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
16685 I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die Arnothy Christine 1955 French French
17158 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
17158 Eros The Bittersweet Anne Carson 1986 Canadian English
17158 People Person Candace CartyWilliams 2022 British English
17158 The Three Musketeers, The Count Of Monte Cristo, And The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 2006 French French
14051 The Power To Compete Hiroshi Mikitani, Ryoichi Mikitani 2014 Japanese English
17158 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
2435 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
1199 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
8793 Audition Ryū Murakami 1997 Japanese Japanese
16693 To A God Unknown John Steinbeck 1933 American English
17158 Black Snake Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys 2021 Unknown English
2710 Les Caractères Jean de La Bruyère 1688 French French
17158 Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson 2009 American English
6680 A Fraction Of The Whole Steve Toltz 2008 Australian English
720 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
17158 The Magician Michael Scott 2008 Irish English
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
17158 The Shaman's Mind Jonathan Hammond 2020 Unknown English
14985 The Day We Found The Universe Marcia Bartusiak 2009 American English
17158 La Preuve Agota Kristof 1988 French
16689 Walking The Whirlwind Brigid Knight 1970 Unknown English
16690 The Sea And Poison Shūsaku Endō 1958 Japanese Japanese
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
17158 How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll Elijah Wald 2009 American English
17158 The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum 1986 American English
17158 The Last Days Of The Incas Kim MacQuarrie 2007 Unknown English
739 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
16686 De Witte Ernest Claes 1920 Belgian Dutch
17158 Sadie Courtney Summers 2018 Canadian English
16688 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
14232 Foundryside Robert Jackson Bennett 2018 American English
9920 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 2006 British English
16710 O Sztuce Miłości Erich Fromm 1956 German Polish
17158 A Voyage For Madmen Peter Nichols 2001 British English
16704 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
2799 The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 1621 British English
16701 Los Jefes, Los Cachorros Mario Vargas Llosa 1959 Peruvian Spanish
17158 Robopocalypse Daniel H. Wilson 2011 American English
17158 Anleitung Zum Unglücklichsein Paul Watzlawick 1983 Austrian German
13239 Harrow The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2020 New Zealand English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
16707 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
4490 Voyage In The Dark Jean Rhys 1934 British English
17158 Lincoln In The Bardo By George Saunders Instaread Summaries 2017 American English
1342 The Principles of Psychology William James 1890 American English
14068 Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver 1976 American English
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
17158 A Good Death Philip Ross 1983 Unknown English
16695 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
6672 What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell 2009 Canadian English
6379 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
17158 Rogue Protocol Martha Wells 2018 American English
16698 The Rambler Samuel Johnson 1784 English English
2238 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 American English
17158 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17158 Neville Goddard Neville Goddard Unknown English
16703 De L'inconvénient D'être Né Emil Cioran 1973 French
14985 The Woman Who Rides Like A Man Tamora Pierce 1986 American English
16708 Psychology And Alchemy C.G. Jung 1944 Swiss German
17158 The Veiled Throne Ken Liu 2021 American English
17158 Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx 1996 American English
17158 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
17158 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English
16702 Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné Victor Hugo 1829 French French
9039 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer 2024 Unknown English
10061 Wellness Nathan Hill 2024 American English
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
17158 One Of Us Knows Alyssa Cole Unknown Unknown
2629 Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann 1966 American English
17158 The Pink Line Mark Gevisser 2020 South African English
1559 Character F. Bordewijk 1938 Dutch Dutch
2693 Near To The Wild Heart Clarice Lispector 1943 Brazilian Portuguese
16699 Michel Strogoff Jules Verne 1876 French French
12779 Tender Is The Flesh Agustina Bazterrica 2017 Argentine Spanish
369 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 Austrian German
2001 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013 American English
3165 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill 2014 American English
17158 The Diviners Libba Bray 2012 American English
2881 The Comedy Of Errors William Shakespeare 1594 British English
17158 The Wool Trilogy Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17158 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
707 Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson 1830 British English
16705 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin 1962 American English
13321 The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett 2024 American Unknown
17158 The Blue Zones Dan Buettner 2008 American English
17158 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
14862 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Sigmund Freud 1921 Austrian German
17158 Morgon Og Kveld Jon Fosse 2000 Norwegian Norwegian
17158 The Nix Nathan Hill 2016 American English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
14985 Hawkeye Matt Fraction 2012 American English
14232 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
17158 The Chain Adrian McKinty 2019 Irish English
16709 The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian
14861 Hiroshima Diary Michihiko Hachiya 1955 Japanese Japanese
17158 The Actual Star Monica Byrne 2021 American English
5144 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
14985 The Alchemyst Michael Scott 2007 Irish English
14985 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
16700 The Reluctant Widow Georgette Heyer 1946 British English
16706 The Ethics Of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir 1947 French French
17158 The Mighty Micro Christopher Evans 1979 British English
17158 The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson 1998 American English
16694 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
1353 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
17158 Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins 1980 American English
14985 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
6411 Bluets Maggie Nelson 2009 American English
14343 The Circle Dave Eggers 2013 American English
17158 Spirit Fighter Jerel Law American Unknown
2337 Libra Don DeLillo 1988 American English
14930 Surprised By Joy C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
5898 Caught Henry Green 1943 British English
17158 Le Troisième Mensonge Agota Kristof 1991 French
1532 Arturo's Island Elsa Morante 1957 Italian Italian
17158 Astoria Peter Stark 2014 American English
3208 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
7189 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
2436 Modern Times Paul Johnson 1983 British English