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
884 Homo Faber Max Frisch 1957 Swiss German
17152 Ireland In The Medieval World, Ad400–1000 Bhreathnach, Edel Irish English
17152 The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer F.H. Cornish Unknown Unknown
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
17152 Un Lun Dun China Miéville 2007 British English
17152 The Perfect Run Cédric Durand Unknown Unknown
2827 A Manual For Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 2015 American English
1184 In A Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947 American English
14051 The Rosie Effect Graeme Simsion 2014 Australian English
2787 By Night Under The Stone Bridge Leo Perutz 1953 Austrian German
16968 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
7018 Charm School Nelson DeMille 1988 American English
14985 The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez 2022 American English
3460 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
17152 Just Like You Nick Hornby 2020 British English
17152 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
375 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
17152 Royal Assassin Robin Hobb 1997 American English
17152 The Life Impossible Matt Haig British Unknown
2051 Momo Michael Ende 1973 German German
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
16970 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
17152 Endure Alex Hutchinson 2018 Canadian English
16954 The Cay Theodore Taylor 1969 American English
17152 Credence Penelope Douglas 2020 American English
17152 Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman 2017 British English
17152 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
14985 The Plot Jean Hanff Korelitz 2021 American English
2008 Job Joseph Roth 1930 Austrian German
9985 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English
17152 Last Argument Of Kings Joe Abercrombie 2008 British English
16964 Antes Do Baile Verde Lygia Fagundes tellles 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
755 The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall 1928 British English
9779 Autumn In Peking Boris Vian 1947 French French
1183 Mr Norris Changes Trains Christopher Isherwood 1935 British English
17152 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
17152 Perfectly Ordinary People Nick Alexander 2023 British English
16969 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
17152 New Waves Eric Nguyen 2021 Unknown English
16999 1984 george orwell 1948 British English
8435 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
2122 The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart 1970 British English
16972 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17152 Never Ken Follett 2021 British English
4391 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 German German
5909 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
17152 The Gray House Mariam Petrosyan 2009 Armenian Russian
2202 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
17152 The Tsar Of Love And Techno Anthony Marra 2015 American English
17152 The Wishing Spell Chris Colfer 2012 American English
2977 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 American English
17152 Cousins Sally Vickers British English
14888 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
16997 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
5484 The Ants E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler 1990 American English
3472 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
17152 First Things First Stephen R. Covey 1994 American English
17152 Panenka Rónán Hession 2021 Irish English
17152 Beach Music Pat Conroy 1995 American English
3853 The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 1989 American English
14985 The Dervish House Ian McDonald 2010 British English
17152 The Book Of Koli M. R. Carey 2020 British English
3254 All Hallows' Eve Charles Williams 1945 British English
742 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
11331 White Oleander Fitch, Janet 1999 American English
4300 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
17152 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
3011 Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson 1988 American English
13921 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
17152 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17152 Man In The Empty Suit Sean Ferrell 2013 American English
2897 Speculations About Jakob Uwe Johnson 1959 German German
17152 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
16990 Astoria Washington Irving 1835 American English
17152 The Handmaid's Tale Renée Nault 1985 Unknown English
17152 Hellboy, Vol. 1 Mike Mignola 1994 American English
17152 How To Read A Book Monica Wood Unknown Unknown
7051 The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt 2011 Canadian English
6840 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
17152 El Corazón Helado Almudena Grandes 2007 Spanish Spanish
14208 Have Space Suit—Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 American English
16991 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17152 Gild Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
16952 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
17152 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English
17152 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
3397 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
1333 Barefoot Zaharia Stancu 1948 Romanian Romanian
17152 Schismatrix Plus Bruce Sterling 1996 American English
17152 Reaper Will Wight 2021 American English
17152 A Clean Kill In Tokyo Riane Eisler Unknown Unknown
1047 The Egoist George Meredith 1879 British English
17152 Jhereg Steven Brust 1983 American English
17152 Hhh H Laurent binet 2010 French French
17152 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17152 The Princes Of Ireland Edward Rutherfurd 2004 British English
9237 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
2280 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
14985 Spare Prince Harry 2023 British English
17152 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
16976 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
14887 Black Spring Henry Miller 1936 American English
17152 Landscape Painted With Tea Milorad Pavic 1988 Serbian Serbian
8457 Penpal Dathan Kahn Auerbach 2012 American English
17152 Gallant V. E. Schwab 2022 American English
17152 Better, Not Bitter Salaam, Yusef American English
17152 Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver 2018 American English
17152 The Gate Of The Feral Gods Matt Dinniman 2022 American English
7672 The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater 2012 American English
5908 Complete Prose Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
2255 Busman’s Honeymoon Dorothy L. Sayers 1937 British English
16951 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
9704 Address Unknown Kathrine Kressmann Taylor 1938 American English
17152 Minha Vó Pede Desculpas Freedrik Backman 2013 Swedish Swedish
14985 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
17152 Cold Harbor Matthew FitzSimmons 2017 American English
17152 The Science Of Last Things Ellen Wayland-Smith American Unknown
2995 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
14985 The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 2002 German German
16983 The Devils Of Loudun Aldous Huxley 1952 British English