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
2616 The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker 1988 American English
17010 The Case For Mars Robert Zubrin 1996 American English
6792 Bird Box Josh Malerman 2014 American English
14165 Rivers Of London Ben Aaronovitch 2011 British English
17010 The Circle Of Fire Don Miguel Ruiz 2013 Unknown English
17010 The Innkeeper's Song Peter S. Beagle 1993 American English
5266 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
17010 Wintersteel Will Wight 2020 American English
544 The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie Agota Kristof 1986 Hungarian French
3008 The American Henry James 1877 American English
14901 The Briar Club Kate Quinn 2024 Unknown Unknown
2789 Soft Soap Willem Elsschot 1931 Belgian Dutch
11382 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm 1976 American English
13742 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
17010 Code Red Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills 2023 American English
1915 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez 1994 Dominican English
16624 What Makes Sammy Run? Budd Schulberg 1941 American English
17010 Hooked McIntire, Emily 2021 Unknown English
16622 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym 1950 British English
13994 What If? Randall Munroe 2014 American English
6242 Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson 2012 American English
16618 To Love And Be Wise Josephine Tey 1950 British English
17010 The Harry Potter Collection 1 4 J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
17010 A Light In The Attic (20th Anniversary Edition Book & Cd) Shel Silverstein 1981 American English
8243 Christine Stephen King 1983 American English
17010 Summa Contra Gentiles Thomas Aquinas 1992 Italian Latin
7018 Going Clear Lawrence Wright 2013 American English
17010 Traditional Buddhist Mind Training: Essential Mind Training Thupten Jinpa Tibetan English
10425 A Peace To End All Peace David Fromkin 1989 American English
1135 The Black Prince Iris Murdoch 1973 British English
17010 Better Than The Movies Lynn Painter 2021 American English
17010 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership John C. Maxwell 1998 American English
17010 Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out Yan Mo 2006 Chinese Chinese
9243 An Immense World Ed Yong 2022 British English
17010 Londres Louis-Ferdinand Céline 2022 French Unknown
5888 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
17010 Radicalized Cory Doctorow 2019 Canadian English
16621 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
17010 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
548 Max Havelaar Multatuli 1860 Dutch Dutch
3809 Henry IV, Part II William Shakespeare 1600 British English
5982 The Children's Book A. S. Byatt 2009 British English
14901 Shoeless Joe W. P. Kinsella 1982 Canadian English
1480 The Little Golden Calf Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1931 Russian Russian
17010 Mary Coin Marisa Silver 2013 American English
6883 The Company Robert Littell 2002 American English
6653 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
17010 The Twist Of The Knife Anthony Horowitz 2019 British English
17010 Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications Of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky 1980 American English
16623 Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 Soren Kierkegaard 1846 Danish Danish
14901 Dreamcatcher Stephen King 2001 American English
644 Villette Charlotte Brontë 1853 British English
3484 Descent Into Hell Charles Williams 1937 British English
16630 The Singing Sands Josephine Tey 1952 British English
1589 Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys 1939 British English
859 The Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutola 1952 Nigerian English
17010 Giant Bones Peter S. Beagle 1997 American English
6273 Union Street Pat Barker 1982 British English
509 Sanctuary William Faulkner 1931 American English
17010 Pirate Latitudes Michael Crichton 2009 American English
11546 Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana 1923 Spanish English
17010 Reading Like A Writer Francine Prose 2006 American English
2157 Bread And Wine Ignazio Silone 1936 Italian Italian
17010 The Expanse James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
17010 The Art Of Saying No Damon Zahariades 2017 American English
6688 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
17010 The Short Drop Matthew FitzSimmons 2015 American English
17010 Morrer Na Primavera Ralf Rothmann 2015 German German
14901 Gulp Mary Roach 2013 American English
4301 It Ends With Us Colleen Hoover 2016 American English
17010 Infinite Ground Martin MacInnes 2016 British English
17010 The Knife Of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness 2008 British English
5621 Hatchet Gary Paulsen 1987 American English
17010 The Cardinal Sins Andrew M. Greeley 1981 American English
17010 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17010 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
16626 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
2375 Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci 1883 Italian Italian
5889 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
10282 The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood 2021 American English
5019 The City & the City China Miéville 2009 British English
11412 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
5568 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
14901 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
16625 Tournament Shelby Foote 1949 American English
7017 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson 2011 American English
537 The Waning of the Middle Ages Johan Huizinga 1919 Dutch Dutch
1083 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1993 British English
14901 The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell 2010 British English
1393 The Business of Living Cesare Pavese 1952 Italian Italian
8169 Blacklands Belinda Bauer 2010 British English
8602 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
17010 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
6671 Barren Lives Graciliano Ramos 1965 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021 American English
2904 Villa Des Roses Willem Elsschot 1913 Belgian Dutch
2184 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
9267 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
6213 Justice Michael J. Sandel 2007 American English
2185 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 1998 Brazilian Portuguese
13479 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
17010 Braking Day Oyebanji, Adam 2022 British English
17010 チェンソーマン 9 [Chainsaw Man 9] Tatsuki Fujimoto Japanese Japanese
17010 Peaceland Séverine Autesserre 2014 Unknown English
17010 The Fifth Sacred Thing Starhawk 1993 American English
14901 House Of X Powers Of X Jonathan Hickman 2019 American English
13693 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
17010 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17010 Building The Orange Wave Lavigne, Brad 2013 Canadian English
3582 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 British English
14901 Virtual Light William Gibson 1993 American English
17010 Solo Leveling 02 Dubu, CHUGONG 2020 Korean Korean
1891 A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1949 American English
16629 Twilight Of The Idols, Or How To Philosophize With A Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 German German
14783 The Common Reader Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
17010 Dereliction Of Duty H.R. McMaster 1997 American English
8775 The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 American English
14165 The Boys In The Boat Daniel James Brown 2013 American English
17010 The Professor And The Madman Simon Winchester 1998 British English
10748 Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie 1995 American English