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
2166 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 2011 American English
312 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges 1962 Argentinian Spanish
328 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
862 Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Høeg 1992 Danish Danish
1986 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
17153 Anam Cara John O'Donohue 1997 Irish English
15732 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
12214 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
1473 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
14232 Because Of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo 2000 American English
12470 And The Pursuit Of Happiness Maira Kalman 2010 American English
1538 Snow Orhan Pamuk 2002 Turkish Turkish
14714 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
3884 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
14985 Love, Loss, And What I Wore Ilene Beckerman 1995 American English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
8769 John Adams David McCullough 2001 American English
747 Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000 American English
723 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 British English
14719 Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau 1869 French French
1833 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
758 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 1957 American English
404 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 1787 American English
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
217 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1507 Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya 1972 American English
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
13560 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
1054 Letters from a Stoic Seneca 64 Roman Latin
14985 The Body Bill Bryson 2019 American English
1204 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
5100 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
3874 Flow Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1990 American English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
1180 Annals Cornelius Tacitus 109 Roman Latin
1368 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 American English
14985 Book Lust Nancy Pearl 2003 American English
2565 The Family Of Pascual Duarte Camilo José Cela 1942 Spanish Spanish
17153 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2146 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
1006 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 British English
2741 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
10991 Happenstance Carol Shields 1980 Canadian English
430 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
2437 The Railway Children Edith Nesbit 1906 British English
15733 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
2337 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
15734 Infortunios De Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes Of Alonso Ramirez José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora 1690 Mexican Spanish
14720 Almagest Ptolemy 150 Greek Greek
1299 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk 1998 Turkish Turkish
10419 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
257 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
16843 The Original Adventures Of Hank The Cowdog John R. Erickson 1983 American English
821 Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1800 British English
17153 Census Jesse Ball 2018 American English
7019 Corinne Madame de Staël 1807 French French
2971 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
12700 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
298 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
269 Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 American English
3825 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
1589 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson 1927 British English
15735 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote 1956 American English
1701 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
1156 Apology Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
5829 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
2618 The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante 2011 Italian Italian
5123 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
11519 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
2327 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
1487 Kokoro Natsume Sōseki 1914 Japanese Japanese
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
1390 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 Jamaican English
17153 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
452 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
13941 Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! Mo Willems 2003 American English
2450 Henry V William Shakespeare 1600 British English
718 Possession A. S. Byatt 1990 British English
4751 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
1686 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
1901 The Power Broker Robert Caro 1974 American English
1800 The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies 1970 Canadian English
1124 Ajax Sophocles -440 Greek Ancient greek
985 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
2218 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
17153 Dreyer's English Eileen Dreyer 2019 Unknown English
1449 Corpus Aristotelicum Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
240 Death in Venice Thomas Mann 1912 German German
17153 Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson 2012 American English
1534 The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann 1819 German German
17153 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
2339 Master of the Senate Robert Caro 2002 American English
789 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 1983 Austrian German
516 Season of Migration to the North Al-Tayyib Salih 1966 Sudanese Arabic
1550 Njal's Saga Iceland 1280 Icelandic Old norse
6489 The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1922 British English
616 The Rebel Albert Camus 1951 French French
2534 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
323 Mahabharata Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
17153 Shakespeare For Squirrels Christopher Moore 2020 American English
1719 No Longer Human Osamu Dazai 1948 Japanese Japanese
921 Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1969 British English
1145 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1984 New Zealand English
4978 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
539 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell 1980 American English
6276 The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan 2013 Australian English
4473 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 1996 Canadian English
1194 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 2009 Polish Polish
14763 Frog And Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel 1970 American English
17153 And The Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini 2013 American English
748 Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
783 Anabasis Xenophon -390 Greek Ancient greek