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
883 Homo Faber Max Frisch 1957 Swiss German
14866 Blood Wedding Federico García Lorca 1933 Spanish Spanish
17010 Not That Bad Roxane Gay 2018 American English
14798 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
17010 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
14901 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
2703 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
2821 A Manual For Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 2015 American English
1301 The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck 1978 American English
11411 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
13690 Mindset Carol S. Dweck 2006 American English
17010 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17010 The Camp Of The Saints Jean Raspail 1975 French French
16812 Ibn Fadlān And The Land Of Darkness Ahmad ibn Fadlān 921 Unknown Arabic
16811 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
14901 Chasm City Alastair Reynolds 2001 British English
2272 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
16864 In My Father's House James Street 1941 American English
9968 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English
5577 One For The Money Janet Evanovich 1994 American English
17010 Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver 2018 American English
17010 A Simplified Life Emily Ley 2017 American English
13763 The Bad Girl Mario Vargas Llosa 2006 Peruvian Spanish
7906 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
17010 The Call Peadar Ó Guilín 2013 Irish English
17010 Just Like You Nick Hornby 2020 British English
17010 The Inheritance Cycle Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
14901 The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 2002 German German
3847 The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 1989 American English
16807 1984 george orwell 1948 British English
16819 The Masque Of The Red Death Edgar Allan Poe 1842 American English
16818 The Devils Of Loudun Aldous Huxley 1952 British English
3243 A Distant Mirror Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1978 American English
17010 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
16851 Dievų Miškas Balys Sruoga 1957 Lithuanian Lithuanian
2233 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
1181 Mr Norris Changes Trains Christopher Isherwood 1935 British English
16841 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
3469 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
17010 Seven Japanese Tales Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Japanese Japanese
741 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
11300 White Oleander Fitch, Janet 1999 American English
13868 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
5899 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
16842 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
5975 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
17010 Blue Lily, Lily Blue Maggie Stiefvater 2014 American English
16828 The Cay Theodore Taylor 1969 American English
14901 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
17010 Schismatrix Plus Bruce Sterling 1996 American English
17010 Jhereg Steven Brust 1983 American English
4385 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 German German
17010 Heads You Win Jeffrey Archer 2018 British English
3004 Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson 1988 American English
17010 The Gate Of The Feral Gods Matt Dinniman 2022 American English
2783 By Night Under The Stone Bridge Leo Perutz 1953 Austrian German
3457 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
7006 Charm School Nelson DeMille 1988 American English
17010 Desiring God John Piper 1986 American English
16850 El Eternauta H. G. Oesterheld 1957 Argentinian Spanish
14165 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
9219 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
17010 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
14800 Aura Carlos Fuentes 1962 Mexican Spanish
2730 A Violent Life Pier Paolo Pasolini 1959 Italian Italian
16855 Antes Do Baile Verde Lygia Fagundes tellles 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Perfectly Ordinary People Nick Alexander 2023 British English
17010 The Tsar Of Love And Techno Anthony Marra 2015 American English
13994 The Rosie Effect Graeme Simsion 2014 Australian English
16898 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17010 The Heroes Joe Abercrombie 2011 British English
373 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
2739 The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge 1946 British English
14901 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
16831 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
16840 The Book Of Thoth Aleister Crowley 1944 British English
6829 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
14142 Have Space Suit—Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 American English
17010 Gild Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
3391 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
16834 Buddha Osamu Tezuka 1972 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Creative Act Rick Rubin 2023 American English
2988 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
17010 The Science Of Last Things Ellen Wayland-Smith American Unknown
14901 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
2970 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 American English
16849 The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever 1964 American English
16848 Elevul Dima Dintr A Vii A Mihail Drumeş 1946 Romanian Romanian
17010 Carry On Rainbow Rowell 2015 American English
16845 How To Stop Worrying & Start Living Dale Carnegie 1948 American English
17010 I Kissed Shara Wheeler Casey McQuiston 2022 American English
17010 Ireland In The Medieval World, Ad400–1000 Bhreathnach, Edel Irish English
17010 薫る花は凛と咲く 5 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
17010 Eyes Of Horus Joan Grant 1980 British English
2381 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
17010 The First Signs Genevieve von Petzinger 2016 Canadian English
17010 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English
17010 The Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry 2005 British English
16853 The Murder On The Links Agatha Christie 1923 British English
10399 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
5721 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 2001 Irish English
17010 Reaper Will Wight 2021 American English
2673 Anne Of The Island L. M. Montgomery 1915 Canadian English
16829 Von Der Kürze Des Lebens · Vom Glücklichen Leben Seneca -49 Roman Latin
1182 In A Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947 American English
10926 Surprised By Hope N.T. Wright 2008 British English
17010 The Wishing Spell Chris Colfer 2012 American English
17010 A Clean Kill In Tokyo Riane Eisler Unknown Unknown
1044 The Egoist George Meredith 1879 British English
17010 Panenka Rónán Hession 2021 Irish English
5475 The Ants E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler 1990 American English
16843 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
10973 In The Lake Of The Woods Tim O'Brien 1994 American English
17010 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
16844 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
7196 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
2190 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
7060 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
16863 King Henry Vi, Part 2 William Shakespeare 1594 British English
17010 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English