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
15614 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
2273 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 2011 American English
12186 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
1980 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
12439 And The Pursuit Of Happiness Maira Kalman 2010 American English
14165 Because Of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo 2000 American English
2482 The Golden Compass Philip Pullman 1995 British English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
3878 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
14901 Love, Loss, And What I Wore Ilene Beckerman 1995 American English
14631 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
1472 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
196 Howards End E. M. Forster 1910 British English
446 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
722 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 British English
746 Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000 American English
8752 John Adams David McCullough 2001 American English
14636 Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau 1869 French French
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
757 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
1832 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
1024 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1505 Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya 1972 American English
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
218 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
1052 Letters from a Stoic Seneca 64 Roman Latin
13514 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
1536 Snow Orhan Pamuk 2002 Turkish Turkish
14901 The Body Bill Bryson 2019 American English
1202 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
3868 Flow Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1990 American English
5091 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
1367 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 American English
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
1179 Annals Cornelius Tacitus 109 Roman Latin
14901 Book Lust Nancy Pearl 2003 American English
17008 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2136 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
1004 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 British English
2562 The Family Of Pascual Duarte Camilo José Cela 1942 Spanish Spanish
1245 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
10962 Happenstance Carol Shields 1980 Canadian English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
2431 The Railway Children Edith Nesbit 1906 British English
428 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
15615 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
258 Finnegans Wake James Joyce 1939 Irish English
14901 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
2410 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
15616 Infortunios De Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes Of Alonso Ramirez José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora 1690 Mexican Spanish
14637 Almagest Ptolemy 150 Greek Greek
16699 The Original Adventures Of Hank The Cowdog John R. Erickson 1983 American English
821 Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1800 British English
17008 Census Jesse Ball 2018 American English
7007 Corinne Madame de Staël 1807 French French
3820 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
289 Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 American English
2963 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
12669 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2011 American English
1585 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson 1927 British English
307 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
1699 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
15617 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote 1956 American English
11493 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
1155 Apology Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
2615 The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante 2011 Italian Italian
5818 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
5114 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
1486 Kokoro Natsume Sōseki 1914 Japanese Japanese
2320 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
158 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
1389 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 Jamaican English
451 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
731 Possession A. S. Byatt 1990 British English
17008 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
2445 Henry V William Shakespeare 1600 British English
13890 Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! Mo Willems 2003 American English
4742 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
984 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
1123 Ajax Sophocles -440 Greek Ancient greek
1799 The Deptford Trilogy Robertson Davies 1970 Canadian English
281 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
2737 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
1899 The Power Broker Robert Caro 1974 American English
2206 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
17008 Dreyer's English Eileen Dreyer 2019 Unknown English
1984 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1532 The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann 1819 German German
17008 Each Kindness Jacqueline Woodson 2012 American English
247 Death in Venice Thomas Mann 1912 German German
1684 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
14638 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
788 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 1983 Austrian German
2332 Master of the Senate Robert Caro 2002 American English
6477 The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1922 British English
1548 Njal's Saga Iceland 1280 Icelandic Old norse
1299 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk 1998 Turkish Turkish
1449 Corpus Aristotelicum Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
616 The Rebel Albert Camus 1951 French French
1717 No Longer Human Osamu Dazai 1948 Japanese Japanese
2278 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
322 Mahabharata Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
920 Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1969 British English
1144 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1984 New Zealand English
6265 The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan 2013 Australian English
539 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell 1980 American English
14676 Frog And Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel 1970 American English
1238 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 2009 Polish Polish
516 Season of Migration to the North Al-Tayyib Salih 1966 Sudanese Arabic
4467 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 1996 Canadian English
4968 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
17008 Shakespeare For Squirrels Christopher Moore 2020 American English
782 Anabasis Xenophon -390 Greek Ancient greek
17008 And The Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini 2013 American English
747 Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
487 Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 1915 British English
399 Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea Fernando de Rojas 1499 Spanish Spanish