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
13541 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
2197 Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho 1998 Brazilian Portuguese
6698 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
17113 Building The Orange Wave Lavigne, Brad 2013 Canadian English
17113 Braking Day Oyebanji, Adam 2022 British English
17113 The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson 2020 American English
8616 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
8789 The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 American English
16735 The Singing Sands Josephine Tey 1952 British English
6282 Union Street Pat Barker 1982 British English
11452 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
7028 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson 2011 American English
10781 Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie 1995 American English
10826 Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz 2002 British English
7948 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
17113 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
677 The Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker 1931 American English
16741 Alice In Wonderland Jane Carruth 1865 British English
2382 Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci 1883 Italian Italian
541 The Waning of the Middle Ages Johan Huizinga 1919 Dutch Dutch
3887 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
17113 The Hike Drew Magary 2016 American English
17113 Autoportrait Édouard Levé 2005 French French
1592 Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys 1939 British English
17113 The Unfolding Of Language Guy Deutscher 2005 British English
17113 The Unnatural Nature Of Science Lewis Wolpert 1992 British English
5517 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King 1992 American English
17113 A Spy Among Friends Ben Macintyre 2014 British English
9284 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
4308 It Ends With Us Colleen Hoover 2016 American English
718 A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967 American English
17113 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
14898 Father And Son E. O. Plauen 1934 German German
17113 The Alchemaster's Apprentice Walter Moers 2007 German German
5629 Hatchet Gary Paulsen 1987 American English
860 The Palm-Wine Drinkard Amos Tutola 1952 Nigerian English
1913 World's End T. C. Boyle 1987 American English
17113 Wool Omnibus Hugh Howey 2012 American English
1183 Poems of Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca 1921 Spanish Spanish
14896 The Common Reader Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
9858 The Red Tent Anita Diamant 1997 American English
6681 Barren Lives Graciliano Ramos 1965 Brazilian Portuguese
2196 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
14897 Jeeves In The Offing P. G. Wodehouse 1960 British English
1645 Song Of Myself Walt Whitman 1855 American English
17113 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
1394 The Business of Living Cesare Pavese 1952 Italian Italian
17113 Villa Vortex Maurice G. Dantec 2003 French French
17113 Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid 2021 American English
15010 Gulp Mary Roach 2013 American English
13760 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
17113 Peaceland Séverine Autesserre 2014 Unknown English
17113 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
5899 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
5095 Sartoris William Faulkner 1929 American English
16749 Caligula Albert Camus 1944 French French
17113 The Phone Booth At The Edge Of The World Laura Imai Messina 2020 Italian Italian
13951 Ramona The Pest Beverly Cleary 1968 American English
17113 One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus 2017 American English
4148 Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1990 American English
3237 Hms Ulysses Alistair MacLean 1955 Scottish English
2302 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
4761 Vertigo W. G. Sebald 1990 German German
17113 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17113 The Unsinkable Ship Of Fools Jonas Goonface 2025 Unknown English
16752 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17113 The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi 2014 American English
17113 Give Unto Others Donna Leon 2022 American English
15010 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
17113 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
16744 Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals Immanuel Kant 1785 German
17113 Up Country Nelson DeMille 2002 American English
2822 The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis 1954 British English
7651 Angels In America Tony Kushner 1991 American English
10550 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
15010 The Given Day Dennis Lehane 2008 American English
2152 Conversations Of Goethe With Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann 1836 German German
17113 Unwind Neal Shusterman 2007 American English
10560 The Body Keeps The Score Bessel van der Kolk 2014 American English
17113 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
17113 1 Q84. книга 1. апрель июнь haruki murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
17113 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
5642 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
7671 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
17113 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
16755 A Medicine For Melancholy And Other Stories Ray Bradbury 1959 American English
17113 Ttfn Lauren Myracle 2006 American English
17113 L8r, G8r Lauren Myracle 2007 American English
666 The Family Moskat Isaac Bashevis Singer 1950 Polish Yiddish
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
16748 Mac Flecknoe, Or, A Satyr Upon The True Blew Protestant Poet, T. S. John Dryden 1682 British English
1710 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
17113 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
16762 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
17113 The Lost Continent Bill Bryson 1989 American English
15010 Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell 2021 British English
15010 The Magician King Lev Grossman 2011 American English
17113 What Dreams May Come Richard Matheson 1978 American English
9026 Desert Flower Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller 1998 American English
15010 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
9104 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
2840 Ashenden, Or, The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 1928 British English
1625 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1061 The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz del Castillo 1632 Spanish Spanish
10088 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
17113 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
15010 The Devil Of Nanking Mo Hayder 2005 British English
4576 Alanna Tamora Pierce 1983 American English
16793 Dragonwyck Anya Seton 1944 American English
17113 Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon 1996 American English
14251 Planet Of The Apes Pierre Boulle 1963 French French
17113 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
16743 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
8054 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
7750 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
16751 Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie 1920 British English
9921 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
17113 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
17113 Bodies And Souls Nancy Thayer 1983 American English