Our Users' Honorable Mention Favorite Books of All Time

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2069 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
401 Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea Fernando de Rojas 1499 Spanish Spanish
487 Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 1915 British English
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
17152 Fortunately, The Milk Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
9248 Cities Of Salt Abd al-Rahman Munif 1984 Arabic Arabic
3238 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
14764 Adelphoe Terence -160 Roman Latin
1387 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
1001 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
1024 Some Prefer Nettles Junichiro Tanizaki 1929 Japanese Japanese
703 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 British English
2080 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 1905 British English
3941 The Sweet Science A. J. Liebling 1956 American English
14722 Frog And Toad Together Arnold Lobel 1972 American English
5988 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1602 British English
1472 The Beauty Of The Husband Anne Carson 2001 Canadian English
1164 The Nose Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
3106 Alcestis Euripides -438 Greek Ancient greek
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
17152 Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott 1999 American English
17152 Fool Christopher Moore 2009 American English
1310 Our Man In Havana Graham Greene 1958 British English
15761 Frog And Toad All Year Arnold Lobel 1976 American English
512 The Golden Ass Apuleius 158 Roman Latin
14723 Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws Philo of Alexandria 50 Jewish Greek
494 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien 1967 Irish English
826 Voss Patrick White 1957 Australian English
15863 Days With Frog And Toad Arnold Lobel 1979 American English
2922 Discourses Of Epictetus Epictetus -108 Greek Greek
1230 Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake 1789 British English
606 New Grub Street George Gissing 1891 British English
2084 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
611 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 1961 American English
4785 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
527 The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 French French
2467 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001 Canadian English
10575 Ghost Jason Reynolds 2016 American English
2367 Brooklyn Colm Toibin 2009 Irish English
630 The Swindler Francisco de Quevedo 1626 Spanish Spanish
331 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980 American English
2730 Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
3015 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
11318 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
4215 Andromache Euripides -425 Greek Ancient greek
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1011 Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
11303 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
876 Lysistrata Aristophanes -411 Greek Ancient greek
9261 Lit Mary Karr 2009 American English
816 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke 1759 British English
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
5717 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
8594 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
735 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
14724 Apocolocyntosis Seneca 54 Roman Latin
620 The Elements of Style E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. 1918 American English
17152 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers 1991 American English
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
402 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle -334 Greek Ancient greek
11522 Argonautika Apollonius of Rhodes -250 Ancient greek
4455 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
2829 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
3128 Attis And Other Poems Catullus -53 Roman Latin
5102 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
2176 Hawaii James A. Michener 1959 American English
2393 Satantango László Krasznahorkai 1985 Hungarian Hungarian
15736 Chicken Soup With Rice Maurice Sendak 1962 American English
17152 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
14985 The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell 2008 American English
8644 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
1634 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros 1984 American English
15737 Gorgias Plato -380 Greek Ancient greek
17152 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 2011 American English
8502 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
259 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
14725 Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Sallust -40 Roman Latin
1416 Rights of Man Thomas Paine 1791 British English
637 The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955 British English
1166 Lanark Alasdair Gray 1981 Scottish English
352 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1766 British English
7021 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
4855 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 Scottish English
3425 Cinderella Unknown 23 Multiple French
710 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5446 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
17152 Griffin & Sabine Nick Bantock 1991 British English
1332 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello 1926 Italian Italian
2801 Collected Plays Of Euripides Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
621 Analects Confucius -479 Chinese Classical chinese
7996 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
4477 Comedies Of Aristophanes Aristophanes -425 Ancient greek
229 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 French French
14985 Bossypants Tina Fey 2011 American English
1020 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
4306 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
358 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
411 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
9223 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
7139 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan 1991 American English
2589 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
920 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German German
3875 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
5815 Cyclops Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
730 Petersburg Andrei Bely 1913 Russian Russian
8670 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
2563 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2848 What Is the What Dave Eggers 2006 American English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3424 Common Sense Thomas Paine 1776 British English
3296 Cyropaedia Xenophon -370 Greek Ancient greek
7148 Atomic Habits James Clear 2018 American English
280 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 American English
2025 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 American English
9261 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
4683 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English