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
10068 The Mirror & The Light Hilary Mantel 2020 British English
277 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1836 British English
1645 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
804 The Vegetarian Han Kang 2007 Korean Korean
874 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000 American English
233 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
419 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
788 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
2195 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 American English
805 Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 British English
14232 The Passage Justin Cronin 2010 American English
300 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 British English
17153 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
140 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French French
1618 The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 1945 British English
213 The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 French French
1035 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 1897 Russian Russian
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
1944 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok 1972 American English
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English
10167 The Pale King David Foster Wallace 2011 American English
2203 The Story of My Life Helen Keller 1903 American English
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
2731 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
2586 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
424 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 Norwegian Norwegian
986 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
14716 Go, Dog. Go! P. D. Eastman 1961 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
345 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
417 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
1697 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 1993 Canadian English
3946 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
1201 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
1638 Postwar Tony Judt 2005 British English
1542 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English
781 Simplicius Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 1668 German German
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
797 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Jan Potocki 1805 Polish French
572 Three Sisters Anton Chekhov 1901 Russian Russian
2415 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
1625 The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 American English
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
691 Excellent Women Barbara Pym 1952 British English
235 The Ambassadors Henry James 1903 American English
2349 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
1272 Erasure Percival Everett 2001 American English
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
1809 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
2124 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
4291 Mystic River Dennis Lehane 2001 American English
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
4366 Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain 2000 American English
2612 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1623 British English
14102 The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner 1942 American English
198 Howards End E. M. Forster 1910 British English
17153 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
4295 Bird By Bird Anne Lamott 1994 American English
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
17153 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
1693 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2002 American English
3236 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
888 Drunkard Émile Zola 1877 French Unknown
3156 Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 1955 American English
14718 Nobody Knows My Name James Baldwin 1961 American English
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
4459 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
943 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
2807 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
334 Parallel Lives Plutarch 100 Greek Greek
2182 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012 American English
2541 Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson 1915 British English
1173 Little, Big John Crowley 1981 American English
777 I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 American English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
1231 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 American English
1233 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1609 The Drowned World J. G. Ballard 1962 British English
2930 Unless Carol Shields 2002 Canadian English
4633 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
1728 The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1839 British English
283 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
6272 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
1741 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend 1982 British English
7732 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
1154 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 Australian English
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
366 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
2354 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie 2000 Chinese French
2267 A Grain Of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1967 Kenyan English
183 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 American English
8688 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
1650 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 American English
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
1561 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey 1988 Australian English
1288 The 13 Clocks James Thurber 1950 American English
9582 American Prometheus Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin 2005 American English
456 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
6965 Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam 2000 American English
2703 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
15731 The Gift Of The Magi O. Henry 1905 American English
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
5812 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
301 The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis 1881 Brazilian Portuguese
778 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
14131 The Boys Of Summer Roger Kahn 1972 American English
302 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
2535 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 1996 American English
1225 Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand 1935 Indian English
4981 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
1402 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 1896 Russian Russian
862 Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Høeg 1992 Danish Danish