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
804 Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 British English
303 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 British English
17010 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
140 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French French
2524 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 American English
1614 The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford 1945 British English
212 The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 French French
980 It Stephen King 1986 American English
1032 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 1897 Russian Russian
1843 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
2433 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
1941 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok 1972 American English
10149 The Pale King David Foster Wallace 2011 American English
2191 The Story of My Life Helen Keller 1903 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
3904 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
2727 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
275 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1836 British English
2584 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
985 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
6820 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
422 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 Norwegian Norwegian
414 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
344 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
1695 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields 1993 Canadian English
1636 Postwar Tony Judt 2005 British English
3940 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
136 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
14633 Go, Dog. Go! P. D. Eastman 1961 American English
288 A Room With a View E. M. Forster 1908 British English
780 Simplicius Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 1668 German German
796 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Jan Potocki 1805 Polish French
749 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
572 Three Sisters Anton Chekhov 1901 Russian Russian
854 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
2408 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
1623 The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 American English
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
1199 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
689 Excellent Women Barbara Pym 1952 British English
235 The Ambassadors Henry James 1903 American English
2342 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
1540 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English
1272 Erasure Percival Everett 2001 American English
1644 Shogun James Clavell 1975 British English
2116 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
1808 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
1025 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
2609 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1623 British English
4360 Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain 2000 American English
4285 Mystic River Dennis Lehane 2001 American English
14040 The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner 1942 American English
921 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
17010 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
466 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
4288 Bird By Bird Anne Lamott 1994 American English
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
1691 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2002 American English
17010 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
3150 Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 1955 American English
14635 Nobody Knows My Name James Baldwin 1961 American English
886 Drunkard Émile Zola 1877 French Unknown
331 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748 British English
942 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
2801 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
1111 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
332 Parallel Lives Plutarch 100 Greek Greek
4454 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
1172 Little, Big John Crowley 1981 American English
2537 Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson 1915 British English
2171 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012 American English
776 I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 American English
778 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
1227 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 American English
3229 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
1229 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1788 The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1839 British English
2922 Unless Carol Shields 2002 Canadian English
6261 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
4625 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
1605 The Drowned World J. G. Ballard 1962 British English
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
1739 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend 1982 British English
2258 A Grain Of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1967 Kenyan English
7715 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
364 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
1153 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 Australian English
1876 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
2347 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie 2000 Chinese French
265 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
1648 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 American English
181 The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1906 American English
8671 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
1559 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey 1988 Australian English
9562 American Prometheus Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin 2005 American English
1288 The 13 Clocks James Thurber 1950 American English
455 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
421 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
7823 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
6954 Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam 2000 American English
15613 The Gift Of The Magi O. Henry 1905 American English
5801 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
730 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
2699 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
298 The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis 1881 Brazilian Portuguese
459 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
14067 The Boys Of Summer Roger Kahn 1972 American English
1222 Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand 1935 Indian English
299 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
777 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
1401 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 1896 Russian Russian
2531 Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 1996 American English
4971 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
326 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
311 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges 1962 Argentinian Spanish
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English
862 Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Høeg 1992 Danish Danish
1980 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese