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
1697 That Awful Mess On Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda 1957 Italian Italian
17010 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
5359 White Jazz James Ellroy 1992 American English
17010 The Little Bandits Michael Henry 2025 Australian English
590 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 British English
17010 Moshi Moshi Banana Yoshimoto 2010 Japanese Japanese
8711 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
17010 Table For Two Amor Towles 2024 American English
8648 The Bridge Hart Crane 1930 American English
3115 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
1409 No Exit Jean Paul Sartre 1944 French French
17010 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17010 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
1137 The Unwomanly Face Of War Svetlana Alexievich 1985 Russian Russian
515 Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari 1550 Italian Italian
2767 The Book Of Divine Consolation Meister Eckhart 1308 German Middle high german
14901 The Dead Cat Tail Assassins P. Djèlí Clark 2024 American English
16445 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose 1954 American English
960 The Gift Vladimir Nabokov 1938 Russian Russian
5281 Revenge Yōko Ogawa 1998 Japanese Japanese
319 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes 1936 British English
17010 The Anatomy Of Genres John Truby 2022 American English
16446 The World Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
2991 Staying On Paul Scott 1977 British English
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 4 Hayao Miyazaki 1990 Japanese Japanese
1009 Invitation To A Beheading Vladimir Nabokov 1935 American Russian
14901 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
17010 The Lake Of Lost Girls Katherine Greene Unknown Unknown
14901 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
17010 The Benevolent Society Of Ill Mannered Ladies Alison Goodman 2023 Unknown English
11049 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
16448 The Critique Of Aesthetic Judgement Immanuel Kant 1790 German German
17010 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
14901 The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo 2019 Malaysian English
17010 Digital Fortress Dan Brown 1998 American English
12451 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
16449 Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels Simone de Beauvoir 1946 French French
8551 Ghost Wars Steve Coll 2004 American English
2715 The Sagas Of Icelanders Örnólfur Thorsson 1000 Icelandic Old norse
14901 Blood Of Elves Andrzej Sapkowski 1994 Polish Polish
10466 The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair Joël Dicker 2012 French French
860 The Solitudes Luis de Góngora 1613 Spanish Spanish
2768 The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17010 The Darwin Wars Andrew Brown 1999 British English
17010 Lectures On Imagination Paul Ricoeur Unknown French
2618 The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1881 American English
17010 The Ladies Road Guide To Utter Ruin Alison Goodman 2025 Australian English
17010 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17010 The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen 1986 Danish Danish
274 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French French
7655 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
17010 Armada Ernest Cline 2015 American English
17010 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
745 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga 1988 Zimbabwean English
8422 Heaven And Hell Jón Kalman Stefánsson 2007 Icelandic Icelandic
8405 The Green Mile Stephen King 1996 American English
17010 Tokyo Decadence Ryū Murakami Japanese Japanese
4438 Oblivion Héctor Abad Faciolince 2006 Colombian Spanish
6090 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 2017 Irish English
7551 There's Always This Year Hanif Abdurraqib 2024 American English
14901 Meadowland John Lewis-Stempel 2014 British English
2550 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
3462 The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen 1837 Danish Danish
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 5 Hayao Miyazaki 1994 Japanese Japanese
16450 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
1509 The Duke and I Julia Quinn 2000 American English
685 The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 1963 Peruvian Spanish
17010 The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August Claire North 2014 British English
17010 I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf Grant Snider 2020 American English
11292 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
17010 The Pleasure Dome Judith Liederman 1981 Unknown English
370 History of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
5104 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
17010 Hell And Back Craig Johnson 2022 American English
17010 Red Side Story Jasper Fforde 2024 British English
14901 Horse Geraldine Brooks 2022 Australian English
17010 The First Law Trilogy Joe Abercrombie 2006 British English
2911 The Woman In Black Susan Hill 1983 British English
14901 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
6670 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
17010 Gods And Generals Jeff Shaara 1996 American English
16451 Meno Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
1854 The Order of Things Michel Foucault 1966 French French
17010 Le Fou Noir Arrigo Boito Italian Unknown
1088 The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy 1889 Russian Russian
17010 Eldest Christopher Paolini 2005 American English
7145 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
17010 The Sandman, Vol. 5 Neil Gaiman 1993 British English
17010 Hekate Nikita Gill 2023 British English
186 Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan 1954 French French
17010 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
14059 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
14901 Digger, Vols.1-6 Ursula Vernon 2005 American English
17010 And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks William S. Burroughs 2008 American English
17010 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17010 Forty Stories Donald Barthelme 1981 American English
970 The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch 1992 Dutch Dutch
16452 Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling 1893 British English
1719 The Lady In The Lake Raymond Chandler 1943 American English
11287 When The Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka 2002 American English
14901 A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Michael Dorris 1987 American English
9072 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
14901 Exit Strategy Martha Wells 2018 American English
16453 House On The Hill Cesare Pavese 1948 Italian Italian
14738 Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
1626 Romance Of Walewein Penninc, Pieter Vostaert 1260 Dutch Middle dutch
9672 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
905 Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 1901 American English
2271 Poems of Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale 1925 Italian Italian
8044 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
4648 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
12198 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
2528 Day Of The Owl Leonardo Sciascia 1961 Italian Italian
16548 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
16454 Fanny By Gaslight Michael Sadleir 1940 British English
4881 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
2069 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 1994 American English
7043 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
14901 The Vorrh Brian Catling 2012 British English
10702 Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris 2022 Unknown English