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
295 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
2109 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
293 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
15610 Slaughterhouse Five, Or The Children's Crusade Ryan North 1969 Unknown English
835 The Art of War Sun Tzu -500 Chinese Classical chinese
1420 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
188 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
1171 My Family And Other Animals Gerald Durrell 1956 British English
480 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 British English
17008 All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten Robert Fulghum 1986 American English
1679 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
917 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
1122 Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 1937 Japanese Japanese
2100 Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey 1968 American English
14028 Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 1969 American English
1066 The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton 1948 American English
327 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
179 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev 1862 Russian Russian
546 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
14165 Pattern Recognition William Gibson 2003 American English
484 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
401 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein 1933 American English
9242 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast 2014 American English
650 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
1159 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987 Japanese Japanese
897 The Poems of Sappho Sappho -569 Greek Ancient greek
353 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
13715 Second Foundation Isaac Asimov 1953 American English
5349 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
570 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
1602 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
987 Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes 1984 British English
3212 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
1265 On Writing Stephen King 2000 American English
674 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
3107 Foster Claire Keegan 2010 Irish English
561 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
1204 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
896 My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
15771 God Emperor Of Dune Frank Herbert 1981 American English
700 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
224 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
1241 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
1883 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006 American English
14662 Children Of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 American English
13514 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman 1997 American English
13713 Foundation And Empire Isaac Asimov 1952 American English
11146 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
145 Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532 French French
1811 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
208 Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greek Greek
14901 Foundation And Earth Isaac Asimov 1986 American English
877 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904 Russian Russian
1981 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks 1985 British English
1115 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
2177 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
750 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1992 American English
239 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
138 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
858 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
1058 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006 American English
310 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1919 American English
14632 Eloise Kay Thompson 1955 American English
833 The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier 1953 Cuban Spanish
246 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
3238 The Thurber Carnival James Thurber 1945 American English
10560 Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton 1934 British English
600 Nine Stories J. D. Salinger 1953 American English
1164 The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary 1944 British English
2882 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
2913 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
313 Peter And Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 Scottish English
1741 Life & Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee 1983 South African English
1243 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
1896 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
2892 Moneyball Michael M. Lewis 2003 American English
134 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
7563 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
3392 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
185 U.S.A. Trilogy John Dos Passos 1930 American English
1829 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler 1982 American English
165 Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 1956 American English
3165 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
5744 Blue Highways William Least Heat-Moon 1982 American English
549 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
6717 Saturday Ian McEwan 2005 British English
1893 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
472 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
1674 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
2875 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
585 Tao Te Ching Lao Tsu -300 Chinese Classical chinese
507 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826 American English
381 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1907 American English
1772 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1209 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
640 Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 British English
6832 The Big Short Michael M. Lewis 2010 American English
690 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1974 British English
405 De Rerum Natura Lucretius 55 Roman Latin
2487 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 1993 American English
651 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
14039 Caps For Sale Esphyr Slobodkina 1940 American English
2132 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
637 Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke 1790 British English
4279 Boy's Life Robert R. McCammon 1991 American English
1321 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
662 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English
806 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
14901 When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi David Maranis 1999 American English
10051 The Mirror & The Light Hilary Mantel 2020 British English
62 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
803 The Vegetarian Han Kang 2007 Korean Korean
1380 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
874 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000 American English
234 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
416 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
787 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
14165 The Passage Justin Cronin 2010 American English