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
14901 Spare Prince Harry 2023 British English
17010 The Hitchhiker's Trilogy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
14901 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
17010 Hellboy, Vol. 1 Mike Mignola 1994 American English
17010 Knight's Shadow Sebastien de Castell 2014 Canadian English
17010 Schismatrix Plus Bruce Sterling 1996 American English
17010 Minha Vó Pede Desculpas Freedrik Backman 2013 Swedish Swedish
17010 The Tsar Of Love And Techno Anthony Marra 2015 American English
17010 Cousins Sally Vickers British English
16812 Ibn Fadlān And The Land Of Darkness Ahmad ibn Fadlān 921 Unknown Arabic
17010 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English
17010 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
14901 City Of Night Birds Juhea Kim 2024 Unknown English
17010 Circling The Sun Paula McLain 2015 American English
7060 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
17010 The Way Of The Superior An David Deida 1997 American English
17010 Popular Mechanics Raymond Carver 1981 American English
16816 Morphine Mikhail Bulgakov 1927 Russian Russian
9219 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
3004 Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson 1988 American English
16846 The Gentle Spirit Fyodor Dostoevsky 1876 Russian Russian
17010 Panenka Rónán Hession 2021 Irish English
2190 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2555 Alamut Vladimir Bartol 1938 Slovenian Slovene
2821 A Manual For Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 2015 American English
9762 Autumn In Peking Boris Vian 1947 French French
17010 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
16825 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
6829 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
2003 Job Joseph Roth 1930 Austrian German
17010 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
3243 A Distant Mirror Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1978 American English
741 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
16811 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
11300 White Oleander Fitch, Janet 1999 American English
17010 Never Ken Follett 2021 British English
17010 Un Lun Dun China Miéville 2007 British English
16807 1984 george orwell 1948 British English
17010 How To Read A Book Monica Wood Unknown Unknown
17010 Story Of Your Life Ted Chiang 1998 American English
13868 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
17010 Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely 2008 American English
17010 The Call Peadar Ó Guilín 2013 Irish English
17010 The Inheritance Cycle Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
3391 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
17010 Learned Optimism Martin E.P. Seligman 1990 American English
4385 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 German German
17010 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 2021 Irish English
14866 Blood Wedding Federico García Lorca 1933 Spanish Spanish
17010 A Simplified Life Emily Ley 2017 American English
16841 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
17010 Gild Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
2554 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 British English
16813 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
3447 The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom 1987 American English
16826 The Other Side Alfred Kubin 1909 Austrian English
17010 Henry Vi, Part 1 William Shakespeare 2000 British English
3469 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
14142 Have Space Suit—Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 American English
17010 Our Money Kirstin Downey American English
3248 All Hallows' Eve Charles Williams 1945 British English
2970 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 American English
17010 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle 2005 Canadian English
17010 The Spy Paulo Coelho 2016 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Not That Bad Roxane Gay 2018 American English
2890 Speculations About Jakob Uwe Johnson 1959 German German
4293 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
2783 By Night Under The Stone Bridge Leo Perutz 1953 Austrian German
17010 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17010 Stalker Lars Kepler 2014 Swedish Swedish
5475 The Ants E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler 1990 American English
17010 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Vol. 1 Singshong 2018 Korean Korean
17010 Hhh H Laurent binet 2010 French French
14901 Emily Wilde's Map Of The Otherlands Heather Fawcett 2024 Unknown English
13656 Poor Charlie's Almanack Charlie Munger 2005 American English
16898 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17010 Man In The Empty Suit Sean Ferrell 2013 American English
13994 The Rosie Effect Graeme Simsion 2014 Australian English
11411 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
2957 The Erasers Alain Robbe-Grillet 1953 French French
17010 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English
16831 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
14901 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
1182 In A Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947 American English
16805 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17010 Reaper's Gale Steven Erikson 2007 Canadian English
17010 All Things Left Wild James Wade 2020 American English
16856 The Anarchist Cookbook William Powell 1971 American English
17010 Cold Harbor Matthew FitzSimmons 2017 American English
373 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
7006 Charm School Nelson DeMille 1988 American English
3457 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
16851 Dievų Miškas Balys Sruoga 1957 Lithuanian Lithuanian
3847 The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 1989 American English
16827 They Went On Together Robert Nathan 1941 American English
17010 The Perfect Run Cédric Durand Unknown Unknown
17010 Jhereg Steven Brust 1983 American English
17010 I Will Find You Harlan Coben 2023 American English
16808 Think And Grow Rich Napoleon Hill 1937 American English
16836 Ride The Tiger Julius Evola 1961 Italian Italian
17010 Lie With Me Philippe Besson 2017 French French
17010 Kroz Carstvo Nauka Milutin Milanković 2004 Serbian Serbian
16837 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17010 Good To Great Jim Collins 2001 American English
17010 Gallant V. E. Schwab 2022 American English
17010 Better, Not Bitter Salaam, Yusef American English
655 A Study of History Arnold J. Toynbee 1934 British English
17010 The Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry 2005 British English
17010 Seven Japanese Tales Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Japanese Japanese
17010 Last Argument Of Kings Joe Abercrombie 2008 British English
17010 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
2233 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
4094 Aegypt John Crowley 1987 American English
14901 Engine Summer John Crowley 1979 American English
14901 The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez 2022 American English
3885 Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine 1997 American English
17010 New Waves Eric Nguyen 2021 Unknown English
17010 The Life Impossible Matt Haig British Unknown
17010 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17010 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English