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
3610 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
1442 Little House In The Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
375 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
946 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
453 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 1978 British English
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French
3612 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
912 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English
14629 Parnassus On Wheels Christopher Morley 1917 American English
671 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
657 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
1939 From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler EL Konigsburg 1967 American English
442 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
1798 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
3101 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams 1987 British English
253 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe 1929 American English
949 Richard III William Shakespeare 1592 British English
813 Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell 1851 British English
354 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1998 Chilean Spanish
678 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
118 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
207 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
2094 From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 British English
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
1107 Othello William Shakespeare 1603 British English
479 Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 1943 British English
1365 The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton 1969 American English
1345 Sandman Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
892 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
1336 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 American English
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
441 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
1618 Good-Bye to All That Robert Graves 1929 British English
240 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
632 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
704 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 1958 American English
699 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin 1978 American English
1007 Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2002 British English
323 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 1848 German German
202 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 Italian Italian
2534 Clear Light of Day Anita Desai 1980 Indian English
397 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
1771 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 American English
90 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German German
1120 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 1988 British English
342 The Sonnets William Shakespeare 1609 British English
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
553 The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1903 American English
1555 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 American English
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
14730 Restaurant At The End Of The Universe Douglas Adams 1980 British English
13314 Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1902 British English
343 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 British English
3482 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
666 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 American English
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
175 Metamorphoses Ovid 8 Roman Latin
560 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 American English
244 Nausea Jean Paul Sartre 1938 French French
557 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
908 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
3143 All the President's Men Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein 1974 American English
711 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
325 Solaris Stanislaw Lem 1961 Polish Polish
630 Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis 1899 Brazilian Portuguese
189 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
795 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 French French
14901 A Clash Of Kings George R. R. Martin 1998 American English
2181 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
1207 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 American English
125 If This Is a Man Primo Levi 1947 Italian Italian
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
285 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 British English
16604 So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, No. 4) Douglas Adams 1984 British English
781 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
14836 Life, The Universe And Everything Douglas Adams 1982 British English
255 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
406 The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus 1942 French French
5240 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
1647 Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood 1988 Canadian English
986 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 American English
684 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
783 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
1653 O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1913 American English
2337 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 Irish English
568 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 British English
17008 The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul Douglas Adams 1988 British English
2194 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama 1995 American English
802 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
14901 A Feast For Crows George R. R. Martin 2005 American English
12523 Histoire de Babar Jean de Brunhoff 1931 French French
571 And Quiet Flows The Don Mikhail Sholokhov 1928 Russian Russian
14901 A Dance With Dragons George R. R. Martin 2011 American English
1128 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
6141 The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet David Mitchell 2010 British English
9053 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 American English
801 Romance of the Three Kingdoms Guanzhong Luo 1400 Chinese Chinese
9053 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
799 The Loved One Evelyn Waugh 1948 British English
511 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 German German
1435 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 British English
1039 Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger 1961 American English
3870 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Hunter S. Thompson 1973 American English
177 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Austrian German
440 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
769 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
8147 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
574 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 American English
1780 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 2000 American English
214 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 1940 British German
8486 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
1722 1Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
2465 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
263 The Epic Of Gilgamesh Unknown -2100 Multiple Akkadian
14165 A Year in Provence Peter Mayle 1989 British English
1145 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1839 British English
1494 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
5351 The Portable Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker 1944 American English
2973 Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 American English