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
1438 Masnavi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1258 Persian Persian
974 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
14901 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
4758 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
15630 Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris Paul Gallico 1958 American English
1670 The Ordeal Of Richard Feverel George Meredith 1859 British English
3585 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
15629 The Three Theban Plays Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
13181 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 2013 Australian English
2943 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
1833 Histories Cornelius Tacitus 100 Roman Latin
15632 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
330 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980 American English
1818 Carry On, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1925 British English
183 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 American English
5811 Hymns And Epigrams Callimachus -239 Greek Ancient greek
2099 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
1800 A Time To Kill John Grisham 1989 American English
5812 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
4777 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
272 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni 1827 Italian Italian
1448 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 2004 French French
228 Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 French French
347 The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse 1943 German German
4214 Ion Euripides -413 Greek Ancient greek
15633 Fahrenheit 451 Tim Hamilton 1953 American English
4215 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
17010 The Napping House Audrey Wood 1984 American English
438 The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 1951 German English
4133 The Liars' Club Mary Karr 1995 American English
1250 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
3208 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See 2005 Chinese English
2416 Phaedrus Plato -370 Greek Ancient greek
9918 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004 American English
1664 The House of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazán 1886 Spanish Spanish
2318 Being Mortal Atul Gawande 2014 American English
1645 Phaedo Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
7113 Blanche Passes Go Barbara Neely 2000 American English
15634 The Complete Tales Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
15635 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
3536 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
1327 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
954 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 French French
2803 Summertime J. M. Coetzee 2009 South African English
1150 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
4158 The Good Lord Bird James McBride 2013 American English
1756 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth 1995 American English
2504 Metaphysics Aristotle -347 Greek Ancient greek
2950 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2006 Indian English
5006 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17010 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17010 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
8875 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
11499 Memorabilia Xenophon -371 Greek Ancient greek
315 Relativity Albert Einstein 1916 German German
365 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
13890 The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers 2014 American English
7724 The Ice Princess Camilla Läckberg 2003 Swedish Swedish
3121 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
2593 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson 2011 British English
14760 The Honourable Schoolboy John le Carré 1977 British English
1084 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
17010 Pete The Cat Kimberly Dean 2008 American English
1121 The Symposium Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
3819 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
6338 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
11808 Wayfarers Becky Chambers 2014 American English
13890 Daring Greatly Brené Brown 2012 American English
17010 The Portable Veblen Elizabeth Mckenzie 2016 American English
596 The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides -410 Greek Ancient greek
14165 Founding Brothers Joseph Ellis 2000 American English
1385 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian Italian
15637 My Father's Life (Continental Classics) Restif de La Bretonne 1779 French French
5814 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
4610 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
14901 Isaac's Storm Erik Larson 1999 American English
8673 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
848 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
17010 The Roads To Sata Kevin Booth 1985 Unknown English
14647 Musonius Rufus Musonius Rufus, Cynthia King -30 Mixed Greek
3252 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
8287 The Secret Life Of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2001 American English
2304 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
2498 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
14901 Press Here Herve Tullet 2010 French French
8609 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli 2000 American English
3476 The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 2002 Norwegian Norwegian
2195 Waiting Ha Jin 1999 Chinese English
2701 Natural History Pliny the Elder 77 Roman Latin
2393 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
702 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 British English
7893 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
4771 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
17010 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
701 Vathek William Beckford 1786 British French
1331 The Member Of The Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 American English
5815 Satires Lucian -160 Greek Ancient greek
15638 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
5333 Plainsong Kent Haruf 1999 American English
260 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
7070 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
734 Loving Henry Green 1945 British English
1068 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957 British English
1124 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
14691 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
1565 To Build A Fire Jack London 1902 American English
14901 A Psalm For The Wild Built Becky Chambers 2021 American English
3095 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
692 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
1267 Billy Budd Herman Melville 1924 American English
5305 Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1867 German German
14663 On Behalf Of Caelius Cicero -56 Roman Latin
6776 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
14664 Musashi Eiji Yoshikawa 1935 Japanese Japanese
3546 The Improvement of Human Reason Ibn Tufayl 1170 Arabic Arabic
739 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
1921 The Conquest Of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar -51 Roman Latin
2469 On Obligations Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Roman Latin
3804 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro 1982 British English