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
7776 The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972 American English
16905 Pierre Or The Ambiguities Herman Melville 1852 American English
3446 The Elegant Universe Brian Greene 1999 American English
17010 Competitive Strategy Michael E. Porter 1980 American English
17010 Psychopolitics Byung-Chul Han 2017 German German
7907 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
2216 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
14901 La Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
17010 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17010 The Republic Of Thieves Scott Lynch 2013 American English
3113 Sessanta Racconti Dino Buzzati 1958 Italian Italian
17010 The Angelical Language, Volume I Aaron Leitch 2010 Unknown English
17010 Benedict Arnold Randall, Willard Sterne 2012 American English
1970 Peace Gene Wolfe 1975 American English
11287 The Little Friend Donna Tartt 2002 American English
17010 Delighting In The Trinity Michael Reeves 2012 British English
10571 Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley 2021 American English
17010 The Endless Vessel Charles Soule 2023 Unknown English
17010 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
622 Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1809 German German
1895 The Ice People René Barjavel 1968 French French
4487 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
17010 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17010 Hell Followed With Us Paperback 6 Copy Pre Pack Andrew Joseph White 2022 Unknown English
17010 Райский сад первой любви Линь Ихань 2017 Chinese Chinese (traditional)
1875 Home Marilynne Robinson 2008 American English
14059 Turtles All The Way Down John Green 2017 American English
17010 Easypeasy Method Hackauthor² Unknown Unknown
16906 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17010 Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Bryan Lee O'Malley 2004 Canadian English
17010 Secret Wars Jonathan Hickman 2015 American English
17010 The Garden Of Evening Mists Tan Twang Eng 2012 Malaysian English
16908 Valentino / Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg 1957 Italian Italian
17010 The Good Life Jay McInerney 2006 American English
16909 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17010 The Darkness That Comes Before R. Scott Bakker 2003 Canadian English
17010 King Henry Vi, Part 3 William Shakespeare 2001 British English
17010 Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library Frank Miller 2005 American English
17010 Good Reasons For Bad Feelings Randolph M. Nesse 2019 American English
17010 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17010 Starting Point 1979 1996 Hayao Miyazaki Japanese Japanese
17010 The Ship Of The Dead Rick Riordan 2017 American English
17010 Hollow Kingdom Bill Buxton 2019 Unknown English
17010 Real Analysis Jay Cummings Unknown English
17010 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor 2004 American English
17010 El Vago Laurence Gonzales 1983 American English
9070 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
14896 Full Tilt Dervla Murphy 1965 Irish English
6546 Prep Curtis Sittenfeld 2005 American English
10794 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American English
16910 Lord Of The Horizon Joan Grant 1969 British English
17010 Blended Sharon M. Draper 2018 American English
16911 Preobražaj Franz Kafka 1915 German German
7913 Abundance Ezra Klein 2025 American English
17010 Fake Fruit Factory Patrick Wensink 2015 American English
6886 The Winter Sea Susanna Kearsley 2008 Canadian English
1827 The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1916 American English
1089 Shahnameh Ferdowsi 1010 Iranian Persian
5750 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
4982 A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze 1980 French French
8035 Red Queen Victoria Aveyard 2015 American English
17010 Habitus Emma Rooksby Unknown Unknown
10901 Wilt Tom Sharpe 1976 British English
17010 Concerning My Daughter Hye-Jin Kim 2017 South Korean Korean
16912 Antichrist Nietzsche 1895 German German
16913 Manhã Submersa Vergílio Ferreira 1953 Portuguese Portuguese
3617 The Atrocity Exhibition J. G. Ballard 1970 British English
17010 The Blue Umbrella Ruskin Bond 1980 Indian English
17010 Waybound Will Wight 2023 American English
17010 The Poisoner's Handbook Hutchkinson, Maxwell 1988 Unknown English
17010 Conviction Denise Mina 2019 Scottish English
8085 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
2925 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
16915 The Diary Of Adam And Eve Mark Twain 1904 American English
16916 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
3571 Carrie's War Nina Bawden 1973 British English
14876 On The Banks Of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder 1937 American English
17010 At The End Of The Orchard Tracy Chevalier British English
16917 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
16918 Die Foundation Trilogie Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
17010 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
5903 The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1863 Russian Russian
17010 For One More Day Mitch Albom 2006 American English
13890 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
2959 The Sea John Banville 2005 Irish English
17010 Boy Parts Eliza Clark 2020 British English
17010 Goethe Werke 6 Volumes In German Insel Verlag Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German German
14852 The Red Pony John Steinbeck 1933 American English
6302 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
16919 Bambi Felix Salten 1923 Austrian German
16920 Rebellion Joseph Roth 1924 Austrian German
1657 The Song of Roland Unknown 1100 French Old french
17010 Poland Adam Zamoyski 2009 British English
14885 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
1860 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014 American English
13867 The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 1965 Polish Polish
17010 Doctor Who George Mann 2014 British Unknown
9314 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
17010 Yumi And The Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson 2023 American English
14901 My Death Lisa Tuttle 2004 Unknown English
17010 The Bitcoin Standard Saifedean Ammous 2018 Unknown English
17010 The Captain Will Wight 2023 Unknown English
17010 Superfudge Judy Blume 1980 American English
3128 Daddy Long Legs Jean Webster 1912 American English
17010 My Life On The Road Gloria Steinem 2015 American English
17010 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack D. Schwager 2012 American English
17010 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
14901 Freedom Orlando Patterson 1991 Jamaican English
17010 Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month Louise Penny 2005 Canadian English
10989 Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake 2025 American English
14901 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller 2003 British English
16921 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17010 Love And The Mess We're In Stephen Marche Canadian English
1158 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 German English
10193 Hersenschimmen J. Bernlef 1984 Dutch Dutch
17010 Bloodline Claudia Gray 2016 American English
17010 Dopamine Detox Thibaut Meurisse 2020 Unknown English
17010 Sherwood Meagan Spooner 2019 American English
14009 Sanin Mikhail Artsybashev 1907 Russian Russian
16922 Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man, And Selections From The House Of The Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky 1961 Russian Russian