Our Users' Honorable Mention Favorite Books of All Time

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

The Greatest Books Users, 6997 Books

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.

This list has over 5000+ voters from all over the world

If you would like to contribute add your favorite books to your "My Favorite Books" user list.

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

View: List Grid Table
Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17173 Lord Of The Mysteries Volume 1 Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2018 Chinese Chinese
3200 The Perennial Philosophy Aldous Huxley 1945 British English
2186 On Love Alain de Botton 1993 British English
14986 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
5979 The Ogre Michel Tournier 1970 French French
17173 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17173 Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas Adam Kay 2019 British English
17173 The Lost Metal Brandon Sanderson 2022 American English
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
3291 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
17173 Gone Michael Grant 2008 American English
17173 Toll The Hounds Steven Erikson 2008 Canadian English
17051 Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
3123 Cover Her Face P. D. James 1962 British English
17173 Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 2020 American English
17173 The Red Book C.G. Jung 2009 Swiss German
17173 Conclave Robert Harris 2016 British English
17173 The Perfect Run Ii Cédric Durand Unknown Unknown
17173 Rocket Men Robert Kurson 2018 American English
17173 The Mahabharata Ramesh Menon 2004 British English
17173 Dreadgod Will Wight 2022 American English
17173 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
4737 Shadow and ACT Ralph Ellison 1964 American English
17173 Bittersweet Susan Cain 2022 American English
17053 The Origins And History Of Consciousness Carl Jung, Franz Neumann, Helen R. Hull 1949 German German
967 The Heat of the Day Elizabeth Bowen 1949 British English
2274 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 1985 American English
17173 Red Army Amanda Peters 1989 Unknown Unknown
14986 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
17173 The Cat Who Saved Books Sōsuke Natsukawa 2017 Japanese Japanese
17173 Us Against You Fredrik Backman 2017 Swedish Swedish
17173 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
13710 Lo Que No Tiene Nombre Piedad Bonnett 2013 Colombian Spanish
17173 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17173 The Evening And The Morning Ken Follett 2020 British English
17173 Pastoral Americana Philip Roth 1997 American English
14890 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
17173 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
1666 Zami Audre Lorde 1982 American English
17173 The Hammer Of Thor Rick Riordan 2016 American English
14986 Powerless Lauren Roberts 2023 Unknown English
17055 Preobražaj Franz Kafka 1915 German German
17057 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17059 Arabia Felix Thorkild Hansen 1962 Danish Danish
3118 Sessanta Racconti Dino Buzzati 1958 Italian Italian
1946 A Burnt Child Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
17173 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
8432 Heart The Lover Lily King 2025 Unknown English
17173 The Republic Of Thieves Scott Lynch 2013 American English
17173 Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009 English
17173 The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Hazel Gaynor 2018 British English
17173 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
2415 The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956 American English
6897 The Winter Sea Susanna Kearsley 2008 Canadian English
17062 Hans Brinker : The Silver Skates: (6*9) Mary Mapes Dodge 1865 American English
17060 Chance Or The Dance Thomas Howard 1969 American English
17173 Fake Fruit Factory Patrick Wensink 2015 American English
17064 The Bridal Wreath Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
2970 The Steppe Anton Chekhov 1888 Russian Russian
2228 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
17065 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
10219 Hersenschimmen J. Bernlef 1984 Dutch Dutch
17066 The Golden Dawn Israel Regardie 1971 British English
17173 House To House David Bellavia 2007 American English
17173 Vargarna Från Evighetens Skog Karl Ove Knausgård 2021 Norwegian Swedish
17173 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
14986 The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan 1992 American English
17173 Zima Blue And Other Stories Alastair Reynolds 2006 British English
17173 薫る花は凛と咲く 1 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
14232 The Postman David Brin 1985 American English
17068 The Islandman Tomás Ó Crohan 1929 Irish Irish
14230 Fat City Leonard Gardner 1969 American English
17173 Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library Frank Miller 2005 American English
17173 The Combat Codes Charles Darwin Unknown Unknown
4494 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
17173 Hedge Fund Market Wizards Jack D. Schwager 2012 American English
17173 Habitus Emma Rooksby Unknown Unknown
17173 To Rouse Leviathan Matt Cardin 2019 American English
3809 The Writing Life Annie Dillard 1989 American English
17173 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1 Inio Asano 2007 Japanese Japanese
17173 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
7923 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
17173 Muhammad Karen Armstrong 1991 British English
17173 The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea Axie Oh 2022 Unknown English
9794 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
11575 The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham 1925 British English
17173 When You Least Expect It Haley Cass 2020 Unknown English
7127 The Redbreast Jo Nesbø 2000 Norwegian Norwegian
17056 The Saga Of The Volsungs Anonymous 1270 Unknown Old norse
17173 Concerning My Daughter Hye-Jin Kim 2017 South Korean Korean
14986 Hope Andrew Ridker 2023 American English
17061 The Law Of Presidential Impeachment Association of the Bar of the City of New York 1974 American English
17173 Europe And The Faith Hilaire Belloc British English
17173 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English
17173 Alaska James A. Michener 1988 American English
501 W, or the Memory of Childhood Georges Perec 1975 French French
14232 When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead 2009 American English
17173 Real Analysis Jay Cummings Unknown English
17173 The Long Patrol Brian Jacques 1997 British English
14122 Turtles All The Way Down John Green 2017 American English
11245 December Breeze Marvel Moreno 1987 Colombian Spanish
17173 Hell Followed With Us Paperback 6 Copy Pre Pack Andrew Joseph White 2022 Unknown English
17069 Pierre Or The Ambiguities Herman Melville 1852 American English
1975 Peace Gene Wolfe 1975 American English
14986 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller 2003 British English
17173 Hollow Kingdom Bill Buxton 2019 Unknown English
8050 Red Queen Victoria Aveyard 2015 American English
17173 Blended Sharon M. Draper 2018 American English
17173 The Cruelest Miles Gay Salisbury 2003 Unknown English
17173 Delighting In The Trinity Michael Reeves 2012 British English
11022 Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake 2025 American English
17070 Lord Of The Horizon Joan Grant 1969 British English
14986 George Alex Gino 2015 American English
17173 The Underground Girls Of Kabul Jenny Nordberg 2014 Unknown English
17173 The Fine Art Of Small Talk Debra Fine 2005 American English
8816 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
17173 Smell Nagabe Unknown Unknown
17173 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
17173 Starting Point 1979 1996 Hayao Miyazaki Japanese Japanese
17173 The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land 2012 British English