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
2607 Whatever Michel Houellebecq 1994 French French
8530 Whipping Girl Julia Serano 2007 American English
2688 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
17010 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
838 Winnetou Karl May 1893 German German
17010 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17010 The Treasure Hunters Club Tom Ryan 2024 Unknown English
16409 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
17010 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17010 The Arrangement Kiersten Modglin 2021 Unknown English
5585 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
4554 Star Of The Sea Joseph O'Connor 2003 Irish English
2982 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
17010 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
14843 Equus Peter Shaffer 1973 British English
17010 Eight Dates John Mordechai Gottman, Doug Abrams, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Rachel Carlton Abrams M.D. 2019 American English
1458 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Carson McCullers 1951 American English
17010 The City Of Dreaming Books Walter Moers 2004 German German
425 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese 1950 Italian Italian
16408 The Steadfast Tin Soldier Hans Christian Andersen 1966 Danish Danish
2863 Dead Zone Stephen King 1979 American English
5880 Louis Lambert Honoré de Balzac 1832 French French
357 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
16415 The Red Laugh Leonid Andreyev 1904 Russian English
17010 Coffeeshop In An Alternate Universe C.B. Lee Unknown Unknown
6918 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
7777 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
4051 The Tunnel William H. Gass 1995 American English
17010 Orfeo Richard Powers 2014 American English
17010 Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior Phil Jackson 1995 American English
17010 Consilience E. O. Wilson 1998 American English
6371 The Mysterious Island Jules Verne 1874 French French
16416 Nutcracker E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 German
17010 To Sing With The Angels Maurice Hindus American English
6246 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 2017 Irish English
8538 Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst 2024 Unknown English
16440 The Power Of The Dog Thomas Savage 1967 American English
2230 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson 2007 American English
308 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
5724 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre 2003 British English
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
17010 The Tales Of Beedle The Bard J. K. Rowling 2008 British English
1752 Changing Places David Lodge 1975 British English
2896 Something Happened Joseph Heller 1974 American English
16412 The Fortunate Pilgrim Mario Puzo 1965 American English
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 2 Hayao Miyazaki 1983 Japanese Japanese
9060 Good Material Dolly Alderton 2024 British English
1927 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
17010 The Lost Children Of Wilder Nina Bernstein 2001 American English
14901 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
3094 Diary Of A Mad Old Man Junichiro Tanizaki 1961 Japanese Japanese
17010 Naruto, Vol. 1 Masashi Kishimoto 1999 Japanese Japanese
1034 The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston 1976 American English
13034 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 American English
17010 Time And Narrative, Volume 3 Paul Ricoeur 1985 French French
17010 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
11818 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
17010 Run Towards The Danger Sarah Polley 2022 Canadian English
17010 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
474 Embers Sandor Marai 1942 Hungarian Hungarian
17010 Austen Years Cohen, Rachel 2020 American English
17010 Lighter Than My Shadow Katie Green 2013 British English
14165 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
478 Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 1913 French French
17010 Dear Medusa Olivia A. Cole 2023 American English
13206 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
17010 Diary Chuck Palahniuk 2003 American English
17010 Thornhedge T. Kingfisher 2023 Unknown English
17010 Akira, Vol. 1 Katsuhiro Otomo 1984 Japanese Japanese
5881 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1923 British English
17010 A Chance Meeting Cohen, Rachel 2004 American English
16443 Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 British English
1248 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906 Swedish Swedish
7660 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
17010 Sing Backwards And Weep Mark Lanegan 2020 American English
17010 The Courage To Be Disliked Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga 2013 Japanese Japanese
9262 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
6072 The Power Of The Dog Don Winslow 2005 American English
376 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 1820 British English
17010 The Yiddish Policeman's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
551 The Lady with the Dog Anton Chekhov 1899 Russian Russian
17010 The Lions Of Lucerne Brad Thor 2002 American English
2441 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
586 The Third Man Graham Greene 1949 British English
4285 Finite And Infinite Games James P. Carse 1986 American English
4279 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner 1930 American English
17010 The Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum 1990 American English
17010 Theories Of Everything John D. Barrow 1991 British English
17010 A Girl Is A Body Of Water Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 2020 Ugandan English
5259 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
17010 Supergirl Tom King 2021 American English
14901 I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett 2010 British English
2766 Unkempt Thoughts Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 1950 Polish Polish
17010 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17010 The E Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber 1995 American English
17010 Close Your Eyes And Count To 10 Lisa Unger American Unknown
17010 The Laws Of Human Nature Robert Greene 2018 American English
3262 Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
4888 The Emissary Yoko Tawada 2014 Japanese Japanese
17010 Is There A Dog In This Book? Viviane Schwarz 2014 British English
17010 The Dalemark Quartet Diana Wynne Jones 1993 British English
3585 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
16523 Curtain Agatha Christie 1975 British English
9054 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
17010 Gates Of Fire Steven Pressfield 1998 American English
17010 The Square Of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson 2023 British English
17010 Divergent Veronica Roth 2011 American English
17010 Interior Chinatown Charles Yu 2020 American English
16441 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
14901 Gai Jin James Clavell 1993 American English
16442 Playing And Reality Donald Winnicott 1971 British English
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 3 Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Japanese Japanese
3797 A Imortalidade Milan Kundera 1990 Czech Czech
652 Black Boy Richard Wright 1945 American English
2991 Staying On Paul Scott 1977 British English
14901 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
17010 The Lake Of Lost Girls Katherine Greene Unknown Unknown
17010 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
17010 Table For Two Amor Towles 2024 American English
1137 The Unwomanly Face Of War Svetlana Alexievich 1985 Russian Russian