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
17125 Close To Death Anthony Horowitz 2024 British English
2592 The Gods Of Pegana Lord Dunsany 1905 Irish English
16579 Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 Scottish English
14827 Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta 1016 Indian Sanskrit
17125 Babysitter Joyce Carol Oates 2022 American English
16580 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
17125 Gone For Soldiers Jeff Shaara 2000 American English
17125 Unlimited Memory Kevin Horsley 2014 Unknown English
14932 Miss Mac Intosh, My Darling Marguerite Young 1965 American English
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
17125 The Bonehunters Steven Erikson 2006 Canadian English
11406 Women Who Run With The Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1992 American English
17125 Humans Brandon Stanton 2020 American English
14984 The Player Of Games Iain Banks 1988 Scottish English
2804 Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 2015 American English
17125 On A Pale Horse Piers Anthony 1983 American English
736 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald 1859 British English
17125 The Comfort Crisis Michael Easter 2021 American English
17125 The Disaster Artist Greg Sestero 2013 American English
10211 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
17125 Days Gone Bye Robert Kirkman 2004 American English
17125 The Time Of Contempt Andrzej Sapkowski 1995 Polish Polish
17125 Your Body Knows The Answer David I. Rome 2014 American English
17125 Helen Of Troy Margaret George 2006 American English
3049 A World for Julius Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1970 Peruvian Spanish
8428 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 1997 American English
14829 Troubles J. G. Farrell 1970 British English
17125 Great Circle Maggie Shipstead 2021 American English
16578 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
17125 Retablos Mireya Solís 2018 Unknown Unknown
17125 Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher 2014 American English
3385 Wandering On The Way Zhuangzi, Victor H. Mair -369 Chinese Classical chinese
17125 Awakening The Dreamer Philip M. M. Bromberg 2006 American English
14984 Make Your Bed William H. McRaven 2017 American English
16589 Call The New World John Jennings 1941 Unknown Unknown
16586 The Last Leaf O. Henry 1907 American English
8209 The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 2006 British English
17125 Saga, Volume 4 Brian K. Vaughan 2014 American English
2553 Disobedience Alberto Moravia 1948 Italian Italian
16588 Butcher's Crossing John Williams 1960 American English
4792 The Birth Of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche 1872 German German
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
14232 Quicksilver Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
16585 3 By Flannery O'connor Flannery O'Connor 1964 American English
11567 The Imitation Of Christ Thomas à Kempis 1418 German Latin
3245 Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1849 American English
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
6146 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
733 Arrow of God Chinua Achebe 1964 Nigerian English
17125 With A Tangled Skein Piers Anthony 1985 American English
13582 The Spire William Golding 1964 British English
16593 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
2108 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1987 British English
17125 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
773 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
17125 The Naturals Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2013 American English
17125 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
3067 Tintin In Tibet Hergé 1960 Belgian French
14984 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
17125 Once Upon A Broken Heart Stephanie Garber 2021 American English
7678 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021 American English
14818 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
17125 De Zondvloed Jeroen Brouwers 1988 Dutch Dutch
14984 The Body Yasuo Yuasa 1987 Japanese Japanese
4409 The Pigeon Patrick Suskind 1987 German German
16591 Post Captain Patrick O'Brian 1972 British English
5979 The Boys From Brazil Ira Levin 1976 American English
17125 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
6239 The Decagon House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji 1987 Japanese Japanese
9261 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
7891 Shutter Island Dennis Lehane 2003 American English
14984 Fairy Tale Stephen King 2023 American English
4738 At Play in the Fields of the Lord Peter Matthiessen 1965 American English
969 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger 1920 German German
8417 The Way Of A Serpent Torgny Lindgren 1982 Swedish Swedish
1075 The Kon-Tiki Expedition Thor Heyerdahl 1948 Norwegian Norwegian
16590 David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 Scottish English
17125 Todos Os Contos Clarice Lispector 2015 Brazilian Portuguese
2576 The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 Anaïs Nin 1966 French English
11566 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
17125 Earth Girl Janet Edwards Australian English
8491 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
14984 Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Lori Gottlieb 2019 American English
5895 A Confession Leo Tolstoy 1882 Russian Russian
17125 Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet Jamie Ford 2009 American English
14984 Long Bright River Liz Moore 2020 American English
16584 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
2956 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
17125 The Old Lion Jeff Shaara 2023 American English
17125 Reverend Insanity Gu Zhen Re 2015 Chinese Chinese
4187 Age of Ambition Evan Osnos 2014 American English
14984 A Nation under Our Feet Steven Hahn 2003 American English
17125 None Of This Is True Lisa Jewell 2023 British English
2024 The Chosen Chaim Potok 1967 American English
1687 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
17125 Being A Green Mother Piers Anthony 1987 American English
14984 The Fiery Trial Eric Foner 2010 American English
17125 Desolation Island Patrick O'Brian 1978 British English
3156 The Honorary Consul Graham Greene 1973 British English
17125 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
10057 In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 American English
1971 Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 1998 American English
1268 A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin 1953 American English
7798 The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi 2009 American English
14830 The True Believer Eric Hoffer 1951 American English
16596 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
17125 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
16594 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
17125 All Tomorrows C. M. Kosemen 2006 Turkish English
2234 Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 British English
17125 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
14232 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan 2017 American English
4891 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
4579 Papillon Henri Charrière 1969 French French
17125 The Will Of The Many James Islington 2023 Australian English
3157 The Castafiore Emerald Hergé 1963 Belgian French
525 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
16598 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
17125 Locke & Key Slipcase Set Joe Hill 2014 American English
2972 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English