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 Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon 1996 American English
17158 Give Unto Others Donna Leon 2022 American English
16798 Mac Flecknoe, Or, A Satyr Upon The True Blew Protestant Poet, T. S. John Dryden 1682 British English
17158 The Beauty And The Sorrow Peter Englund 2011 Swedish Swedish
16790 Will To Believe And Other Essays In Popular Philosophy William James 1897 American English
17158 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
14232 Midnight In Sicily Peter Robb 1996 Italian English
17158 City Of Thieves David Benioff 2008 American English
17158 Ttfn Lauren Myracle 2006 American English
17158 1 Q84. книга 1. апрель июнь haruki murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
17158 L8r, G8r Lauren Myracle 2007 American English
8052 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
17158 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
5643 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
14985 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
17158 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
2825 The Leg Willem Elsschot 1946 Belgian Dutch
17158 Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010 American English
929 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1943 French French
17158 Against Everything Mark Greif 2016 American English
17158 Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2016 Canadian English
14985 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
17158 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
16793 Potop Henryk Sienkiewicz 1886 Polish Polish
17158 Girls Against God Jenny Hval 2018 Norwegian English
16789 The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
17158 The Pearl That Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi 2014 American English
2303 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
6481 I'm Not Scared Niccolò Ammaniti 2001 Italian Italian
17158 Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom 2020 Unknown English
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
17158 Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino 2022 American English
9542 Binti Nnedi Okorafor 2015 Nigerian English
16803 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
17158 Cursed Fates Caroline Peckham 2022 Unknown English
3304 The Cocktail Party T. S. Eliot 1950 British English
2859 The Dog Of The South Charles Portis 1979 American English
16784 Yama Aleksandr Kuprin 1909 Russian Russian
17158 From Here To The Great Unknown Lisa Marie Presley Unknown Unknown
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
4537 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
17158 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
2152 Conversations Of Goethe With Johann Peter Eckermann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann 1836 German German
1710 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
17158 One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus 2017 American English
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
12077 A Gathering Of Shadows V. E. Schwab 2016 American English
17158 Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson American English
8856 What You Are Looking For Is In The Library Michiko Aoyama 2020 Japanese Japanese
7663 East Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 American English
10825 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
3951 Clotel William Wells Brown 1853 American English
17158 Dead Men's Trousers Irvine Welsh 2018 Scottish English
14985 A Snake Falls To Earth Darcie Little Badger 2021 American English
14210 The Word For World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
12226 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
13941 Clockers Richard Price 1992 American English
17158 Lord Brocktree Brian Jacques 2000 British English
16840 The Adventures And Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 British English
17158 The Desert Spear Peter V. Brett 2010 American English
17158 Elena Knows Claudia Piñeiro 2007 Argentinian Spanish
9240 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
577 Anniversaries Uwe Johnson 1970 German German
17158 The Warded Man Peter V. Brett 2008 English
2019 The Death Ship B. Traven 1926 German German
7643 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
9717 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
8063 The Future Is History Masha Gessen 2017 Russian English
5693 Period Dennis Cooper 1994 American English
1441 The Cantos Ezra Pound 1933 American English
10453 The North Water Ian McGuire 2016 British English
16841 Seelenprobleme Der Gegenwart C.G. Jung 1931 Swiss German
1431 Cakes And Ale Or, The Skeleton In The Cupboard W. Somerset Maugham 1930 British English
1410 Poem of the Cid Unknown 1207 Spanish Old spanish
9114 The Dunwich Horror And Others H. P. Lovecraft 1963 American English
14985 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
17158 My Cat Yugoslavia Pajtim Statovci 2014 Finnish Finnish
660 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 1934 American English
14167 The Secret Of The Old Clock Carolyn Keene 1930 American English
16847 Sobre La Felicidad Seneca 58 Roman Latin
17158 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English
10170 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
17158 How To Survive Your Murder Danielle Valentine 2022 Unknown English
17158 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
14985 The Year Of The Flood Margaret Atwood 2009 Canadian English
2432 The Call Of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1928 American English
17158 The Machinic Unconscious Félix Guattari 1979 French French
17158 War Sebastian Junger 2010 American English
17158 I Hope This Reaches Her In Time r.h. Sin 2017 American English
17158 The Militia House John Milas 2023 Unknown English
17158 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
14985 The Battle For God Karen Armstrong 2000 British English
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
2964 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
2782 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
3454 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link 2005 American English
3040 The Snow Goose Paul Gallico 1941 British English
3013 By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño 2000 Chilean Spanish
17158 Harrow Joy Williams 2021 American English
2502 Rebellion In The Backlands Euclides da Cunha 1902 Brazilian Portuguese
14985 Above Ground Clint Smith 2023 American English
14985 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 2005 American English
10281 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
16848 The Assassins Elia Kazan 1972 American English
2685 Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen Henrik Ibsen 1900 Norwegian Norwegian
17158 The Magic Kingdom Russell Banks 2022 American English
3075 Lunch Poems Frank O'Hara 1964 American English
14985 Earthlings Sayaka Murata 2023 Japanese Japanese
14966 The Man Who Walked Through Time Colin Fletcher 1968 American English
17158 All The Bright Places Larry Niven American Unknown
17158 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17158 The Emperor's Soul Brandon Sanderson 2012 American English
17158 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
16846 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
3605 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
17158 The Alice Network Kate Quinn 2017 American English
17158 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
2628 Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw 1976 Irish English
14985 The Extremes Christopher Priest 1998 British English
17158 Mysticism Simon Critchley 1975 Unknown Unknown