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
1087 Suttree Cormac McCarthy 1979 American English
14682 How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
3299 The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien 1977 British English
2741 Dialogues of the Courtesans Lucian of Samosata 150 Unknown Ancient greek
3184 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
490 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 American English
6352 Girlfriend In A Coma Douglas Coupland 1998 Canadian English
1166 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 American English
2159 My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier 1951 British English
2632 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
1541 Eclogues Virgil -37 Latin Latin
604 The Blind Owl Ṣādiq Hidāyat 1937 Iranian Persian
2897 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
350 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
3096 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
2308 Backlash Susan Faludi 1991 American English
306 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
2538 The Artamonov Business Maxim Gorky 1925 Russian Russian
14048 Enneads Plotinus -270 Greek Greek
14644 Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik 1957 American English
2247 Correction Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
391 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 American English
15625 The Iliad / The Odyssey Homer -762 Greek Ancient greek
17010 So Many Ways To Begin Jon McGregor 2006 British English
14901 Lady Tan’s Circle Of Women Lisa See 2023 Unknown English
3576 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
7796 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
476 The Monk Matthew Lewis 1796 British English
1040 Danny The Champion Of The World Roald Dahl 1975 British English
4934 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
17010 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
710 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
8493 Euthyphro Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
564 Amerika Franz Kafka 1927 Czech German
5805 Epigrams Martial 86 Latin Latin
2732 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
5835 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
1374 The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima 1965 Japanese Japanese
17010 M Train Patti Smith 2015 American English
167 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961 British, Scottish English
4211 Epistles Horace 20 Latin Latin
635 The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955 British English
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
3186 The Age of Reason Thomas Paine 1794 British English
3250 The Theogony Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
575 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 British English
17010 More Letters Of Note Nikki Usher 2019 Unknown English
1233 Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1915 Japanese Japanese
3935 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
14049 Epistulae Pliny the Younger 100 Roman Latin
1563 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace 1997 American English
297 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
1842 Euclid's Elements Euclid -300 Greek Ancient greek
4512 When The Wind Blows Raymond Briggs 1982 British English
889 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 British English
5106 Le Lion Joseph Kessel 1958 French French
14165 The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up Marie Kondo 2011 Japanese Japanese
554 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence 1926 British English
191 Oblomov Ivan Goncharov 1859 Russian Russian
14645 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton 1942 American English
1361 Fragments Heraclitus -500 Greek Ancient greek
547 Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory 1485 British Middle english
2952 A Poem Without A Hero Anna Akhmatova 1960 Russian Russian
14686 My Friend Maigret Georges Simenon, Shaun Whiteside 1949 French French
1747 First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Russian Russian
669 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 1839 American English
15628 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French
811 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 1909 French French
14050 Geography Ptolemy 150 Greek Greek
1529 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 1990 American English
906 Hyperion Friedrich Holderlin 1797 German German
2972 The Demon Mikhail Lermontov 1829 Russian Russian
2254 Georgics Virgil 29 Latin Latin
2525 The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960 British English
2277 Smiley's People John le Carré 1979 British English
1256 Lives of the Caesars Suetonius 121 Roman Latin
2646 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
2845 A Bullet In The Ballet Caryl Brahms &S. J. Simon 1937 British English
1586 Germania Cornelius Tacitus 98 Roman Latin
495 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1953 British English
3207 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
9834 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
17010 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
1956 Demian Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
5009 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 2012 British English
2967 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 1997 American English
952 Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley 1913 British English
2018 Elizabeth Costello J. M. Coetzee 2003 South African English
839 Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima 1949 Japanese Japanese
523 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós 1887 Spanish Spanish
9200 Eats, Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss 2003 British English
14586 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 2010 British English
4212 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
2148 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
2990 Childhood Leo Tolstoy 1852 Russian Russian
5808 Helen Euripides -412 Greek Ancient greek
3168 Oblivion David Foster Wallace 2004 American English
1383 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
593 Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi 1831 Italian Italian
3449 The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone 1961 American English
5809 René François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1802 French French
2993 Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
2866 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman 1985 American English
410 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
4213 Heracles Euripides -416 Greek Ancient greek
656 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French
1047 Works and Days Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
2502 Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell 1959 American English
17010 The Midwife's Apprentice Karen Cushman 1995 American English
197 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 1928 British English
5810 Heroides Ovid 25 Roman Latin
2795 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty 1946 American English
5587 The Sound Of Things Falling Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2011 Colombian Spanish
13316 Hippocratic Corpus Hippocrates -429 Greek Greek
974 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
1728 The Mouse And His Child Russell Hoban 1967 American English
792 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
2512 Hippolytus Euripides -428 Greek Ancient greek
2985 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English