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
4798 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
17010 Stone Of Farewell Tad Williams 1990 American English
1497 A King Alone Jean Giono 1947 French French
2565 Poesías Completas Antonio Machado 1940 Spanish Spanish
14860 Double Or Nothing Raymond Federman 1971 American English
1525 A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1945 British English
17010 Abandon Blake Crouch 2009 American English
1118 The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus 1983 Belgian Dutch
17010 Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel 1990 American English
10260 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
14858 The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder 1940 American English
17010 Screenplay Syd Field 1979 American English
2772 Gedichte Walther von der Vogelweide 1200 German Middle high german
17010 West With Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 2021 Unknown English
7989 Play Their Hearts Out George Dohrmann 2010 American English
17010 Green Political Thought Andrew P. Dobson 1990 British English
14029 Shoe Dog Phil Knight 2016 American English
2955 Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1948 Italian Italian
1737 A Fatal Inversion Barbara Vine 1987 British English
17010 Naoko Keigo Higashino 1998 Japanese Japanese
17010 All In Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2015 American English
17010 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
5980 Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler 1984 American English
1682 Train Dreams Denis Johnson 2002 American English
1643 The Pledge Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1958 Swiss German
5729 One Of Us Asne Seierstad 2013 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
17010 Between Two Kingdoms Suleika Jaouad 2021 Unknown English
2316 The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft 1941 American English
10086 The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett 1999 British English
17010 God Is Love Pope Benedict XVI 2005 German Latin
17010 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17010 To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 Tad Williams 1993 American English
14901 Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan 2012 American English
17010 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
2516 Waiting For God Simone Weil 1950 French French
1888 Annie John Jamaica Kincaid 1985 Antiguan English
16518 We Can Build You Philip K. Dick 1972 American English
4745 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Chogyam Trungpa 1973 Multiple English
503 Pamela Samuel Richardson 1740 British English
16525 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
14901 A Swim In A Pond In The Rain George Saunders 2021 American English
17010 Munich Robert Harris 2017 British English
16520 The Collected Tales Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
5472 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
3255 The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger 1997 American English
17010 Wild Robot Peter Brown 2016 American English
3077 Diane Arbus Marvin Israel, Doon Arbus 1972 American English
17010 Objectivity And Cultural Divergence Stuart C. Brown 1984 Unknown Unknown
17010 As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow Zoulfa Katouh 2022 Unknown English
5720 In The Presence Of Absence Mahmoud Darwish 2006 Palestinian Arabic
17010 Bad Blood Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2016 Unknown English
14767 If Rudyard Kipling 1910 British English
17010 Claws Of The Cat Susan Spann 2013 American English
16517 100 Selected Poems E. E. Cummings 1954 American English
14901 Impossible Creatures Katherine Rundell 2023 British English
14901 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 2002 British English
14165 She Who Became The Sun Shelley Parker-Chan 2021 Australian English
17010 Akira, Vol. 2 Katsuhiro Otomo 1984 Japanese Japanese
14861 Adrift On The Nile Naguib Mahfouz 1966 Egyptian Arabic
3203 Briefing For A Descent Into Hell Doris May Lessing 1971 British English
2773 Helmbrecht Wernher der Gartenaere 1250 German Middle high german
4583 Columbine Dave Cullen 2009 American English
5330 Days Without End Sebastian Barry 2016 Irish English
16519 Borges On Writing Jorge Luis Borges 1973 Argentinian Spanish
1678 The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 1952 American English
17010 La Bombe Alcante 2020 Unknown French
17010 O Elefante Desaparece Haruki Murakami 1993 Japanese
16498 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
9703 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
17010 Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly American English
17010 The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog Bruce D. Perry, Danny Campbell, Maia Szalavita 2006 American English
17010 The Tower Of The Swallow Andrzej Sapkowski 1997 Polish
17010 Bad Summer People Robert Rosenblum Unknown Unknown
17010 The Concise 48 Laws Of Power Robert Greene 2002 American English
10846 Lost In Translation Eva Hoffman 1989 Canadian English
14901 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
16531 Benjamin Blake Edison Marshall 1941 American English
11584 The Complete Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 2005 American English
6564 Phenomenology Of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 French French
17010 The Patron Saint Of Liars Ann Patchett 1992 American English
3129 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem 2003 American English
10069 Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb 1995 American English
16528 The Undiscovered Self C.G. Jung 1957 Swiss German
2463 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 British English
17010 The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya 2000 Russian Russian
2042 The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 1963 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 The Day After Tomorrow Allan Folsom 2004 American English
17010 Provinces Of Night William Gay 2000 American English
7719 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
14769 Anatomy Of Criticism Northrop Frye 1957 Canadian English
17010 I Was Told There'd Be Cake Sloane Crosley 2008 American English
17010 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
17010 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
14901 Deception Point Dan Brown 2001 American English
16533 Slaughter House Five Ryan North 1969 Unknown Unknown
17010 Never Sleep Fred Van Lente American English
17010 Zero Charles Seife 2000 American English
17010 The Shortest Day Cooper, Susan 2019 British English
17010 Ajin Gamon Sakurai, Tsuina Miura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17010 The Rose Code Kate Quinn 2021 American English
11540 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
3030 Heavy Weather P. G. Wodehouse 1933 British English
17010 Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell 2007 American English
1839 Mysteries Knut Hamsun 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
16530 Setting Free The Bears John Irving 1968 American English
14165 Permutation City Greg Egan 1994 Australian English
10164 I’m Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy 2022 American English
17010 The Stone Flower Alan Scholefield 1983 South African English
14165 Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin 1987 British English
14901 Native Guard Natasha Trethewey 2006 American English
17010 Piercing Ryū Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
14901 Before The Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2015 Japanese Japanese
7614 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
17010 Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors Franz Kafka German German
17010 My Friend Dahmer Derf Backderf 2012 American English
14901 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
17010 Girl In Translation Jean Kwok 2010 American English
17010 The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish