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
2657 Daughters of Fire Gerard de Nerval 1854 French French
17010 Precious Sapphire 1996 American English
468 A Death in the Family James Agee 1957 American English
17010 Mesopotamia Serhiy Zhadan 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
17010 Kira Kira Cynthia Kadohata 2004 American English
17010 The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. Thomas Tufte 1983 Unknown English
17010 Elvis And Me Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 1985 American English
4444 Shibumi Trevanian 1979 American English
17010 Negative Space B.R. Yeager 2020 American English
17010 रश्मिरथी Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 1981 Indian Hindi
17010 An Abundance Of Katherines John Green 2006 American English
17010 Elantris Brandon Sanderson 2005 American English
1913 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works Jonathan Swift 1729 Irish English
14901 Count Zero William Gibson 1986 American English
17010 Nobody Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2013 American English
17010 Darth Plagueis James Luceno 2012 American English
17010 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17010 Talking It Over Julian Barnes 1991 British English
17010 Let It Snow John Green 2008 American English
17010 Tongue Eater Ambrose Bierce American English
17010 Die Insel Der Tausend Leuchttürme Walter Moers 2023 German German
7140 This Earth Of Mankind Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1975 Indonesian Indonesian
17002 Rocannon's World Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 American English
2717 The Life Of Saint Teresa Of Avila By Herself Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
17001 Victoria Knut Hamsun 1898 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Januaries Olivie Blake 2024 Unknown English
17010 Amy And Isabelle Elizabeth Strout 1998 American English
17004 San Manuel Bueno, Mártir Miguel de Unamuno 1931 Spanish Spanish
14807 The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham 1949 American English
17010 A House In The Sky Jim Corbett, Lindhout, Amanda 2013 Canadian English
1900 The Physician Noah Gordon 1986 American English
17010 Led Zeppelin Bob Spitz 2021 American English
17010 The Complete Fiction Of H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American English
17010 Christ The Conqueror Of Hell Hilarion Alfeyev 2009 Russian Russian
17010 Absolute Dc Darwyn Cooke 2006 Canadian English
17010 Nigeria Culture Smart! Diane Lemieux 2012 Unknown English
3826 Blott On The Landscape Tom Sharpe 1975 British English
11208 Vera, Or Faith Gary Shteyngart 2025 American English
17010 Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman 1995 American English
17010 Walkable City Rules Jeff Speck 2018 American English
4890 Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare 1594 British English
17000 Roméo Et Juliette / Macbeth William Shakespeare 1597 British English
17010 Sea Wall / A Life John Stephens Unknown Unknown
14901 Stalingrad Antony Beevor 1998 British English
17010 Voyage Of Slaves Brian Jacques 2006 British English
14901 Middle Of The Night Riley Sager 2024 American English
14901 The Bear And The Nightingale Katherine Arden 2017 American English
17010 Architectural Composition And Building Typology Gianfranco Caniggia Italian Italian
17009 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17010 Frank Skinner By Frank Skinner Quentin Skinner 2001 British English
14901 The Invention Of Prehistory Stefanos Geroulanos 2024 Unknown English
17010 Count The Ways Joyce Maynard 2021 American English
17010 The Dragonet Prophecy Tui T. Sutherland 2012 American English
16982 Sexus Henry Miller 1949 American English
1038 On War Carl Von Clausewitz 1832 German German
17010 Strange Practice Vivian Shaw 2017 American English
2862 House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday 1968 American English
17010 Thinner Richard Bachman 1984 American English
17010 The Lost Love Songs Of Boysie Singh Ingrid Persaud 2024 Trinidadian English
3371 Ordinary People Judith Guest 1976 American English
16957 The Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries W. Y. Evans-Wentz 1911 American English
10948 The Children Of Noisy Village Astrid Lindgren 2003 Swedish Swedish
17010 Bad Cree Jessica Johns 2023 Unknown English
16985 Narrative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English
1016 The Interior Castle Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
17010 What Happened Bill Clinton American Unknown
14901 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
14901 Love In The Big City Sang Young Park 2019 Korean Korean
17010 The Memory Painter Womack, Gwendolyn 2015 American English
17010 Galveston Nic Pizzolatto 2010 American English
13890 Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Bryan Lee O'Malley 2004 Canadian English
16967 Hell Screen Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1918 Japanese Japanese
4860 Human Action Ludwig von Mises 1949 Austrian English
17010 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17010 1 Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
17010 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17010 $2.00 A Day Kathryn J. Edin 2015 American English
16948 Uncle’s Dream Fyodor Dostoevsky 1859 Russian Russian
11551 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
7553 Mortality Christopher Hitchens 2012 British English
17010 May Contain Lies Alex Edmans Unknown Unknown
17010 Time Management Brian Tracy 2007 American English
17010 Tryst Six Venom Penelope Douglas 2021 American English
17010 A Drop Of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett Unknown Unknown
17010 The Magpie At Night Li Qingzhao Chinese Chinese
17010 The Book Amaranth Borsuk 2018 Unknown English
2080 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
17010 Lexicon Max Barry 2013 Australian English
17010 The Cellist Daniel Silva 2021 American English
17010 Inner Excellence Jim Murphy 2009 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
Credence Penelope Douglas 2020 American English
4386 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
17010 We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lou Sullivan 2019 American English
9331 Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh 2015 American English
17006 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17010 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17010 In Europe Geert Mak 2004 Dutch Dutch
17010 Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism Anne Case 2020 American English
12696 A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie 2019 British English
17010 Initiation Elizabeth Hatch Unknown Unknown
7695 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
3839 The Stone Raft José Saramago 1986 Portuguese Portuguese
1770 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore 1955 Irish English
14901 Nightfall Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg 1990 American English
6935 Noli Me Tángere José Rizal 1887 Filipino Spanish
9526 The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo 1869 French French
17010 Dandelions Yasunari Kawabata Japanese Japanese
14107 The Human Comedy William Saroyan 1943 American English
11832 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
3134 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
5692 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel 1992 British English
17010 The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth Barry Zalma 2010 American Unknown
17010 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
17010 The Book Of Longings Sue Monk Kidd 2020 American English
17010 United As One (Lorien Legacies Book 7) Pittacus Lore 2016 American English
14891 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
3574 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
10939 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
17010 Indian Sun Craske, Oliver Unknown English