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
3453 The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom 1987 American English
12318 The Hero And The Crown Robin McKinley 1984 American English
17155 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
14887 Black Spring Henry Miller 1936 American English
17155 The Pull Of The Earth Alfred Alcorn 1985 Unknown English
17155 Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman 2017 British English
16971 De Uitvreter / Titaantjes / Dichtertje / Mene Tekel Nescio 1918 Dutch Dutch
16991 The Other Side Alfred Kubin 1909 Austrian English
2051 Momo Michael Ende 1973 German German
17155 Royal Assassin Robin Hobb 1997 American English
645 A Study of History Arnold J. Toynbee 1934 British English
3096 We're Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen 1989 British English
3398 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
17155 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
2558 Alamut Vladimir Bartol 1938 Slovenian Slovene
17155 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
2202 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
16975 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17155 Cousins Sally Vickers British English
3891 Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine 1997 American English
7672 The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater 2012 American English
14952 Blood Wedding Federico García Lorca 1933 Spanish Spanish
2255 Busman’s Honeymoon Dorothy L. Sayers 1937 British English
14985 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
17155 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 2021 Irish English
5732 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 2001 Irish English
17155 Not That Bad Roxane Gay 2018 American English
2122 The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart 1970 British English
10426 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
8435 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
17155 Credence Penelope Douglas 2020 American English
17155 Gold Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
5120 Baudolino Umberto Eco 2000 Italian Italian
2660 The Women's Room Marilyn French 1977 American English
17155 The Best Of Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe American English
17155 You've Found Oliver Dustin Thao 2025 American English
17155 A Man Called Otto Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
14985 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
17155 Dear Evan Hansen : The Novel Free Preview Edition Justin Paul, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Val Emmich 2018 American English
17155 Breath James Nestor 2020 American English
2708 A Lover's Discourse Roland Barthes 1977 French French
14985 My Heart Is A Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones 2021 American English
17155 Before They Are Hanged Joe Abercrombie 2007 British English
17155 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
1494 Eye Of The Needle Ken Follett 1978 British English
2657 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1965 American English
17155 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17155 Im Wasser Sind Wir Schwerelos Tomasz Jedrowski 2020 Unknown German
17155 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
5612 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
17155 Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky 2024 British English
14985 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
17155 Bittersweet Susan Cain 2022 American English
17155 The Evening And The Morning Ken Follett 2020 British English
2817 The Belkin Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
17155 Conclave Robert Harris 2016 British English
3125 Cover Her Face P. D. James 1962 British English
17155 The Language Of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh 2011 American English
17027 Domnisoara Christina. Sarpele Mircea Eliade 1936 Romanian Romanian
17004 The Origins And History Of Consciousness Carl Jung, Franz Neumann, Helen R. Hull 1949 German German
17155 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17155 She Comes First Ian Kerner 2004 American English
17155 The Hammer Of Thor Rick Riordan 2016 American English
14985 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 1990 American English
6513 Incest Christine Angot 1999 French French
17035 Ernestina José Rentes de Carvalho 201 Portuguese Portuguese
2997 A Child's Christmas In Wales Dylan Thomas 1955 Welsh English
6932 Laços De Família Clarice Lispector 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
17155 The Apothecary Diaries Natsu Hyuuga Japanese Japanese
17030 The Keys Of The Kingdom A. J. Cronin 1941 British English
17155 A Dowry Of Blood S.T. Gibson 2021 Unknown English
8755 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
9131 Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher 2010 British English
17155 Alone With You In The Ether Olivie Blake 2022 Unknown English
17024 Quiet Days In Clichy And The World Of Sex Henry Miller 1956 American English
9774 Women Talking Miriam Toews 2018 Canadian English
17155 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
2984 Tent of Miracles Jorge Amado 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
17155 The Age Of Kali William Dalrymple 1998 British English
17155 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17155 Survivor Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17155 The False Prince Leslie Nielsen Unknown Unknown
17155 The Cat Who Saved Books Sōsuke Natsukawa 2017 Japanese Japanese
17155 Envy Sandra Brown 2001 American English
1304 Collected Poems Stéphane Mallarmé 1887 French French
6253 The Craftsman Richard Sennett 2008 American English
9239 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
2254 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
17155 America, The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 2018 American English
2274 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen 1890 Norwegian Norwegian
17155 Blink Malcolm Gladwell 2005 Canadian English
17155 Three Days Of Happiness Sugaru Miaki 2013 Japanese Japanese
6362 The Restraint Of Beasts Magnus Mills 1998 British English
17025 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17155 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
17155 Pastoral Americana Philip Roth 1997 American English
17155 The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating Renee Raudman, Elisabeth Tova Bailey 2010 American English
10187 Winter Journal Paul Auster 2012 American English
1666 Zami Audre Lorde 1982 American English
17155 Doctor Who Russell T. Davies 1996 British Unknown
17155 Orthodoxy And The Kingdom Of Satan Spyridon Bailey Unknown English
17155 The Jaunt Stephen King 1981 American English
17155 The Ballad Of Never After Stephanie Garber 2022 American English
17016 Hill Jean Giono 1928 French English
17155 To The Hoop Ira Berkow 1997 American English
3406 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
14977 Ogniem I Mieczem Henryk Sienkiewicz 1884 Polish
17034 The Visible And The Invisible Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1964 French French
6377 Asterios Polyp David Mazzucchelli 2009 American English
17155 Die Kunst Des Verschwindens. Jim Dodge 1990 Unknown German
3202 The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley 1945 British English
17155 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17155 The Perfect Run Ii Cédric Durand Unknown Unknown
17022 What The Buddha Taught Walpola Rahula 1959 British English
17155 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17023 Jane Eyre Emily Bronte 1847 English English
14232 Doubt John Patrick Shanley 2004 American English
12066 Les Thanatonautes Bernard Werber 1994 French French