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
15746 The Complete Tales Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
13350 Hippocratic Corpus Hippocrates -429 Greek Greek
975 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
1730 The Mouse And His Child Russell Hoban 1967 American English
1438 Masnavi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1258 Persian Persian
2517 Hippolytus Euripides -428 Greek Ancient greek
2992 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English
15747 The Three Theban Plays Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
1671 The Ordeal Of Richard Feverel George Meredith 1859 British English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
14985 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
4767 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
1834 Histories Cornelius Tacitus 100 Roman Latin
15748 Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris Paul Gallico 1958 American English
2950 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
13214 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 2013 Australian English
1819 Carry On, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1925 British English
5822 Hymns And Epigrams Callimachus -239 Greek Ancient greek
15749 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
2105 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
182 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 American English
1448 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 2004 French French
4786 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
5823 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
273 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni 1827 Italian Italian
1801 A Time To Kill John Grisham 1989 American English
348 The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse 1943 German German
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
4219 Ion Euripides -413 Greek Ancient greek
15750 Fahrenheit 451 Tim Hamilton 1953 American English
440 The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 1951 German English
17152 The Napping House Audrey Wood 1984 American English
4220 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
4139 The Liars' Club Mary Karr 1995 American English
3214 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See 2005 Chinese English
1115 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
2422 Phaedrus Plato -370 Greek Ancient greek
1647 Phaedo Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
1665 The House of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazán 1886 Spanish Spanish
9936 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004 American English
2503 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
7127 Blanche Passes Go Barbara Neely 2000 American English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
13941 The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers 2014 American English
15752 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
367 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
1758 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth 1995 American English
1151 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
2808 Summertime J. M. Coetzee 2009 South African English
4163 The Good Lord Bird James McBride 2013 American English
17152 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
2509 Metaphysics Aristotle -347 Greek Ancient greek
17152 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
2958 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2006 Indian English
5016 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
11833 Wayfarers Becky Chambers 2014 American English
8891 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
11525 Memorabilia Xenophon -371 Greek Ancient greek
3127 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
315 Relativity Albert Einstein 1916 German German
7741 The Ice Princess Camilla Läckberg 2003 Swedish Swedish
17152 Pete The Cat Kimberly Dean 2008 American English
1123 The Symposium Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
2596 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson 2011 British English
7711 The Honourable Schoolboy John le Carré 1977 British English
3824 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
1086 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
8303 The Secret Life Of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2001 American English
13941 Daring Greatly Brené Brown 2012 American English
6349 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
849 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
596 The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides -410 Greek Ancient greek
1386 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian Italian
8690 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
5824 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
17152 The Portable Veblen Elizabeth Mckenzie 2016 American English
14985 Isaac's Storm Erik Larson 1999 American English
14232 Founding Brothers Joseph Ellis 2000 American English
4618 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
15753 My Father's Life (Continental Classics) Restif de La Bretonne 1779 French French
3258 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
14730 Musonius Rufus Musonius Rufus, Cynthia King -30 Mixed Greek
17152 The Roads To Sata Kevin Booth 1985 Unknown English
8625 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli 2000 American English
2207 Waiting Ha Jin 1999 Chinese English
2311 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
2399 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
470 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1907 British English
3479 The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 2002 Norwegian Norwegian
14985 Press Here Herve Tullet 2010 French French
2704 Natural History Pliny the Elder 77 Roman Latin
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
15755 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
14985 A Psalm For The Wild Built Becky Chambers 2021 American English
5826 Satires Lucian -160 Greek Ancient greek
17152 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
7909 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
4778 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
5342 Plainsong Kent Haruf 1999 American English
1309 The Member Of The Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 American English
702 Vathek William Beckford 1786 British French
734 Loving Henry Green 1945 British English
1071 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957 British English
7082 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
1567 To Build A Fire Jack London 1902 American English
1125 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
14779 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
3102 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
14749 On Behalf Of Caelius Cicero -56 Roman Latin
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
5314 Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1867 German German
1267 Billy Budd Herman Melville 1924 American English
1923 The Conquest Of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar -51 Roman Latin
740 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
3809 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro 1982 British English
17152 Mickey7 Edward Ashton 2022 American English
14751 Musashi Eiji Yoshikawa 1935 Japanese Japanese