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
16578 The Complete Tales And Poems Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
17010 The Music Of Chance Paul Auster 1990 American English
809 Poems by Machado Antonio Machado 1907 Spanish Spanish
17010 Ghostwater Will Wight 2018 American English
16588 Fear And Trembling And The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
17010 Heartless Marissa Meyer 2016 American English
1706 The Guns Of Navarone Alistair MacLean 1957 British English
14901 Passage Connie Willis 2001 American English
17010 Earth Flight Janet Edwards Unknown Unknown
17010 Deep Work Cal Newport 2016 American English
17010 Blackflame Will Wight 2017 American English
727 Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac 1927 French French
8009 Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner 1986 American English
17010 The Outrun Amy Liptrot 2016 British English
17010 Το εγχειρίδιο του πολεμιστή του φωτός Paulo Coelho 1997 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Carl's Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman 2023 Unknown English
8223 Beach Read Emily Henry 2020 American English
17010 Masters Of Death Olivie Blake 2023 Unknown English
14010 The Road To Character David Brooks 2015 American English
6147 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
17010 A Empregada Freida McFadden 2022 American English
17010 Scion Of Ikshvaku Amish Tripathi 2015 Indian English
17010 Miracle At St. Anna James McBride 2002 American English
10406 A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 1992 American English
17010 Ireland Frank Delaney 2004 British English
1805 Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson 1957 Finnish Swedish
17010 Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink 2015 American English
17010 The Greatest Cases Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle British English
5642 Nothing To See Here Kevin Wilson 2019 American English
12222 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
17010 A Shining Jon Fosse Unknown Norwegian
17010 Identical Ellen Hopkins 2008 American English
4512 The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander 1965 American English
16598 David Cooperfield Charles Dickens 1850 British English
10266 I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong 2016 British English
16586 Os Miseráveis 1 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
17010 The Factory Hiroko Oyamada 2013 Japanese Japanese
16587 Protagoras Plato -390 Greek Ancient greek
17010 Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins 1984 American English
17010 Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 1998 American English
17010 The Long Walk Richard Bachman 1979 American English
9622 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
7568 Animal Liberation Peter Singer 1975 Australian English
17010 Super Crunchers How Anything Can Be Predicted Ian Ayres 2007 American English
17010 Shield Of Sparrows Devney Perry American English
16585 Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο Nikos Kazantzakis 1961 Greek Greek
4501 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
17010 Billy Summers Stephen King 2021 American English
17010 Beren And Luthien J. R. R. Tolkien 2017 British English
10738 A Darker Shade Of Magic V. E. Schwab 2015 American English
5987 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1992 American English
1191 The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski 1965 Polish English
3193 Mao II Don DeLillo 1991 American English
17010 From A Buick 8 Stephen King 2002 American English
1652 The Loyal Subject Heinrich Mann 1918 German German
14901 The Book Of Form And Emptiness Ruth Ozeki 2021 Japanese English
14871 Vol De Nuit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1931 French French
3245 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy 1983 American English
17010 Last Chance To See Douglas Adams 1989 British English
8610 Things In Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li 2025 Unknown English
5689 The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg 1962 Italian Italian
17010 A Prayer For The Crown Shy Becky Chambers 2022 American English
17010 2 A.M. In Little America Ken Kalfus 2022 American English
3843 Quiet Susan Cain 2012 English
17010 Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012 American English
17010 The Lord Of The Rings Brian Sibley British Unknown
545 Jealousy Alain Robbe-Grillet 1957 French French
16589 Diary Of A Seducer Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
1744 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume 1779 British English
16595 Guignol's Band I et II Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1944 French French
17010 Blind Man's Bluff Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Drew 1998 American English
17010 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17010 Willful Child Steven Erikson 2014 Canadian English
14901 Sailing To Sarantium Guy Gavriel Kay 1998 Canadian English
1278 So Long a Letter Mariama Bâ 1980 Senegalese French
17010 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
16597 The Misanthrope / Tartuffe Molière 1666 French French
13206 Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse 2020 American English
3075 Under the Skin Michel Faber 2000 British English
1078 The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2947 Dog Soldiers Robert Stone 1974 American English
8678 Throne Of Glass Sarah J. Maas 2012 American English
16600 The Peregrine J. A. Baker 1967 British English
14901 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
16596 Faust, Part Two Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 German German
17010 Fooled By Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2001 American English
16593 Sanshirō Natsume Sōseki 1908 Japanese Japanese
10928 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
1993 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
17010 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Rise To Rebellion Jeff Shaara 2001 American English
17010 Beware Of Chicken 3 CasualFarmer 2023 Unknown English
1469 Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1939 French French
723 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
17010 Finding Freedom Erin French 2021 American English
16601 Sufferings In Africa James Whitcomb Riley 1817 Unknown Unknown
9236 To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip José Farmer 1971 American English
17010 When Sisterhood Was In Flower Florence King 1982 American English
2720 A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt 1960 American English
1492 Charles And Elegast Unknown 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
17010 War Louis-Ferdinand Céline 2022 French French
11273 Run For The Hills Kevin Wilson 2025 Unknown English
1333 Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig 1976 Argentinian Spanish
17010 Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 Hiromu Arakawa 2001 Japanese Japanese
2086 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
7768 Close To The Machine Ellen Ullman 1997 American English
5677 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Gita Anant Pai 1999 Indian English
2532 The Way of a Pilgrim Unknown 1884 Russian Russian
5710 Youth J. M. Coetzee 2002 South African English
16609 Naomi Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 1924 Japanese Japanese
17010 Mystery Peter Straub 1990 American English
17010 Yatharth Geeta Swami Adgadanand 1994 Indian Unknown
16611 How To Read A Book Mortimer J. Adler 1940 American English
2362 The Power of One Bryce Courtenay 1989 Australian English
17010 Tomás Nevinson Javier Marias 2021 Spanish Spanish
17010 The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman 2011 American English
2426 The Einstein Intersection Samuel R. Delany 1967 American English
17010 Sheepfarmers Daughter Elizabeth Moon 1988 American English
1467 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner William Faulkner 1950 American English