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
1685 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
7782 The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi 2009 American English
6316 The New Kings Of Nonfiction Ira Glass 2007 American English
16484 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
17010 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
1966 Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 1998 American English
17010 Good Girl, Bad Blood Holly Jackson 2020 British English
775 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
525 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
4884 The Short Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1886 Russian Russian
2966 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
17010 The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle Avi 1990 American English
14901 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah 2021 American English
8754 An Introduction To Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1934 Japanese English
17010 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English
8956 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
16488 Badjelly The Witch Spike Milligan 1973 New Zealander English
6363 The Body Stephen King 1982 American English
8816 Hiroshima Notes Kenzaburō Ōe 1965 Japanese Japanese
14901 The Dragonbone Chair Tad Williams 1988 American English
16490 Morgenlandfahrt Hermann Hesse 1932 Swiss German
10858 My Friends Fredrik Backman 2025 Unknown English
17010 The Secret Hours Mick Herron 2023 British English
17010 The Hinge Factor Erik Durschmied 1999 Unknown English
1355 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
17010 Tell Me An Ending Jo Harkin 2022 Unknown English
17010 Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation To Imagination Donnel B. Stern 1997 American English
17010 Pitface Herman Brusselmans 1994 Belgian Dutch
17010 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17010 Ttyl Lauren Myracle 2004 American English
17010 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
8283 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
17010 I Swear I'll Make It Up To You Mishka Shubaly 2016 American English
1782 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841 American English
2860 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
17010 Women And Men Joseph McElroy 1987 American English
5403 Reflections In A Golden Eye Carson McCullers 1941 American English
7676 The Bear William Faulkner 1942 American English
7577 The Women Kristin Hannah 2024 American English
2553 Amok Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
1109 Get Shorty Elmore Leonard 1990 American English
2511 L.A. Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
17010 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
16486 Le K Dino Buzzati 1967 Italian
17010 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
14901 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
17010 Tress Of The Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson 2023 American English
17010 Never Finished David Goggins 2022 American English
2588 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway 1989 British English
17010 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
916 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951 British English
17010 Killer Instinct Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2014 American English
9243 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
17010 Catch .22 Diane L. Kowalyshyn Unknown Unknown
17010 The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ Philip Pullman 2010 British English
10535 Thief Of Time Terry Pratchett 2001 British English
17010 About A Boy Nick Hornby 1998 British English
17010 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
17010 Everyone Brave Is Forgiven Chris Cleave 2016 British English
17010 The System Of The World Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
497 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers 1933 British English
7179 O Quinze Rachel de Queiroz 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
907 The Life of a Good-For-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff 1826 German German
5022 The Sluts Dennis Cooper 2004 American English
9889 Aru Shah And The End Of Time Roshani Chokshi 2018 American English
3606 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 Belgian French
17010 Straight Man Richard Russo 1997 American English
13498 The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner 1976 American English
2478 The Cider House Rules John Irving 1985 American English
17010 Das Flüstern Der Feigenbäume Elif Shafak 2023 Turkish German
17010 Five Decembers James Kestrel 2021 American English
3598 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
915 Malice Aforethought Francis Iles 1931 British English
17010 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
3826 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
17010 Baptism Of Fire Andrzej Sapkowski 1996 Polish Polish
1887 A Dark Adapted Eye Barbara Vine 1986 British English
16489 La Femme Rompue / L'âge De Discrétion / Monologue Simone de Beauvoir 1967 French French
884 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz 2002 Israeli Hebrew
2552 Dangling Man Saul Bellow 1944 American English
8831 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
17010 Die Wise Stephen Jenkinson 2015 Canadian English
13890 The Siege Helen Dunmore 2001 British English
14858 The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder 1940 American English
14029 Shoe Dog Phil Knight 2016 American English
17010 Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel 1990 American English
17010 A Primate's Memoir Robert Sapolsky 2001 American English
17010 Stone Of Farewell Tad Williams 1990 American English
5021 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
17010 A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms George R. R. Martin 2015 American English
2772 Gedichte Walther von der Vogelweide 1200 German Middle high german
10086 The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett 1999 British English
2565 Poesías Completas Antonio Machado 1940 Spanish Spanish
14845 Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck 1935 American English
14901 William Cooper's Town Alan Taylor 1995 American English
17010 Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
4798 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
1118 The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus 1983 Belgian Dutch
17010 Naoko Keigo Higashino 1998 Japanese Japanese
7989 Play Their Hearts Out George Dohrmann 2010 American English
686 From Here to Eternity James Jones 1951 American English
2000 Baltasar and Blimunda José Saramago 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
17010 Havoc Christopher Bollen American Unknown
2165 Paris Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1869 French French
10425 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
17010 Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky 2010 American English
17010 The Hot Zone Richard Preston 1994 American English
17010 Skycastle Steve Krantz 1981 American English
17010 Recursion Blake Crouch 2019 American English
6292 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte 2024 American English
2316 The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft 1941 American English
1682 Train Dreams Denis Johnson 2002 American English
14901 Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson 2017 American English
2955 Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1948 Italian Italian
5729 One Of Us Asne Seierstad 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
1643 The Pledge Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1958 Swiss German
17010 Still Me Jojo Moyes 1998 British English
16492 Flowers For Algernon Short Story Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
17010 All In Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2015 American English
17010 West With Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 2021 Unknown English