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
17125 Monstrous Regiment Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7978 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
4369 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
17125 Cocaine Nights J. G. Ballard 1996 British English
3923 The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah 1999 American English
17125 Trading In The Zone Mark Douglas 2000 American English
4221 A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 1977 American English
10433 She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1992 American English
6921 São Bernardo Graciliano Ramos 1934 Brazilian Portuguese
17125 Underlord Will Wight 2019 American English
17125 Astonishing X Men, Vol. 1 Joss Whedon 2004 American English
17125 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17125 The Paradox Hotel Rob Heart 2022 American English
4576 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin 1994 American English
6791 The True Deceiver Tove Jansson 1982 Finnish Swedish
17125 Psychotherapy And Materialism Unknown Unknown Unknown
2796 The Theory Of Communicative Action Jürgen Habermas 1981 German German
14984 The Thief Megan Whalen Turner 1996 American English
17125 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
14984 The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Sherman Alexie 1993 American English
16854 How The West Was Won Louis L'Amour 1963 American English
1009 Love Story Eric Segal 1970 American English
14984 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
9730 The Hard Way Lee Child 2006 British English
16853 Das Kalte Herz Wilhelm Hauff 1827 German German
1797 Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau 1992 Martinican French
17125 Son Lois Lowry 2012 American English
16852 My Autobiography Charles Chaplin 1964 British English
17125 Permafrost Eva Baltasar 2018 Spanish Catalan
2783 North Of Boston Robert Frost 1914 American English
17125 The Eye Of The Bedlam Bride Matt Dinniman Unknown Unknown
16848 Portrait Of A Lady Henrey James 1881 American English
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
17125 The Dictionary Of Fashionable Nonsense Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom 2004 British English
13285 Swimming Home Deborah Levy 2011 British English
17125 El Ruletista Mircea Cărtărescu 1993 Romanian Romanian
16839 L'étranger / La Peste Albert Camus 1942 French French
5932 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17125 The World Ending Fire Wendell Berry 2017 American English
17125 Maya & Natasha Elyse Durham Unknown Unknown
16845 The Heart Of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
3055 The Invention of Solitude Paul Auster 1982 American English
2097 Mio, My Son Astrid Lindgren 1954 Swedish Swedish
17125 The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren 2002 American English
17125 Convict Conditioning Paul Wade Australian English
17125 The Tower Of Nero Rick Riordan 2020 American English
2985 Friday Michel Tournier 1967 French French
5039 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out Richard P. Feynman 1999 American English
17125 The Blue Between Sky And Water Susan Abulhawa 2015 American English
17125 The Lost World Michael Crichton 1995 American English
17125 Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan 1994 American English
10620 Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 2015 American English
17125 Margery Kempe Robert Glück 1994 Unknown English
17125 The Non Designer's Design Book Robin P. Williams 1994 American English
17125 The Four Agreements Companion Book Don Miguel Ruiz American English
17125 The Complete Wheel Of Time Robert Jordan 1990 American English
17125 Platform Decay Martha Wells 2026 American English
2736 Philosophical Writings Novalis 1798 German German
17125 The Oath Of The Vayuputras Amish Tripathi 2013 Indian English
5317 Eleanor And Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
14984 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Haemin Sunim 2012 Korean Korean
14984 The Fragile Threads Of Power V. E. Schwab 2023 American English
8987 Sunrise On The Reaping Suzanne Collins 2025 Unknown English
17125 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17125 Twisted Lies Ana Huang 2022 Unknown English
11572 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
14984 Born to Run Chris McDougall 2009 American English
8995 Inkheart Cornelia Funke 2003 German German
17125 A Breath Of Life Clarice Lispector 1978 Brazilian Portuguese
14984 The End Of Drum Time Hanna Pylväinen 2023 Unknown English
8493 Paula Isabel Allende 1994 Chilean Spanish
17125 The Informant Kurt Eichenwald 2000 American English
369 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 Austrian German
4088 Silk Alessandro Baricco 1996 Italian Italian
1989 Your Face Tomorrow Javier Marias 2002 Spanish Spanish
17125 Please Kill Me Legs McNeil 1996 American English
17125 The Twelve Justin Cronin 2012 American English
17125 The Last Go Round Ken Ksey American English
17125 The Drawing Of The Three Stephen King 1987 American English
14984 The Warrior's Apprentice Lois McMaster Bujold 1986 American English
17125 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17125 Não Fossem As Sílabas Do Sábado Mariana Salomão Carrara 2020 Brazilian Portuguese
3841 All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg 1952 Italian Italian
17125 Daemon Daniel Suarez 2006 American English
17125 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17125 Its So Easy And Other Lies Duff McKagan 2011 American English
16873 Barn Burning William Faulkner 1939 American English
14122 Principles Ray Dalio 2017 American English
17125 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17125 The 7 1/2 Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 2018 British English
17125 A Heart That Works Rob Delaney 2022 British English
17125 They Both Die At The End Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17125 The Timeless Way Of Building Christopher Alexander 1979 American English
17125 Three Daughters Of Eve Elif Shafak 2016 Turkish English
17125 Tim Ferriss the four hour workweek 2007 Unknown English
915 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
17125 Lightsource Bari Wood 1984 American English
17125 All The Fiends Of Hell Adam Nevill British Unknown
457 The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr 1935 British English
16866 Ninety Two In The Shade Thomas McGuane 1973 American English
14984 My Name Is Yoon Helen Recorvits 2003 American English
17125 The Great And Secret Show Clive Barker 1989 British English
17125 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17125 Call Me Irresistible Susan Elizabeth Phillips American English
17125 In My Time Of Dying Sebastian Junger Unknown Unknown
2140 The Interrogation J. M. G. Le Clezio 1963 French French
17125 The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel 2017 American English
11158 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
16874 The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Prestwick House 1925 American English
6187 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami 2006 Japanese Japanese
2583 Dawn Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
14879 The Ghost And Mrs. Muir R. A. Dick 1945 British English
16871 O Meu Pé De Laranja Lima José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 Brazilian Portuguese
17125 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17125 Doing Time Jodi Taylor 2019 British English
4124 The Black Book Orhan Pamuk 1990 Turkish Turkish
14984 The Woman In Cabin 10 Ruth Ware 2016 British English
17125 Kaiju Matt Dinniman American Unknown
17125 No Easy Day Mark Owen 2012 American English
16861 The Brothers Karmazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1880 Russian Russian