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
14901 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
17010 Dreadnought Robert K. Massie 1991 American English
3141 A Simple Plan Scott Smith 1993 American English
2280 The History of the Siege of Lisbon José Saramago 1989 Portuguese Portuguese
17010 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
719 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
17010 Sadie Courtney Summers 2018 Canadian English
8155 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby 2005 British English
16545 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
17010 Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides 2001 American English
8821 Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger 2013 American English
1197 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
17010 The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum 1986 American English
9086 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
16541 To A God Unknown John Steinbeck 1933 American English
17010 La Preuve Agota Kristof 1988 French
6247 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
17010 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
17010 Alpha Jens Harder 2009 German German
17010 Tangerine Edward Bloor 1997 American English
17010 Akira, Vol. 5 Katsuhiro Otomo 1990 Japanese Japanese
16550 I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy Christine 1955 French French
1178 Living Henry Green 1929 British English
433 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 British English
1338 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1631 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
16543 De Witte Ernest Claes 1920 Belgian Dutch
10425 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
16551 The Sea And Poison Shūsaku Endō 1958 Japanese Japanese
16548 Lady Susan Jane Austen 1871 British English
6669 A Fraction Of The Whole Steve Toltz 2008 Australian English
17010 The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 American English
3287 The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
8777 Audition Ryū Murakami 1997 Japanese Japanese
6075 Dissolution C. J. Sansom 2003 British English
2428 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
17010 The Last Days Of The Incas Kim MacQuarrie 2007 Unknown English
17010 The Shaman's Mind Jonathan Hammond 2020 Unknown English
17010 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17010 The Magician Michael Scott 2008 Irish English
13994 The Power To Compete Hiroshi Mikitani, Ryoichi Mikitani 2014 Japanese English
17010 How To Dunk A Doughnut Len Fisher 2002 British English
1487 Beatrijs Unknown 1374 Dutch Middle dutch
14901 Rubicon Tom Holland 2003 British English
245 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy 1906 British English
17010 Black Snake Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys 2021 Unknown English
2707 Les Caractères Jean de La Bruyère 1688 French French
14901 The Day We Found The Universe Marcia Bartusiak 2009 American English
411 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1860 British English
17010 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
8924 The Rage Of Dragons Evan Winter 2019 Canadian English
879 Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
1342 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
1500 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
17010 Look Alive Out There Sloane Crosley 2018 American English
17010 City Of Illusion Vardis Fisher American English
17010 Waterfall Lisa Tawn Bergren American English
7633 Hitch 22 Christopher Hitchens 2010 British English
1461 Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 British English
17010 People Person Candace CartyWilliams 2022 British English
14165 Foundryside Robert Jackson Bennett 2018 American English
4052 Bad Behavior Mary Gaitskill 1988 American English
17010 How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll Elijah Wald 2009 American English
17010 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
16549 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
17010 Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson 2009 American English
17010 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
2941 Sighs And Smiles François Haverschmidt 1867 Dutch Dutch
17010 Hyperbole And A Half & Solutions And Other Problems By Allie Brosh 2 Books Collection Set Allie Brosh 2013 American English
17010 The Pink Line Mark Gevisser 2020 South African English
14842 Surprised By Joy C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
17010 One Of Us Knows Alyssa Cole Unknown Unknown
16569 The Reluctant Widow Georgette Heyer 1946 British English
2689 Near To The Wild Heart Clarice Lispector 1943 Brazilian Portuguese
16556 Psychology And Alchemy C.G. Jung 1944 Swiss German
16562 Michel Strogoff Jules Verne 1876 French French
14010 Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver 1976 American English
9022 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer 2024 Unknown English
17010 Morgon Og Kveld Jon Fosse 2000 Norwegian Norwegian
6657 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
16560 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
14901 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
16558 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
707 Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson 1830 British English
2625 Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann 1966 American English
17010 Akira, Vol. 6 Katsuhiro Otomo 1993 Japanese Japanese
1996 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013 American English
13256 Publieke Werken Thomas Rosenboom 1999 Dutch Dutch
17010 Le Troisième Mensonge Agota Kristof 1991 French
1349 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
17010 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17010 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17010 The Actual Star Monica Byrne 2021 American English
17010 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English
14901 The Woman Who Rides Like A Man Tamora Pierce 1986 American English
17010 The Mighty Micro Christopher Evans 1979 British English
14776 Hiroshima Diary Michihiko Hachiya 1955 Japanese Japanese
17010 Neville Goddard Neville Goddard Unknown English
17010 Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx 1996 American English
6661 What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell 2009 Canadian English
5886 Caught Henry Green 1943 British English
2641 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
14165 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
2226 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 American English
17010 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
3201 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
17010 Rogue Protocol Martha Wells 2018 American English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
4484 Voyage In The Dark Jean Rhys 1934 British English
14901 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
3158 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill 2014 American English
17010 The Nix Nathan Hill 2016 American English
14275 The Circle Dave Eggers 2013 American English
738 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
16564 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
17010 Spirit Fighter Jerel Law American Unknown
2794 The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 1621 British English
13206 Harrow The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2020 New Zealand English
17010 The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson 1998 American English
17010 A Voyage For Madmen Peter Nichols 2001 British English