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
4410 The Pigeon Patrick Suskind 1987 German German
16608 The Last Leaf O. Henry 1907 American English
8492 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
14985 A Nation under Our Feet Steven Hahn 2003 American English
4188 Age of Ambition Evan Osnos 2014 American English
17158 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
773 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
3068 Tintin In Tibet Hergé 1960 Belgian French
7892 Shutter Island Dennis Lehane 2003 American English
17158 Reverend Insanity Gu Zhen Re 2015 Chinese Chinese
16611 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
14985 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
17158 The Naturals Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2013 American English
6240 The Decagon House Murders Yukito Ayatsuji 1987 Japanese Japanese
14985 Fairy Tale Stephen King 2023 American English
17158 Zpověď Maxe Tivoliho Andrew Sean Greer 2004 American English
17158 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
11567 The Imitation Of Christ Thomas à Kempis 1418 German Latin
969 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger 1920 German German
7679 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021 American English
8210 The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 2006 British English
17158 Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet Jamie Ford 2009 American English
3216 The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna 1975 Finnish Finnish
14985 The Fiery Trial Eric Foner 2010 American English
17158 Desolation Island Patrick O'Brian 1978 British English
8227 Unsouled Will Wight 2016 American English
4659 The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear Walter Moers 1999 German German
14944 Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 American English
17158 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
17158 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
8770 An Introduction To Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1934 Japanese English
16618 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
1268 A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin 1953 American English
17158 Little Blue Encyclopedia Plante, Hazel Jane 2019 Unknown English
16622 They Went On Together Robert Nathan 1941 American English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
17158 Being A Green Mother Piers Anthony 1987 American English
4507 Truman David McCullough 1992 American English
1971 Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 1998 American English
17158 The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle Avi 1990 American English
1357 I and Thou Martin Buber 1923 Austrian German
17158 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
3157 The Honorary Consul Graham Greene 1973 British English
17158 Good Girl, Bad Blood Holly Jackson 2020 British English
17158 Locke & Key Slipcase Set Joe Hill 2014 American English
3291 On Being And Essence Thomas Aquinas 1256 Italian Latin
3156 The Castafiore Emerald Hergé 1963 Belgian French
4892 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
14985 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah 2021 American English
10626 The Dog That Saw God Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
10060 In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 American English
1271 Extinction Thomas Bernhard 1986 Austrian German
1687 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
14832 The True Believer Eric Hoffer 1951 American English
525 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
12870 Factfulness Hans Rosling 2018 Swedish English
4580 Papillon Henri Charrière 1969 French French
2883 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
17158 The Will Of The Many James Islington 2023 Australian English
16620 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
6157 The God Of The Woods Liz Moore 2024 Unknown English
5041 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
17158 Red Rising Saga Pierce Brown 2014 American English
17158 The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood 2015 British English
17158 The Confusion Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
14985 Impossible Creatures Katherine Rundell 2023 British English
17158 The Last Full Measure Jeff Shaara 1998 American English
7799 The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi 2009 American English
1177 Phèdre Jean Racine 1677 French French
2235 Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 British English
6326 The New Kings Of Nonfiction Ira Glass 2007 American English
9528 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Of Faeries Heather Fawcett 2023 Canadian English
4684 The Complete Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
14232 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan 2017 American English
17158 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
3551 The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 1952 Italian Italian
14985 Sandwich Catherine Newman 2024 Unknown English
16631 La Femme Rompue / L'âge De Discrétion / Monologue Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
3829 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
17158 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English
17158 The System Of The World Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
885 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz 2002 Israeli Hebrew
16624 Le K Dino Buzzati 1967 Italian
17158 All Tomorrows C. M. Kosemen 2006 Turkish English
5649 The Bear William Faulkner 1942 American English
14985 The Dragonbone Chair Tad Williams 1988 American English
17158 Tress Of The Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson 2023 American English
17158 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17158 The Secret Hours Mick Herron 2023 British English
10888 My Friends Fredrik Backman 2025 Unknown English
17158 Das Flüstern Der Feigenbäume Elif Shafak 2023 Turkish German
16626 Morgenlandfahrt Hermann Hesse 1932 Swiss German
7161 All The Names José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Portuguese
9907 Aru Shah And The End Of Time Roshani Chokshi 2018 American English
16630 The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
17158 Five Decembers James Kestrel 2021 American English
13506 Straight Man Richard Russo 1997 American English
2484 The Cider House Rules John Irving 1985 American English
17158 The Hinge Factor Erik Durschmied 1999 Unknown English
7193 O Quinze Rachel de Queiroz 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
2591 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway 1989 British English
908 The Life of a Good-For-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff 1826 German German
1359 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
17158 Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel 1990 American English
6373 The Body Stephen King 1982 American English
17158 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
1888 A Dark Adapted Eye Barbara Vine 1986 British English
8831 Hiroshima Notes Kenzaburō Ōe 1965 Japanese Japanese
3602 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
2867 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
8971 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
2517 L.A. Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
17158 The Shortest Day Cooper, Susan 2019 British English
17158 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
2556 Dangling Man Saul Bellow 1944 American English
14985 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
9261 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
16629 Badjelly The Witch Spike Milligan 1973 New Zealander English
497 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers 1933 British English