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
17035 The Conspiracy Against The Human Race Thomas Ligotti 2010 American English
3217 Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche 1908 German German
17035 The Sicilian Mario Puzo 1984 American English
17035 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17035 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
1168 The Diaries Franz Kafka 1948 Czech German
2307 Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 1989 British English
14925 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange 1975 American English
14925 The Secret Lives Of Colour Kassia St. Clair 2016 British English
17035 Gerta Tučková, Kateřina 2020 Czech Czech
17035 Memorial Alice Oswald 2011 British English
16728 Eternaut 1969 (The Alberto Breccia Library) H. G. Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia 1969 Argentinian Spanish
17035 The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2017 Mexican English
12208 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
7564 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
10913 Trilogy Jon Fosse 2014 Norwegian Norwegian
720 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1795 German German
17035 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
16737 Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl 1972 British English
17035 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
16729 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17035 The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry John Mark Comer 2019 American English
17035 The Magician's Land Lev Grossman 2014 American English
16736 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17035 In The Name Of The Family Sarah Dunant 2017 British English
2283 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English
7972 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
17035 Aberration In The Heartland Of The Real Wendy S. Painting 2015 Unknown English
17035 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat 2017 American English
17035 The Mongol Empire Peter Ludwig Brent 1976 British English
8765 Eroticism Georges Bataille 1957 French French
11553 Ghostwritten David Mitchell 1999 British English
1498 Three Comrades Erich Maria Remarque 1936 German German
17035 Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett 1998 British English
17035 Reincarnation Blues Michael Poore 2017 American English
14925 Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman 2015 American English
878 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 1950 British English
16734 Cup Of Gold John Steinbeck 1929 American English
14616 Lightlark Alex Aster 2022 American English
16735 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
17035 The Blood Of Olympus Rick Riordan 2014 American English
3851 Breath Tim Winton 2008 Australian English
17035 Vinegar Girl Anne Tyler 2016 American English
10866 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
17035 His Majesty's Dragon Naomi Novik 2006 English
14925 The Raven Tower Ann Leckie 2019 American English
5082 Past Caring Robert Goddard 1986 British English
2780 Mountain Interval Robert Frost 1916 American English
2819 Bint F. Bordewijk 1934 Dutch Dutch
17035 Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson 2002 American English
17035 No Two Persons Erica Bauermeister 2023 Unknown English
16741 The Silent Cry Kenzaburō Ōe 1967 Japanese Japanese
17035 Christ Is Recrucified Kazantzakis Greek Greek
17035 Maus Ii Art Spiegelman 1992 American English
17035 Pay It Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde 1999 American English
17035 The Complete Malazan Book Of The Fallen Steven Erikson Canadian English
2289 Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 1991 American English
2602 The Wars Timothy Findley 1977 Canadian English
14925 In The Hand Of The Goddess Tamora Pierce 1984 American English
4789 The Fish Can Sing Halldor Laxness 1957 Icelandic Icelandic
736 The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1913 American English
17035 Namíbia, Não! Aldri Anunciação 2012 Brazilian Portuguese
6360 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 British English
1912 Mencius Mencius -300 Chinese Classical chinese
14925 Can't Stop Won't Stop Jeff Chang 2005 American English
9948 Asylum Patrick McGrath 1996 British English
17035 Història D'un Piano Ramon Gener Spanish Catalan
2853 Jamila Chinghiz Aitmatov 1958 Kyrgyz Kyrgyz
17035 Soulsmith Will Wight 2016 American English
17035 The Bear And The Dragon Tom Clancy 2000 American English
17035 The Art Of Fiction David Lodge 1992 British English
17035 Check & Mate Ali Hazelwood 2023 Unknown English
2181 No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez 1961 Colombian Spanish
17035 Cleopatra And Frankenstein Coco Mellors 2022 Unknown English
17035 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian
4497 Parallel Stories Péter Nádas 2005 Hungarian Hungarian
5893 Poems Of George Darley George Darley 1840 Irish English
14190 Jerusalem Jez Butterworth 2009 British English
17035 I Am Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne 2009 British English
17035 Bleach, Vol. 1 Tite Kubo 2001 Japanese Japanese
14925 They Called Us Enemy George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott 2019 American English
17035 The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr 2002 American English
17035 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Hank Green 2020 American English
2874 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1825 British English
16738 Precious Bane Mary Webb 1924 British English
17035 Thanks A Thousand A. J. Jacobs 2018 American English
17035 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17035 Saltatempo Stefano Benni 2001 Italian Italian
17035 Y The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan 2002 American English
9155 84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff 1970 American English
17035 Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton 2004 British English
17035 The Crippled God Steven Erikson 2011 Canadian English
4713 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 Mircea Eliade 1985 French French
17035 The Long Walk Stephen King 1979 American English
14190 Excession Iain Banks 1996 British English
17035 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
8593 A Fever In The Heartland Timothy Egan 2023 American English
17035 The Unseen World Liz Moore 2016 American English
17035 Memories Of Ice Steven Erikson 2001 Canadian English
9825 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
17035 Made For Love Alissa Nutting 2017 American English
14925 The Appeal Janice Hallett 2021 British English
16725 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17035 The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich 2013 American English
14190 The Carpet Makers Andreas Eschbach 1995 German German
4289 What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell 2016 American English
17035 Vagabond Volume 1 Takehiko Inoue 1998 Japanese Japanese
17035 Clarifying The Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual For Mahamudra Dakpo Tashi Namgyal 2004 Tibetan English
10487 Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera 2009 Mexican Spanish
17035 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
660 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 1934 American English
17035 The Secret Of The Nagas Amish Tripathi 2011 Indian English
6256 At The Existentialist Café Sarah Bakewell 2016 British English
17035 O Caso Alaska Sanders Joël Dicker 2022 Swiss French
17035 Penance Eliza Clark Unknown Unknown
11998 Hygiene And The Assassin Amélie Nothomb 1992 Belgian French
14925 Blood, Bones, And Butter Gabrielle Hamilton 2011 American English
14925 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
17035 Animal Factory Edward Bunker 1977 American English
1846 The Little Sister Raymond Chandler 1949 American English