourselves To Death Neil Postman 1985 American English
8252 You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi 2022 Nigerian English
17010 Apprentice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
17010 Harry Potter Series Box Set J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
5344 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem 1999 American English
2960 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
9243 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
12270 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
2128 The Worm Ouroboros E. R. Eddison 1922 British English
7854 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 1 Hayao Miyazaki 1982 Japanese Japanese
14842 Equus Peter Shaffer 1973 British English
2718 Revelations Of Divine Love Julian of Norwich 1395 English Middle english
2688 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
14699 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1897 British English
2982 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
425 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese 1950 Italian Italian
17010 M.D. Neil Ravin 1981 Unknown English
2607 Whatever Michel Houellebecq 1994 French French
6140 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
17010 Accomplice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Treasure Hunters Club Tom Ryan 2024 Unknown English
17010 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
5879 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
2863 Dead Zone Stephen King 1979 American English
17010 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
17010 Religion Explained Pascal Boyer 2001 French English
357 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
4554 Star Of The Sea Joseph O'Connor 2003 Irish English