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
17158 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
1642 Song Of Myself Walt Whitman 1855 American English
17158 Giant Bones Peter S. Beagle 1997 American English
17158 Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver Unknown Unknown
17158 Wool Omnibus Hugh Howey 2012 American English
2781 Mist Miguel de Unamuno 1914 Spanish English
17158 The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson 2020 American English
17158 Worldviews Richard DeWitt 2004 Unknown English
5901 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
17158 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
1182 Poems of Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca 1921 Spanish Spanish
17158 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17158 Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Steven Hayes 1999 American English
17158 Men In Love Irvine Welsh 2025 Scottish English
14872 The Common Reader Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
17158 Tales From Watership Down Richard Adams 1996 British English
6222 Justice Michael J. Sandel 2007 American English
5096 Sartoris William Faulkner 1929 American English
10822 Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz 2002 British English
17158 The Rising Tide Ann Cleeves British English
14232 Men Without Women Haruki Murakami 2014 Japanese Japanese
675 The Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker 1931 American English
717 A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967 American English
14873 Jeeves In The Offing P. G. Wodehouse 1960 British English
3585 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 British English
2197 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
16778 The Singing Sands Josephine Tey 1952 British English
17158 A Spy Among Friends Ben Macintyre 2014 British English
17158 The Unfolding Of Language Guy Deutscher 2005 British English
8052 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
17158 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17158 Miracles Marcy Heidish 1984 Unknown Unknown
17158 Cursed Fates Caroline Peckham 2022 Unknown English
16802 The Man In The Queue Josephine Tey 1929 British English
9107 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
4471 Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 Irish English
16782 Mac Flecknoe, Or, A Satyr Upon The True Blew Protestant Poet, T. S. John Dryden 1682 British English
17158 The Unsinkable Ship Of Fools Jonas Goonface 2025 Unknown English
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
17158 Qur'an And Woman Amina Wadud 1992 American English
17158 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
9916 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
17158 One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus 2017 American English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
17158 Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon 1996 American English
17158 The Lost Continent Bill Bryson 1989 American English
17158 The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd 1977 Scottish English
7672 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
2152 Conversations Of Goethe With Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann 1836 German German
16793 Will To Believe And Other Essays In Popular Philosophy William James 1897 American English
14985 The Third Realm Karl Ove Knausgård 2024 Norwegian Norwegian
17158 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
14207 Planet Of The Apes Pierre Boulle 1963 French French
17158 The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson 2023 American English
17158 Catapult Your Productivity Damon Zahariades American English
10547 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
1624 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1059 The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz del Castillo 1632 Spanish Spanish
17158 Inés Da Minha Alma Isabel Allende 2006 Chilean Spanish
7752 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
5847 Revolution in the Head Ian MacDonald 1994 British English
14985 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
16787 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
5643 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
14985 The Given Day Dennis Lehane 2008 American English
1710 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
17158 Day of the Oprichnik Vladimir Sorokine 2006 Russian Russian
17158 The Cat's Pajamas Ray Bradbury 2004 American English
17158 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
8631 Vanishing Point David Markson 2004 American English
17158 A Natureza Da Mordida Carla Madeira 2021 Brazilian Portuguese
16796 Dragonwyck Anya Seton 1944 American English
2842 Ashenden, Or, The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 1928 British English
Ghiaccio Nove Kurt Vonnegut Jr. American Unknown
17158 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
17158 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
17158 The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi 2014 American English
17158 Against Everything Mark Greif 2016 American English
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
10083 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
6481 I'm Not Scared Niccolò Ammaniti 2001 Italian Italian
9027 Desert Flower Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller 1998 American English
4762 Vertigo W. G. Sebald 1990 German German
17158 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
17158 Unwind Neal Shusterman 2007 American English
12226 Batwoman Greg Rucka 2009 American English
10557 The Body Keeps The Score Bessel van der Kolk 2014 American English
14985 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
17158 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
13931 Ramona The Pest Beverly Cleary 1968 American English
2008 Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
4576 Alanna Tamora Pierce 1983 American English
16792 Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals Immanuel Kant 1785 German German
17158 Love's Executioner Irvin D. Yalom 1989 American English
14985 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
2303 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
17158 City Of Thieves David Benioff 2008 American English
17158 Run Ann Patchett 2007 American English
17158 Up Country Nelson DeMille 2002 American English
17158 Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2016 Canadian English
16795 The Present Age Soren Kierkegaard 1846 Danish Danish
17158 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
3070 Caramelo Sandra Cisneros 2002 American English
4537 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
16784 Potop Henryk Sienkiewicz 1886 Polish Polish
17158 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
14985 The Devil Of Nanking Mo Hayder 2005 British English
17158 House Of Suns Alastair Reynolds 2008 British English
5275 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams 1955 American English
17158 Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom 2020 Unknown English
17158 Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino 2022 American English
2824 The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis 1954 British English
17158 Unravel Me Tahereh Mafi 2013 American English
17158 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
16785 Yama Aleksandr Kuprin 1909 Russian Russian
17158 Girls Against God Jenny Hval 2018 Norwegian English
14985 Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell 2021 British English
17158 Meet Me In The Bathroom Lizzy Goodman 2017 American English
17158 Give Unto Others Donna Leon 2022 American English
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English