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
17010 The Spy In Moscow Station Eric Haseltine 2019 Unknown English
14901 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
17010 Akira, Vol. 3 Katsuhiro Otomo 1985 Japanese Japanese
17010 Piercing Ryū Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17010 Zero Charles Seife 2000 American English
11540 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
17010 These Precious Days Ann Patchett 2021 American English
17010 Never Sleep Fred Van Lente American English
2861 The Story Of The Lost Child Elena Ferrante 2014 Italian Italian
8929 Wolf in White Van John Darnielle 2014 American English
14901 Deception Point Dan Brown 2001 American English
17010 The Golden Spruce John Vaillant 2005 Canadian English
14901 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 2023 American English
2404 The Fear Of Freedom Erich Fromm 1941 German English
17010 I Was Told There'd Be Cake Sloane Crosley 2008 American English
10425 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
17010 The Stone Flower Alan Scholefield 1983 South African English
17010 The Devil And The Dark Water Stuart Turton 2020 British English
5398 Melancholy Jon Fosse 1995 Norwegian Norwegian
9789 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
7719 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
5580 Caste Isabel Wilkerson 2020 American English
13464 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
2042 The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 1963 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya 2000 Russian Russian
17010 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
14769 Anatomy Of Criticism Northrop Frye 1957 Canadian English
1713 The Clay Machine-gun Victor Pelevin 1996 Russian Russian
17010 The Rose Code Kate Quinn 2021 American English
17010 To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 Tad Williams 1993 American English
17010 Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell 2007 American English
14165 Permutation City Greg Egan 1994 Australian English
14901 Before The Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi 2015 Japanese Japanese
17010 Sarah Kane Sarah Kane 2001 British English
5945 Collected Stories Gabriel García Márquez 1996 Colombian Spanish
14901 Native Guard Natasha Trethewey 2006 American English
16528 The Undiscovered Self C.G. Jung 1957 Swiss German
7668 Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 American English
17010 Provinces Of Night William Gay 2000 American English
13463 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
17010 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
11171 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
10837 City Of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett 2014 American English
14165 Under A White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert 2021 American English
17010 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Spirituality Of Imperfection Ernest Kurtz 1992 American English
964 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French French
10612 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
17010 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
2385 Beyond Sleep W.F. Hermans 1966 Dutch Dutch
6845 Chelsea Girls Eileen Myles 1994 American English
867 Heidi Johanna Spyri 1881 Swiss German
779 Maxims François duc de La Rochefoucauld 1665 French French
1287 Odessa Stories Isaac Babel 1923 Ukrainian Russian
16539 Droga donikąd Józef Mackiewicz 1955 Polish Polish
8211 Unsouled Will Wight 2016 American English
2671 Deep Water Patricia Highsmith 1957 American English
17010 The Viceroy Of Ouidah Bruce Chatwin 1980 British English
3236 The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972 American English
14901 Memory Lois McMaster Bujold 1996 American English
17010 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English
5985 The Green Road Anne Enright 2015 Irish English
14901 Pandora's Jar Natalie Haynes 2020 British English
17010 The Sculptor Scott McCloud 2015 American English
17010 Waiting For Eden Elliot Ackerman 2018 American English
17010 Moonflower Murders Anthony Horowitz 2020 British English
7672 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
17010 How Did You Get This Number Sloane Crosley 2010 American English
12192 The Victim Saul Bellow 1947 American English
14901 Let's Talk About Love Carl Wilson 2007 Canadian English
14901 The Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean 2010 American English
1344 Story of the Eye Georges Bataille 1928 French French
17010 Cinnamon Gardens Shyam Selvadurai 1998 Sri Lankan English
17010 Living Untethered Michael A. Singer 2022 American English
17010 The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell 1977 American English
6206 The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey 1975 American English
17010 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17010 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17010 Harsh Cry Of The Heron Lian Hearn 2006 Japanese English
17010 Akira, Vol. 4 Katsuhiro Otomo 1990 Japanese Japanese
17010 Astro City, Vol. 1 Kurt Busiek 1996 American English
2483 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann 2005 German German
8153 One Day In December Josie Silver 2018 British English
17010 The Waste Lands Stephen King 1991 American English
17010 Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan 2016 Unknown English
17010 Von Hier Bis Zum Anfang Chris Whitaker 2021 British English
14901 The Dark Tower Stephen King 1982 American English
17010 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult 2016 American English
4723 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
17010 Listen For The Lie Amy Tintera 2023 American English
2388 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos 1989 American English
16540 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
17010 Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022 American English
17010 Le Grand Cahier Agota Kristof 1986 French French
17010 Hurricane Girl Marcy Dermansky 2022 American English
17010 The Thirst For Annihilation Nick Land 1992 British English
1322 A Judgement In Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 British English
17010 Provenance Ann Leckie 2017 American English
17010 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
16536 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
1291 Parzival Wolfram Eschenbach 1200 German Middle high german
17010 The Story Of A New Name Elena Ferrante 2012 Italian Italian
16534 The Iliad Of Homer Richmond Lattimore -762 Greek Ancient greek
17010 This Book Is Full Of Spiders David Wong 2012 American English
17010 Explaining Social Behavior Jon Elster 2007 Norwegian English
16537 The Pilgrim's Regress C. S. Lewis 1933 British English
14029 String Theory David Foster Wallace 2016 American English
17010 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
3891 Zoo Station Christiane V. Felscherinow 1978 German German
2639 The Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
17010 Zero At The Bone Bryce Marshall 1994 Unknown English
2154 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska 1925 American English
17010 When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson 2008 British English
10551 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
900 Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954 British English
17010 So Sad Today Melissa Broder 2016 American English
17010 Eros The Bittersweet Anne Carson 1986 Canadian English
17010 Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher 2000 British English
17010 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown
16546 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish