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
3581 Selected Poems Andrew Marvell 1681 British English
8542 Whipping Girl Julia Serano 2007 American English
4978 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
17114 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17114 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 1 Hayao Miyazaki 1982 Japanese Japanese
16519 The Steadfast Tin Soldier Hans Christian Andersen 1966 Danish Danish
14785 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1897 British English
426 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese 1950 Italian Italian
2986 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
17114 The Treasure Hunters Club Tom Ryan 2024 Unknown English
5889 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
360 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
17114 The Year Of The Ladybird Graham Joyce 2013 British English
3440 In Search Of The Castaways Jules Verne 1867 French French
17114 The Art Of Seduction Robert Greene 2001 American English
5592 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
17114 Eight Dates John Mordechai Gottman, Doug Abrams, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Rachel Carlton Abrams M.D. 2019 American English
6146 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
17114 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
2875 Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris 1960 Guyanese English
7869 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
2867 Dead Zone Stephen King 1979 American English
17114 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17114 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
17114 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
2138 The Worm Ouroboros E. R. Eddison 1922 British English
17114 Coffeeshop In An Alternate Universe C.B. Lee Unknown Unknown
16522 The Fortunate Pilgrim Mario Puzo 1965 American English
13064 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 American English
6378 The Mysterious Island Jules Verne 1874 French French
474 Embers Sandor Marai 1942 Hungarian Hungarian
17114 Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior Phil Jackson 1995 American English
17114 Austen Years Cohen, Rachel 2020 American English
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
17114 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
309 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
2715 Something Happened Joseph Heller 1974 American English
17114 Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green 2013 British English
1037 The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston 1976 American English
14983 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
13236 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
9075 Good Material Dolly Alderton 2024 British English
8550 Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst 2024 Unknown English
17114 Orfeo Richard Powers 2014 American English
17114 Time And Narrative, Volume 3 Paul Ricoeur 1985 French French
3099 Diary Of A Mad Old Man Junichiro Tanizaki 1961 Japanese Japanese
7792 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
6927 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
16523 Nutcracker E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 German
2100 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson 2007 American English
1754 Changing Places David Lodge 1975 British English
17114 Diary Chuck Palahniuk 2003 American English
17114 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 2 Hayao Miyazaki 1983 Japanese Japanese
4056 The Tunnel William H. Gass 1995 American English
16525 The Red Laugh Leonid Andreyev 1904 Russian English
17114 Dear Medusa Olivia A. Cole 2023 American English
17114 The Pleasure Dome Judith Liederman 1981 Unknown English
17114 Run Towards The Danger Sarah Polley 2022 Canadian English
17114 Naruto, Vol. 1 Masashi Kishimoto 1999 Japanese Japanese
14232 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
17114 The Lost Children Of Wilder Nina Bernstein 2001 American English
6253 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 2017 Irish English
17114 The Tales Of Beedle The Bard J. K. Rowling 2008 British English
5733 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre 2003 British English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
478 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French French
17114 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
16549 The Power Of The Dog Thomas Savage 1967 American English
17114 Consilience E. O. Wilson 1998 American English
1929 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
17114 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17114 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 3 Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Japanese Japanese
14983 I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett 2010 British English
586 The Third Man Graham Greene 1949 British English
4895 The Emissary Yoko Tawada 2014 Japanese Japanese
17114 Is There A Dog In This Book? Viviane Schwarz 2014 British English
4290 Finite And Infinite Games James P. Carse 1986 American English
17114 The Lions Of Lucerne Brad Thor 2002 American English
17114 Gates Of Fire Steven Pressfield 1998 American English
1250 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906 Swedish Swedish
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
3801 A Imortalidade Milan Kundera 1990 Czech Czech
14983 Gai Jin James Clavell 1993 American English
16550 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17114 Supergirl Tom King 2021 American English
16551 Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 British English
2769 Unkempt Thoughts Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 1950 Polish Polish
17114 The E Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber 1995 American English
4284 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner 1930 American English
5267 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
640 Black Boy Richard Wright 1945 American English
16632 Curtain Agatha Christie 1975 British English
17114 A Girl Is A Body Of Water Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 2020 Ugandan English
16552 Fanny By Gaslight Michael Sadleir 1940 British English
17114 Divergent Veronica Roth 2011 American English
6078 The Power Of The Dog Don Winslow 2005 American English
17114 The Courage To Be Disliked Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga 2013 Japanese Japanese
17114 Thornhedge T. Kingfisher 2023 Unknown English
17114 Sing Backwards And Weep Mark Lanegan 2020 American English
17114 A Chance Meeting Cohen, Rachel 2004 American English
17114 The Laws Of Human Nature Robert Greene 2018 American English
17114 Theories Of Everything John D. Barrow 1991 British English
2445 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
17114 The Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum 1990 American English
5890 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1923 British English
17114 The Square Of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson 2023 British English
16553 Playing And Reality Donald Winnicott 1971 British English
17114 The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 2018 English
17114 Akira, Vol. 1 Katsuhiro Otomo 1984 Japanese Japanese
3265 Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
555 The Lady with the Dog Anton Chekhov 1899 Russian Russian
17114 Interior Chinatown Charles Yu 2020 American English
7675 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
9277 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
17114 The Yiddish Policeman's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
17114 The Dalemark Quartet Diana Wynne Jones 1993 British English
17114 Close Your Eyes And Count To 10 Lisa Unger American Unknown
9069 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
378 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 1820 British English
17114 The House Of Hades Rick Riordan 2013 American English