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
17158 Waiting For Eden Elliot Ackerman 2018 American English
6215 The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey 1975 American English
17158 So Sad Today Melissa Broder 2016 American English
17158 Akira, Vol. 5 Katsuhiro Otomo 1990 Japanese Japanese
902 Under the Net Iris Murdoch 1954 British English
17158 Listen For The Lie Amy Tintera 2023 American English
14985 Let's Talk About Love Carl Wilson 2007 Canadian English
17158 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17158 Zero At The Bone Bryce Marshall 1994 Unknown English
16679 The Pilgrim's Regress C. S. Lewis 1933 British English
14985 Memory Lois McMaster Bujold 1996 American English
5996 The Green Road Anne Enright 2015 Irish English
867 Heidi Johanna Spyri 1881 Swiss German
17158 Living Untethered Michael A. Singer 2022 American English
17158 Astro City, Vol. 1 Kurt Busiek 1996 American English
16678 The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid Homer -800 Greek Ancient greek
17158 Moonflower Murders Anthony Horowitz 2020 British English
1291 Parzival Wolfram Eschenbach 1200 German Middle high german
16675 Droga donikąd Józef Mackiewicz 1955 Polish Polish
17158 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
10640 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
17158 The Story Of A New Name Elena Ferrante 2012 Italian Italian
2166 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska 1925 American English
17158 Foggage Patrick McGinley 1983 Irish English
17158 Cinnamon Gardens Shyam Selvadurai 1998 Sri Lankan English
3243 The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972 American English
16676 The Iliad Of Homer Richmond Lattimore -762 Greek Ancient greek
17158 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
17158 A Concise History Of The Common Law Theodore Plucknett 2013 British English
17158 The Sculptor Scott McCloud 2015 American English
2949 Sighs And Smiles François Haverschmidt 1867 Dutch Dutch
17158 The Spirituality Of Imperfection Ernest Kurtz 1992 American English
17158 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
10579 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
14985 The Dark Tower Stephen King 1982 American English
4489 La Pesanteur Et La Grâce Simone Weil 1947 French French
12220 The Victim Saul Bellow 1947 American English
780 Maxims François duc de La Rochefoucauld 1665 French French
17158 Hurricane Girl Marcy Dermansky 2022 American English
13506 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
17158 This Book Is Full Of Spiders David Wong 2012 American English
16682 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
16681 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
10867 City Of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett 2014 American English
2396 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos 1989 American English
6854 Chelsea Girls Eileen Myles 1994 American English
17158 Provenance Ann Leckie 2017 American English
1324 A Judgement In Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 British English
16674 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
1347 Story of the Eye Georges Bataille 1928 French French
14985 Pandora's Jar Natalie Haynes 2020 British English
17158 The Magnetist's Fifth Winter Per Olov Enquist Swedish Swedish
2645 The Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
14090 String Theory David Foster Wallace 2016 American English
17158 East Of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck American Unknown
964 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French French
17158 The Thirst For Annihilation Nick Land 1992 British English
3896 Zoo Station Christiane V. Felscherinow 1978 German German
17158 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
11203 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
17158 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17158 The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell 1977 American English
14985 The Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean 2010 American English
4731 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
14232 Under A White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert 2021 American English
17158 When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson 2008 British English
17158 Von Hier Bis Zum Anfang Chris Whitaker 2021 British English
17158 How Did You Get This Number Sloane Crosley 2010 American English
2489 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann 2005 German German
17158 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17158 Hiddensee Gregory Maguire 2008 American English
1287 Odessa Stories Isaac Babel 1923 Ukrainian Russian
17158 Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan 2016 Unknown English
17158 The Viceroy Of Ouidah Bruce Chatwin 1980 British English
2676 Deep Water Patricia Highsmith 1957 American English
17158 Explaining Social Behavior Jon Elster 2007 Norwegian English
17158 The Waste Lands Stephen King 1991 American English
7688 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
17158 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult 2016 American English
17158 Harsh Cry Of The Heron Lian Hearn 2006 Japanese English
17158 Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022 American English
17158 Le Grand Cahier Agota Kristof 1986 French French
6084 Dissolution C. J. Sansom 2003 British English
8836 Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger 2013 American English
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
1340 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1461 Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 British English
17158 Tangerine Edward Bloor 1997 American English
17158 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
16685 I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy Christine 1955 French French
16692 Lady Susan Jane Austen 1871 British English
17158 Akira, Vol. 6 Katsuhiro Otomo 1993 Japanese Japanese
739 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
7648 Hitch 22 Christopher Hitchens 2010 British English
16688 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
17158 La Preuve Agota Kristof 1988 French
17158 Waterfall Lisa Tawn Bergren American English
14232 Foundryside Robert Jackson Bennett 2018 American English
17158 How To Dunk A Doughnut Len Fisher 2002 British English
1488 Beatrijs Unknown 1374 Dutch Middle dutch
720 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
17158 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
10453 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
4057 Bad Behavior Mary Gaitskill 1988 American English
17158 The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 American English
17158 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown
2435 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
17158 A Prayer For The Crown Shy Becky Chambers 2022 American English
17158 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
6257 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
2710 Les Caractères Jean de La Bruyère 1688 French French
13290 Publieke Werken Thomas Rosenboom 1999 Dutch Dutch
1199 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
9920 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 2006 British English
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
8793 Audition Ryū Murakami 1997 Japanese Japanese
1179 Living Henry Green 1929 British English
14985 Rubicon Tom Holland 2003 British English
880 Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish