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 The Emperor's Soul Brandon Sanderson 2012 American English
16836 The Social Animal Twelfth Edition Elliot Aronson 1972 American English
706 The Skin Curzio Malaparte 1949 Italian Italian
17158 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
14985 Translations Brian Friel 1980 Irish English
737 The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1913 American English
17158 Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson 2000 Canadian English
8587 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
16837 The Assassins Elia Kazan 1972 American English
17158 The Mark Of Athena Rick Riordan 2012 American English
14962 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
17158 Maya Angelou Maya Angelou 1994 American Unknown
17158 How To Stay Married Harrison Scott Key 2023 American English
3039 The Snow Goose Paul Gallico 1941 British English
2628 Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw 1976 Irish English
14210 The Word For World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
3012 By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño 2000 Chilean Spanish
17158 Harrow Joy Williams 2021 American English
17158 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 Mircea Eliade 1982 Romanian French
14985 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
16844 Fenitschka/Deviations Dorothee Krahn 1898 German English
17158 Maus Ii Art Spiegelman 1992 American English
17158 Η θεραπεία του Σοπενάουερ Irvin D. Yalom 2005 English
10281 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
7807 Lick Kylie Scott 2013 Australian English
14985 Above Ground Clint Smith 2023 American English
14985 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 2005 American English
10170 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
16845 Seelenprobleme Der Gegenwart C.G. Jung 1931 Swiss German
17158 The Molecule Of More Daniel E. Lieberman 2018 American English
17158 Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson American English
14985 Lioness Rampant Tamora Pierce 1988 American English
16840 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17158 How To Survive Your Murder Danielle Valentine 2022 Unknown English
14967 The Man Who Walked Through Time Colin Fletcher 1968 American English
17158 Teaching To Transgress bell hooks 1994 American English
17158 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17158 Dead Men's Trousers Irvine Welsh 2018 Scottish English
14985 The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Robert E. Howard 2003 American English
17158 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
14985 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 1987 Chilean Spanish
8856 What You Are Looking For Is In The Library Michiko Aoyama 2020 Japanese Japanese
3074 Lunch Poems Frank O'Hara 1964 American English
17158 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover C. L. Moore 1990 Unknown English
17158 The Warded Man Peter V. Brett 2008 English
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
17158 The Nelson De Mille Collection Nelson DeMille 2003 American English
2963 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
2782 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
17158 The Desert Spear Peter V. Brett 2010 American English
3951 Clotel William Wells Brown 1853 American English
17158 Rosalie Lightning Tom Hart 2016 American English
10453 The North Water Ian McGuire 2016 British English
2432 The Call Of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1928 American English
17158 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
11442 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
16847 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
16838 The Adventures And Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 British English
16846 A Shilling For Candles Josephine Tey 1953 British English
9717 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
1410 Poem of the Cid Unknown 1207 Spanish Old spanish
17158 The Unthinkable Amanda Ripley 2008 American English
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
14985 A Snake Falls To Earth Darcie Little Badger 2021 American English
14985 The Extremes Christopher Priest 1998 British English
7663 East Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 American English
17158 Mysticism Simon Critchley 1975 Unknown Unknown
5693 Period Dennis Cooper 1994 American English
13941 Clockers Richard Price 1992 American English
7572 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
17158 The Blood Of Olympus Rick Riordan 2014 American English
17158 Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson 2002 American English
14985 Blood, Bones, And Butter Gabrielle Hamilton 2011 American English
373 The Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 German German
2311 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 1989 British English
16848 Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl 1972 British English
16860 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
5086 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
14985 The Sea Of Monsters Rick Riordan 2006 American English
9959 Asylum Patrick McGrath 1996 British English
16865 Cup Of Gold John Steinbeck 1929 American English
14985 The Jonah Kit Ian Watson 1975 British English
16855 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17158 The Sicilian Mario Puzo 1984 American English
17158 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Matt Dinniman 2020 Unknown English
879 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 1950 British English
17158 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17158 No Two Persons Erica Bauermeister 2023 Unknown English
4370 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
14985 Can't Stop Won't Stop Jeff Chang 2005 American English
14985 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
17158 The Crippled God Steven Erikson 2011 Canadian English
17158 The Secret Of The Nagas Amish Tripathi 2011 Indian English
4797 The Fish Can Sing Halldor Laxness 1957 Icelandic Icelandic
17158 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17158 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
17158 The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr 2002 American English
17158 The Brendan Voyage Severin, Tim 1978 Irish English
14232 Excession Iain Banks 1996 British English
16854 Revolt Against The Modern World Julius Evola 1934 Italian Italian
5334 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
6291 Out Of My Mind Sharon M. Draper 2010 American English
17158 Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett 1998 British English
5091 Past Caring Robert Goddard 1986 British English
2431 The Physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 Swiss German
17158 The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry John Mark Comer 2019 American English
3854 Breath Tim Winton 2008 Australian English
14985 In The Hand Of The Goddess Tamora Pierce 1984 American English
2604 The Wars Timothy Findley 1977 Canadian English
14985 The Appeal Janice Hallett 2021 British English
2783 Mountain Interval Robert Frost 1916 American English
17158 The Magician's Land Lev Grossman 2014 American English
17158 The Unseen World Liz Moore 2016 American English
14671 Lightlark Alex Aster 2022 American English
17158 His Majesty's Dragon Naomi Novik 2006 English
14985 The Raven Tower Ann Leckie 2019 American English
9165 84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff 1970 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
2826 Bint F. Bordewijk 1934 Dutch Dutch
2293 Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 1991 American English