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
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
5361 The Portable Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker 1944 American English
547 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
1265 On Writing Stephen King 2000 American English
292 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
2116 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
15728 Slaughterhouse Five, Or The Children's Crusade Ryan North 1969 Unknown English
835 The Art of War Sun Tzu -500 Chinese Classical chinese
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
14089 Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 1969 American English
189 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
1172 My Family And Other Animals Gerald Durrell 1956 British English
322 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
2107 Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey 1968 American English
207 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greek Greek
1680 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
480 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 British English
1160 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987 Japanese Japanese
17158 All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten Robert Fulghum 1986 American English
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
1092 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 1937 Japanese Japanese
1068 The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton 1948 American English
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
179 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 1862 Russian Russian
14232 Pattern Recognition William Gibson 2003 American English
395 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein 1933 American English
484 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
9261 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast 2014 American English
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
900 The Poems of Sappho Sappho -569 Greek Ancient greek
5359 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
13766 Second Foundation Isaac Asimov 1953 American English
354 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
562 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
1606 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
898 My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
3219 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
988 Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes 1984 British English
3115 Foster Claire Keegan 2010 Irish English
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
225 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
701 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
15896 God Emperor Of Dune Frank Herbert 1981 American English
1243 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
1884 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006 American English
14750 Children Of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 American English
13560 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman 1997 American English
13763 Foundation And Empire Isaac Asimov 1952 American English
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
11177 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
14985 Foundation And Earth Isaac Asimov 1986 American English
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
2189 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
877 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904 Russian Russian
1987 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks 1985 British English
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
585 Tao Te Ching Lao Tsu -300 Chinese Classical chinese
311 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1919 American English
1060 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006 American English
14715 Eloise Kay Thompson 1955 American English
3245 The Thurber Carnival James Thurber 1945 American English
247 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
833 The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier 1953 Cuban Spanish
10589 Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton 1934 British English
303 Peter And Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 Scottish English
1165 The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary 1944 British English
600 Nine Stories J. D. Salinger 1953 American English
2890 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
2920 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
1743 Life & Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee 1983 South African English
3399 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
1245 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
788 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
1898 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
7580 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
2900 Moneyball Michael M. Lewis 2003 American English
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
185 U.S.A. Trilogy John Dos Passos 1930 American English
1830 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler 1982 American English
167 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 1956 American English
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
5756 Blue Highways William Least Heat-Moon 1982 American English
3172 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
6730 Saturday Ian McEwan 2005 British English
1895 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
462 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
2883 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
507 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826 American English
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
1675 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
377 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1907 American English
6843 The Big Short Michael M. Lewis 2010 American English
1776 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
14101 Caps For Sale Esphyr Slobodkina 1940 American English
405 De Rerum Natura Lucretius 55 Roman Latin
289 A Room With a View E. M. Forster 1908 British English
633 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1974 British English
2493 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 1993 American English
332 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748 British English
981 It Stephen King 1986 American English
2108 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
2122 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
639 Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke 1790 British English
4285 Boy's Life Robert R. McCammon 1991 American English
1323 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
807 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
663 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English
14985 When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi David Maranis 1999 American English
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
855 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English