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
569 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
2064 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
17008 Fortunately, The Milk Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
9229 Cities Of Salt Abd al-Rahman Munif 1984 Arabic Arabic
3232 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
14677 Adelphoe Terence -160 Roman Latin
2530 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
1386 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
1021 Some Prefer Nettles Junichiro Tanizaki 1929 Japanese Japanese
366 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
14639 Frog And Toad Together Arnold Lobel 1972 American English
1471 The Beauty Of The Husband Anne Carson 2001 Canadian English
3936 The Sweet Science A. J. Liebling 1956 American English
2075 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 1905 British English
17008 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
17008 Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott 1999 American English
3099 Alcestis Euripides -438 Greek Ancient greek
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
1163 The Nose Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
512 The Golden Ass Apuleius 158 Roman Latin
14640 Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws Philo of Alexandria 50 Jewish Greek
15643 Frog And Toad All Year Arnold Lobel 1976 American English
1309 Our Man In Havana Graham Greene 1958 British English
494 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien 1967 Irish English
2916 Discourses Of Epictetus Epictetus -108 Greek Greek
606 New Grub Street George Gissing 1891 British English
5977 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1602 British English
826 Voss Patrick White 1957 Australian English
15743 Days With Frog And Toad Arnold Lobel 1979 American English
4776 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
2462 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001 Canadian English
526 The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 French French
2079 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
1226 Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake 1789 British English
2359 Brooklyn Colm Toibin 2009 Irish English
17008 Fool Christopher Moore 2009 American English
10547 Ghost Jason Reynolds 2016 American English
629 The Swindler Francisco de Quevedo 1626 Spanish Spanish
3007 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
11287 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
611 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 1961 American English
4210 Andromache Euripides -425 Greek Ancient greek
1789 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1008 Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
9242 Lit Mary Karr 2009 American English
2726 Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
876 Lysistrata Aristophanes -411 Greek Ancient greek
816 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke 1759 British English
11274 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
748 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
620 The Elements of Style E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. 1918 American English
14641 Apocolocyntosis Seneca 54 Roman Latin
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
400 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle -334 Greek Ancient greek
17008 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers 1991 American English
11496 Argonautika Apollonius of Rhodes -250 Ancient greek
3122 Attis And Other Poems Catullus -53 Roman Latin
4450 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
5707 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5093 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
8577 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
2209 Hawaii James A. Michener 1959 American English
2386 Satantango László Krasznahorkai 1985 Hungarian Hungarian
17008 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
2823 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
1632 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros 1984 American English
14901 The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell 2008 American English
15621 Gorgias Plato -380 Greek Ancient greek
8627 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
17008 Unfamiliar Fishes Sarah Vowell 2011 American English
257 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
1415 Rights of Man Thomas Paine 1791 British English
8483 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
1165 Lanark Alasdair Gray 1981 Scottish English
14642 Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Sallust -40 Roman Latin
351 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1766 British English
7010 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
3420 Cinderella Unknown 23 Multiple French
4846 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 Scottish English
1000 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
5437 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
15622 Chicken Soup With Rice Maurice Sendak 1962 American English
621 Analects Confucius -479 Chinese Classical chinese
1329 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Luigi Pirandello 1926 Italian Italian
2796 Collected Plays Of Euripides Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
17008 Griffin & Sabine Nick Bantock 1991 British English
14901 Bossypants Tina Fey 2011 American English
7981 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
4471 Comedies Of Aristophanes Aristophanes -425 Ancient greek
3276 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
9204 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
3564 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
226 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 French French
1017 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
356 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English
919 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German German
4299 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
7125 The Kitchen God's Wife Amy Tan 1991 American English
2586 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
3869 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
5804 Cyclops Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
2560 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
8652 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
728 Petersburg Andrei Bely 1913 Russian Russian
3419 Common Sense Thomas Paine 1776 British English
2842 What Is the What Dave Eggers 2006 American English
1053 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
2020 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 1997 American English
3290 Cyropaedia Xenophon -370 Greek Ancient greek
279 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 American English
7133 Atomic Habits James Clear 2018 American English
4674 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English
9242 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
3541 Daphnis and Chloe Longus -200 Greek Ancient greek
14643 De Anima Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
1521 Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 Russian Russian
445 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
1064 Antony And Cleopatra William Shakespeare 1606 British English
15624 The Bridal Canopy Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1931 Israeli Hebrew
1484 A Perfect Spy John le Carré 1986 British English