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
17010 One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus 2017 American English
14901 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
17010 Against Everything Mark Greif 2016 American English
17010 From Here To The Great Unknown Lisa Marie Presley Unknown Unknown
17010 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
2818 The Leg Willem Elsschot 1946 Belgian Dutch
12198 Batwoman Greg Rucka 2009 American English
1622 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
14901 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
14901 A Stroke Of The Pen Terry Pratchett 2023 British English
1057 The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz del Castillo 1632 Spanish Spanish
5835 Revolution in the Head Ian MacDonald 1994 British English
17010 The 4 Hour Body Timothy Ferriss 2010 American English
9088 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
17010 The Truth Neil Strauss 2015 American English
17010 Love's Executioner Irvin D. Yalom 1989 American English
17010 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
4141 Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1990 American English
14787 Palm Of The Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1949 Japanese Japanese
17010 Porno Irvine Welsh 2002 Scottish English
1707 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
2816 The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis 1954 British English
13880 Ramona The Pest Beverly Cleary 1968 American English
16643 Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals Immanuel Kant 1785 German
2834 Ashenden, Or, The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 1928 British English
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
14901 A Hat Full of Sky Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
17010 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
10064 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
17010 The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi 2014 American English
3297 The Cocktail Party T. S. Eliot 1950 British English
4754 Vertigo W. G. Sebald 1990 German German
4466 Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 Irish English
17010 Catapult Your Productivity Damon Zahariades American English
17010 Run Ann Patchett 2007 American English
17010 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
17010 The Beauty And The Sorrow Peter Englund 2011 Swedish Swedish
17010 A Natureza Da Mordida Carla Madeira 2021 Brazilian Portuguese
16651 The Present Age Soren Kierkegaard 1846 Danish Danish
16683 The Man In The Queue Josephine Tey 1929 British English
17010 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
17010 House Of Suns Alastair Reynolds 2008 British English
17010 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
8615 Vanishing Point David Markson 2004 American English
17010 The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See 2017 American English
4532 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
10529 The Body Keeps The Score Bessel van der Kolk 2014 American English
17010 Unwind Neal Shusterman 2007 American English
14901 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
17010 Inés Da Minha Alma Isabel Allende 2006 Chilean Spanish
9898 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
16640 Mac Flecknoe, Or, A Satyr Upon The True Blew Protestant Poet, T. S. John Dryden 1682 British English
14901 The Magician King Lev Grossman 2011 American English
17010 Cursed Fates Caroline Peckham 2022 Unknown English
16635 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
14141 Planet Of The Apes Pierre Boulle 1963 French French
17010 Girls Against God Jenny Hval 2018 Norwegian English
16638 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
4607 Gulag Anne Applebaum 2003 American English
5634 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
10519 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
768 A Voyage To Arcturus David Lindsay 1920 Scottish English
11003 American Nations Colin Woodard 2011 American English
17010 The Making Of Europe Robert Bartlett 1993 British English
17010 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
2141 Conversations Of Goethe With Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann 1836 German German
16644 Yama Aleksandr Kuprin 1909 Russian Russian
2679 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
11382 Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold 1991 American English
2041 The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren 1973 Swedish Swedish
10928 The Magicians Lev Grossman 2009 American English
8397 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
17010 The Magic Kingdom Russell Banks 2022 American English
17010 Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman 2012 American English
17010 I Hope This Reaches Her In Time r.h. Sin 2017 American English
14901 The Battle For God Karen Armstrong 2000 British English
2681 Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen Henrik Ibsen 1900 Norwegian Norwegian
14102 The Secret Of The Old Clock Carolyn Keene 1930 American English
16697 A Shilling For Candles Josephine Tey 1953 British English
14901 Translations Brian Friel 1980 Irish English
17010 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17010 How To Stay Married Harrison Scott Key 2023 American English
17010 The Unthinkable Amanda Ripley 2008 American English
4602 Here Richard McGuire 2014 American English
17010 Rosalie Lightning Tom Hart 2016 American English
17010 The Alice Network Kate Quinn 2017 American English
17010 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Richard R. George 1976 Unknown English
1430 Cakes And Ale Or, The Skeleton In The Cupboard W. Somerset Maugham 1930 British English
17010 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17010 The Comfort Book Matt Haig 2021 British English
2496 Rebellion In The Backlands Euclides da Cunha 1902 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 The Militia House John Milas 2023 Unknown English
16689 Fenitschka/Deviations Dorothee Krahn 1898 German English
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
17010 Remaking A World Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman 2001 American English
14901 The Year Of The Flood Margaret Atwood 2009 Canadian English
17010 Bodies And Souls Nancy Thayer 1983 American English
2956 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
3066 Lunch Poems Frank O'Hara 1964 American English
2778 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
17010 Syrian Brides Anna Halabi 2018 Unknown English
2425 The Call Of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1928 American English
17010 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English
1410 Poem of the Cid Unknown 1207 Spanish Old spanish
9698 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
1615 Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 Romanian Romanian
17010 Harrow Joy Williams 2021 American English
17010 Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson 2000 Canadian English
17010 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
10795 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
14901 The Water Outlaws S. L. Huang 2023 Unknown English
10257 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
17010 The Emperor's Soul Brandon Sanderson 2012 American English
17010 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 Mircea Eliade 1982 Romanian French
17010 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
736 The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1913 American English
706 The Skin Curzio Malaparte 1949 Italian Italian
577 Anniversaries Uwe Johnson 1970 German German
3600 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
17010 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English