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
17010 Better, Not Bitter Salaam, Yusef American English
16857 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17010 Gallant V. E. Schwab 2022 American English
17010 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English
3004 Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson 1988 American English
17010 The Heroes Joe Abercrombie 2011 British English
1330 Barefoot Zaharia Stancu 1948 Romanian Romanian
2783 By Night Under The Stone Bridge Leo Perutz 1953 Austrian German
14901 The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez 2022 American English
17010 Curious Ian Leslie 2014 British English
3458 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
17010 The Life Impossible Matt Haig British Unknown
7008 Charm School Nelson DeMille 1988 American English
17010 Ireland In The Medieval World, Ad400–1000 Bhreathnach, Edel Irish English
1182 In A Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947 American English
17010 Hellboy, Vol. 1 Mike Mignola 1994 American English
16858 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17010 Nothing But The Rain Salman, Naomi 2023 Unknown English
9686 Address Unknown Kathrine Kressmann Taylor 1938 American English
17010 Just Like You Nick Hornby 2020 British English
17010 Learned Optimism Martin E.P. Seligman 1990 American English
16860 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17010 The Course Of Love Alain de Botton 2016 British English
17010 Heads You Win Jeffrey Archer 2018 British English
17010 薫る花は凛と咲く 5 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
4386 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 German German
2272 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
7683 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
17010 A Dowry Of Blood S.T. Gibson 2021 Unknown English
17010 Blink Malcolm Gladwell 2005 Canadian English
6293 Lord Of The Barnyard Tristan Egolf 1998 American English
17010 The Jaunt Stephen King 1981 American English
16861 The Twilight Of The Idols Nietzsche 1889 German German
17010 Alone With You In The Ether Olivie Blake 2022 Unknown English
17010 Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993 American English
17010 Doctor Who Russell T. Davies 1996 British Unknown
1665 Zami Audre Lorde 1982 American English
17010 Lord Of The Mysteries Volume 1 Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2018 Chinese Chinese
17010 Grandmothers Sally Vickers British English
17010 The Anonymous Anonymous, The Unknown Unknown
17010 Breath James Nestor 2020 American English
17010 How To Talk To Anyone Leil Lowndes 2003 American English
14888 All That Fall Samuel Beckett 1957 Irish English
1276 The Feynman Lectures on Physics Richard P. Feynman 1963 American English
17010 Before They Are Hanged Joe Abercrombie 2007 British English
6503 Incest Christine Angot 1999 French French
17010 El Primer Capità Enric Calpena i Ollé Catalan Catalan
17010 Franz Kafka's The Castle David Fishelson 1999 Unknown English
2244 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
17010 Skin In The Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2018 American English
8739 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
17010 The Ballad Of Never After Stephanie Garber 2022 American English
9112 Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher 2010 British English
17010 Code To Zero Ken Follett 2000 British English
17010 Failing Forward John C. Maxwell 2000 American English
13688 Heir To The Empire Timothy Zahn 1991 American English
14165 Last Night At The Telegraph Club Malinda Lo 2021 American English
10167 Winter Journal Paul Auster 2012 American English
16863 Les Miserables (New Edition) (Paperback Blue Bird Kodansha) Les Miserables Unknown 1862 French French
8412 Those Across The River Christopher Buehlman 2011 American English
14901 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
17010 The Best Of Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe American English
2652 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1965 American English
16864 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17010 El Vago Laurence Gonzales 1983 American English
13258 Stjärnor Utan Svindel Louise Boije af Gennäs 1996 Swedish Swedish
17010 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
17010 Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris 2013 American English
16865 The Origins And History Of Consciousness Carl Jung, Franz Neumann, Helen R. Hull 1949 German German
7655 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
17010 Bittersweet Susan Cain 2022 American English
17010 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
16866 Endurance Alfred Lansing 1959 American English
17010 Worlds Of Exile And Illusion Ursula K. Le Guin 1996 American English
3401 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
14901 No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 2007 American English
14801 Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British English
16867 Crooked House Agatha Christie 1949 British English
17010 Envy Sandra Brown 2001 American English
17010 Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 2020 American English
16868 The Seed Tarjei Vesaas 1940 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
14165 Doubt John Patrick Shanley 2004 American English
16869 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17010 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17010 Talking At Night Claire Daverley Unknown Unknown
16870 Parmenides Plato -369 Greek Ancient greek
14256 All The Devils Are Here Louise Penny 2020 Canadian English
17010 State Of Exception Giorgio Agamben 2003 Italian Italian
17010 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17010 The Stranger Times Caimh McDonnell 2021 British English
17010 Third Wave Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
1493 Eye Of The Needle Ken Follett 1978 British English
4780 Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1840 American English
17010 Le Chameau Sauvage Philippe Jaenada 1997 French French
3195 The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley 1945 British English
17010 Orthodoxy And The Kingdom Of Satan Spyridon Bailey Unknown English
17010 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17010 Allow Me To Introduce Lon Milo DuQuette American English
17010 Sur Le Bord De La Rivière Piedra, Je Me Suis Assise Et J'ai Pleuré Paulo Coelho 1994 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky 2024 British English
17010 Pastoral Americana Philip Roth 1997 American English
17010 Love Her Wild Atticus 2017 Canadian English
16871 Domnisoara Christina. Sarpele Mircea Eliade 1936 Romanian Romanian
11854 Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2021 French French
17010 Dear Church lenny duncan 2019 American English
14869 The Tain Thomas Kinsella 1969 Irish English
14901 Explicar El Mundo Steven Weinberg 2015 English
17010 The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating Renee Raudman, Elisabeth Tova Bailey 2010 American English
17010 Source Code Bill Gates 2025 Unknown Unknown
17010 Turn Right At Machu Picchu Mark Adams 2011 American English
14128 Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens 1841 British English
9221 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
2265 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen 1890 Norwegian Norwegian
16873 The Fate Of A Man And Early Stories Mikhail Sholokhov 1967 Russian Russian
1304 Collected Poems Stéphane Mallarmé 1887 French French
17010 I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe 2004 American English
7669 Startide Rising David Brin 1983 American English
14901 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
3286 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French