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
17120 The Latest Answers To The Oldest Questions Nicholas Fearn 2007 British English
4125 The Black Book Orhan Pamuk 1990 Turkish Turkish
915 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
17120 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17120 The Abstainer Ian McGuire 2020 British English
16877 Iliad & Odyssey Homer -749 Greek Ancient greek (homeric greek)
17120 Evidence Based Physical Diagnosis Steven McGee MD 2001 Unknown English
16882 Ninety Two In The Shade Thomas McGuane 1973 American English
2492 All Souls Javier Marias 1989 Spanish Spanish
457 The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr 1935 British English
14984 Ru Kim Thuy 2009 Canadian French
3922 She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith 1773 British English
17120 The 7 1/2 Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton 2018 British English
764 Mother Maxim Gorky 1906 Russian Russian
16864 Reinações De Narizinho Monteiro Lobato 1920 Brazilian Portuguese
14984 Icebreaker Hannah Grace 2022 Unknown English
16863 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
14984 The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson 2009 British English
17120 Sea Of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick 2003 American English
13815 The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande 2009 American English
5354 New Hampshire Robert Frost 1923 American English
17120 No Easy Day Mark Owen 2012 American English
17120 Mornings In Jenin Susan Abulhawa 2010 American English
1317 To Each His Own Leonardo Sciascia 1966 Italian Italian
17120 Greenlights Matthew McConaughey 2020 American English
16883 The Alienist Machado de Assis 1882 Brazilian Portuguese
16887 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
14984 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 Emil Ferris 2017 American English
5700 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
1044 A Ghost at Noon Alberto Moravia 1954 Italian Italian
17120 The Galaxy, And The Ground Within Becky Chambers 2021 American English
17120 When The Stars Go Dark Paula McLain 2021 American English
17120 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
14122 Principles Ray Dalio 2017 American English
17120 American Predator Maureen Callahan 2019 American English
2784 Märchenalmanach Auf Das Jahr 1828 Wilhelm Hauff 1827 German German
2625 The Captain's Daughter Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
17120 They Both Die At The End Adam Silvera 2017 American English
14984 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
2140 The Interrogation J. M. G. Le Clezio 1963 French French
10620 Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 2015 American English
17120 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
4536 Turkish Delight Jan Wolkers 1969 Dutch Dutch
16866 Barn Burning William Faulkner 1939 American English
6895 O Guarani José de Alencar 1857 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 The Secret Book Of Kings Yokhi Brandes 2008 Israeli Hebrew
17120 The Great And Secret Show Clive Barker 1989 British English
16872 O Meu Pé De Laranja Lima José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 All The Fiends Of Hell Adam Nevill British Unknown
14984 A Marvellous Light Freya Marske 2021 British English
16861 Poemas Sociales, De Guerra Y De Muerte Miguel Hernández 1937 Spanish Spanish
17120 ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン 1 Kana Akatsuki 2015 Japanese Japanese
9051 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
17120 Into Africa Martin Dugard 2003 American English
16862 The Brothers Karmazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1880 Russian Russian
17120 Troya Stephen Fry 2020 British English
17120 The Timeless Way Of Building Christopher Alexander 1979 American English
17120 Lying Sam Harris 2011 American English
8978 Playground Richard Powers 2024 Unknown Unknown
4116 Why Did I Ever? Mary Robison 2001 American English
17120 Aresenic And Adobo Mia P. Manansala 2021 American English
16867 As A Man Thinketh James Allen 1903 British English
17120 I'm Feeling Lucky Douglas Edwards 2011 American English
17120 Rytual Chloe Wilson 2025 Unknown Unknown
17120 Das Lächeln Der Fortuna Rebecca Gablé 1997 German German
17120 The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore 2010 American English
14984 The All Of It Jeannette Haien 1986 American English
17120 Ratner's Star Don DeLillo 1976 American English
17120 The Essential Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 1988 American English
17120 The Morning Star Karl Ove Knausgård 2020 Norwegian Norwegian
7106 Technopoly Neil Postman 1992 American English
17120 The Lesser Dead Christopher Buehlman 2014 American English
17120 Doing Time Jodi Taylor 2019 British English
7742 Flesh David Szalay 2025 British English
9780 Seeing José Saramago 2004 Portuguese Portuguese
17120 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17120 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
16860 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
8667 The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope 1712 British English
17120 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17120 A Heart That Works Rob Delaney 2022 British English
7897 The Night Watch Sarah Waters 2006 British English
3246 The Transcendent Unity Of Religions Frithjof Schuon 1953 French French
16881 Kyra Kyralina Panaït Istrati 1923 Romanian Romanian
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
17120 Darkfever Karen Marie Moning 2006 American English
14984 Vida Marge Piercy 1979 American English
17120 Dragonsong Anne McCaffrey 1976 American English
14984 The Hero Of Ages Brandon Sanderson 2008 American English
17120 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17120 The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan 2008 American English
17120 But Beautiful Geoff Dyer 1991 British English
8988 Tinkers Paul Harding 2009 American English
14984 Humble Pi Matt Parker 2019 British English
16870 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17120 Digital Minimalism Cal Newport 2019 American English
1114 Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor 1955 American English
17120 The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins Unknown Unknown
14984 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
16868 Taran Wanderer Lloyd Alexander 1967 American English
17120 Steal Like An Artist Austin Kleon 2012 American English
5258 Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler 1989 Canadian English
14970 The Stepford Wives Ira Levin 1972 American English
16859 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
2716 The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell 1975 American English
13553 The Power Of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1952 American English
14881 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown 890 Unknown Old english
17120 Women, Art, And Society Whitney Chadwick 1990 American English
11312 Homeseeking Karissa Chen 2025 Unknown English
8705 What We Can Know Ian McEwan 2025 Unknown English
17120 The Wander Society Keri Smith 2016 Canadian English
14984 Alex Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson 2013 British English
1604 Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope 1869 British English
2442 The Ascent Of Rum Doodle W. E. Bowman 1956 British English
17120 Executive Orders Tom Clancy 1996 American English
17120 Wrong Place Wrong Time Gillian McAllister 2022 British English
2583 Dawn Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
9883 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
10089 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella 2000 British English
11158 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English