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
12468 The Last Boy Jane Leavy 2010 American English
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 7 Hayao Miyazaki 1995 Japanese Japanese
14232 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry, Mónica Faerna 2005 British English
17122 Fried Chicken Castañeda Jill Stauffer American Unknown
1720 The Lady In The Lake Raymond Chandler 1943 American English
2279 Poems of Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale 1925 Italian Italian
17122 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
7054 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
17122 Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi 2011 American English
11002 In The Lake Of The Woods Tim O'Brien 1994 American English
971 The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch 1992 Dutch Dutch
17122 The Sandman, Vol. 5 Neil Gaiman 1993 British English
16568 Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling 1893 British English
17122 Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2000 American English
14984 Digger, Vols.1-6 Ursula Vernon 2005 American English
2290 Arcadia Tom Stoppard 1993 British English
14824 Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
1241 The Life Before Us Romain Gary 1975 French French
1628 Romance Of Walewein Penninc, Pieter Vostaert 1260 Dutch Middle dutch
14232 The Clash of Civilizations Samuel P. Huntington 1996 American English
10076 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
17122 With The End In Mind Kathryn Mannix 2017 British English
9690 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
16669 Terms Of Endearment Larry McMurtry 1975 American English
14984 Doctor Sleep Stephen King 2013 American English
12225 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
186 Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan 1954 French French
605 Claudine Colette 1900 French French
14122 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
2531 Day Of The Owl Leonardo Sciascia 1961 Italian Italian
14984 The Wright Brothers David McCullough 2015 American English
2599 Almost Transparent Blue Ryū Murakami 1976 Japanese Japanese
695 Boys Alive Pier Paolo Pasolini 1955 Italian Italian
14984 A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Michael Dorris 1987 American English
4888 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
4654 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
14984 The Vorrh Brian Catling 2012 British English
17122 Forty Stories Donald Barthelme 1981 American English
7963 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
14984 Liar's Poker Michael M. Lewis 1989 American English
6805 O Tempo E O Vento Erico Verissimo 1949 Brazilian Portuguese
17122 The Searcher Tana French 2020 Irish English
11403 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
2965 In A Dark Wood Wandering Hella S. Haasse 1949 Dutch Dutch
17122 City Of Illusion Vardis Fisher American English
16567 House On The Hill Cesare Pavese 1948 Italian Italian
4406 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Yukio Mishima 1963 Japanese Japanese
4504 Different Seasons Stephen King 1982 American English
17122 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
626 Promise at Dawn Romain Gary 1960 French French
17122 Stolen Thoughts Tim Tigner 2015 Unknown English
14939 Man and His Symbols Carl Jung 1964 Swiss English
17122 And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks William S. Burroughs 2008 American English
17122 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
14156 The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen 1920 British English
2016 The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810 British English
17122 Bearing An Hourglass Piers Anthony 1984 American English
3386 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 1988 Indian English
2719 Richard Ii William Shakespeare 1595 British English
17122 We Were Soldiers Once...And Young Harold G. Moore 1992 American English
16574 Zama Antonio di Benedetto 1956 Argentinian Spanish
16575 Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1902 British English
5456 Ballad of the Salt Sea Hugo Pratt 1967 Italian Italian
17122 Panna Nikt Tomek Tryzna 1994 Polish Polish
7670 Cinder Marissa Meyer 2012 American English
8526 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
2166 Morvern Callar Alan Warner 1995 Scottish English
903 Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991 Chinese English
3204 Fever Pitch Nick Hornby 1992 British English
17122 The Last Word Elly Griffiths 2024 British English
17122 Grasping Evil I’m Ink Unknown Unknown
10302 Requiem Shizuko Gō 1986 Japanese Japanese
17122 The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Suzanne Collins 2020 American English
4671 The Spiritual Teaching Of Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi 1972 Indian Tamil
17122 Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier 2006 American English
1867 The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1887 British English
17122 Zen In The Art Of Writing Ray Bradbury 1990 American English
16573 The Wisdom Of Life And Counsels And Maxims Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
17122 This Must Be The Place Maggie O'Farrell 2016 British English
17122 The Courtier And The Heretic Matthew Stewart 2006 American English
13236 The Burning God R. F. Kuang 2020 American English
16571 The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
13587 Spring Snow Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
2479 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
17122 The Book Of Lies Brad Meltzer 2008 American English
17122 The Lords Of Discipline Pat Conroy 1980 American English
17122 Plum Island Nelson DeMille 1997 American English
17122 The Children Of Húrin J. R. R. Tolkien 2007 British English
17122 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
11190 Rules Of Civility Amor Towles 2011 American English
6374 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
17122 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell 2017 British English
1205 The Enchanted Wanderer Nikolai Leskov 1873 Russian Russian
1659 The Americans Robert Frank 1959 American English
17122 Indignation Philip Roth 2008 American English
4664 Building Stories Chris Ware 2012 American English
17122 Babysitter Joyce Carol Oates 2022 American English
6276 Citizens Simon Schama 1989 British English
14829 Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta 1016 Indian Sanskrit
16582 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16576 Martians, Go Home Fredric Brown 1955 American English
14984 The Player Of Games Iain Banks 1988 Scottish English
1491 Presumed Innocent Scott Turow 1987 American English
17122 Retablos Mireya Solís 2018 Unknown Unknown
16579 Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 Scottish English
17122 Close To Death Anthony Horowitz 2024 British English
2686 Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis 1951 British English
17122 Ay, William / Oh William! Elizabeth Strout 2021 American English
17122 If We Were Villains M. L. Rio 2017 American English
8427 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 1997 American English
17122 Trillion Year Spree Brian Aldiss 1986 British English
3049 A World for Julius Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1970 Peruvian Spanish
17122 Helen Of Troy Margaret George 2006 American English
895 The Ravishing of Lol Stein Marguerite Duras 1964 French French
17122 Will Eisner's New York Will Eisner 2006 American English
17122 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
13565 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 American English
17122 A Sunlit Absence Martin Laird 2011 American English
17122 The Time Of Contempt Andrzej Sapkowski 1995 Polish Polish
14930 Miss Mac Intosh, My Darling Marguerite Young 1965 American English