The Greatest Authors of All Time

Ever wondered who the greatest authors of all time are? We've analyzed 759 diverse book lists to create this comprehensive ranking of literary masters. Our algorithm considers several key factors to determine each author's position:

This system ensures that authors with multiple enduring works are recognized, while still giving weight to the quality of individual books. The rankings are automatically calculated and updated as new lists are added to our database.

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Rank Author Total Score
1 Lee Child 102
2 Joy Williams 101
3 Marcel Pagnol 101
4 John Webster 101
5 H. L. Mencken 101
6 M. John Harrison 100
7 Naomi Klein 100
8 Mary McCarthy 100
9 Hans Fallada 100
10 Per Olov Enquist 100
11 Lois Lowry 99
12 Michel Tournier 99
13 Suzanne Collins 99
14 John Brunner 99
15 David Grossman 98
16 Raymond Radiguet 98
17 Cees Nooteboom 98
18 Sholem Aleichem 98
19 Geoffrey Household 98
20 Jonathan Carroll 98
21 Yannis Ritsos 98
22 Peter De Vries 97
23 Arkady Strugatsky 97
24 Richard Yates 97
25 Paul van Ostaijen 97
26 Saint-John Perse 97
27 Thomas Lovell Beddoes 97
28 Sandra Cisneros 96
29 Arthur William Upfield 96
30 Paul Scott 96
31 Dick Francis 95
32 Kim Stanley Robinson 95
33 André Schwarz-Bart 95
34 William Goldman 94
35 Wayne Johnston 94
36 William Dean Howells 94
37 William H. Gass 94
38 Patrick Leigh Fermor 94
39 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 93
40 Douglas Coupland 93
41 Ignazio Silone 93
42 Erich Fromm 93
43 Raymond Roussel 93
44 John Fante 92
45 Malcolm Gladwell 92
46 Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 92
47 John Keegan 92
48 Antal Szerb 91
49 Ousmane Sembène 91
50 Szabó, Magda 91
51 Jane Gaskell 91
52 Carlo Emilio Gadda 91
53 Nicholson Baker 91
54 Mary Renault 91
55 Anya Seton 91
56 F. Bordewijk 90
57 George Vierick 90
58 Stieg Larsson 90
59 Thomas Merton 89
60 F. Marion Crawford 89
61 Edmund Spenser 89
62 Derek Walcott 88
63 Prosper Mérimée 88
64 Montesquieu 88
65 Chuck Palahniuk 88
66 John Hawkes 88
67 Walter Benjamin 88
68 Margery Allingham 87
69 Stig Dagerman 87
70 François Villon 87
71 Bessie Head 87
72 Vladimir Mayakovsky 87
73 William Boyd 87
74 Ernesto Sábato 87
75 Christopher Priest 87
76 Helen DeWitt 87
77 James Kelman 86
78 Alfred C. Kinsey 86
79 Daniel Keyes 86
80 Nicholas Sparks 86
81 Ed McBain 86
82 Stephen Jay Gould 86
83 David Malouf 85
84 Michael Ende 85
85 John Banville 85
86 MacKinlay Kantor 85
87 Benjamin Disraeli 84
88 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 84
89 Malcolm Muggeridge 84
90 Tim Winton 84
91 Gillian Flynn 84
92 Jane Jacobs 84
93 Tommaso Landolfi 84
94 Kate Millett 83
95 Yōko Ogawa 83
96 Mark Helprin 83
97 Buchi Emecheta 83
98 Cyril Connolly 83
99 Gloria Naylor 83
100 Marlon James 82
101 W. R. Burnett 82
102 John Dewey 82
103 Frederik Pohl 81
104 William Kennedy 81
105 Mary Roberts Rinehart 81
106 Tracy Kidder 81
107 William Kotzwinkle 81
108 C. P. Snow 81
109 Jacqueline Wilson 81
110 Farley Mowat 80
111 Robert Stone 80
112 G. W. F. Hegel 80
113 Rose Tremain 80
114 Richard Condon 79
115 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 79
116 Cynthia Ozick 79
117 Richard Holmes 78
118 Antonin Artaud 78
119 Claire Keegan 77
120 Jean M. Auel 77
121 Robert Ludlum 77
122 Jack Finney 77
123 Ronald Firbank 76
124 Théophile Gautier 76
125 Alexander Laing 76
126 Jim Harrison 76
127 C. Vann Woodward 76
128 Havelock Ellis 75
129 Studs Terkel 75
130 Rebecca Solnit 75
131 Jacqueline Woodson 75
132 Colleen McCullough 75
133 Henri Barbusse 75
134 James Gleick 75
135 Gaius Julius Caesar 75
136 James Burnham 75
137 Miguel Angel Asturias 74
138 Franz Werfel 74
139 Alexander Pope 74
140 Ryszard Kapuscinski 74
141 Dubravka Ugrešić 74
142 Timothy Findley 73
143 Harley Granville Barker 73
144 Norbert Wiener 73
145 Amitav Ghosh 72
146 Luis Cernuda 72
147 Sarah Orne Jewett 72
148 Erica Jong 72
149 David Garnett 72
150 Robert Harris 72
151 Nicolae Breban 72
152 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 72
153 Hervé Guibert 72
154 Geoff Ryman 72
155 Marie NDiaye 71
156 David Adams Richards 71
157 Michael Connelly 71
158 Anne Enright 71
159 G. A. Bredero 70
160 Colin Dexter 70
161 Jon Krakauer 70
162 John Ashbery 70
163 Lawrence Wright 70
164 John Gardner 70
165 Ernst Bloch 70
166 Herman Gorter 70
167 Albert Wass 69
168 Edwin A. Abbott 69
169 Hildegard of Bingen 69
170 Hans Henny Jahnn 69
171 Kevin Barry 69
172 Ödön von Horváth 69
173 Joseph O'Neill 68
174 Jon Fosse 68
175 Greg Bear 68
176 Barack Obama 68
177 Margaret Millar 68
178 Gary Shteyngart 68
179 Reinaldo Arenas 68
180 Reinhold Niebuhr 67
181 Ron Chernow 67
182 Pierre Ronsard 67
183 Javier Cercas 67
184 Frank Wedekind 67
185 Gerald Durrell 67
186 Peter Weiss 66
187 Okot P'Bitek 66
188 Ha Jin 66
189 Erwin Panofsky 66
190 J. M. G. Le Clezio 66
191 Carlos Ruiz Zafon 66
192 B. Traven 66
193 Lin Yutang 65
194 Sarban 65
195 Herbjørg Wassmo 64
196 Marc Bloch 64
197 Richard Hughes 64
198 Francis Ponge 64
199 Lillian Smith 64
200 Rene Goscinny 64
201 Fredrik Backman 64
202 Epictetus 64
203 Irwin Shaw 63
204 Viet Thanh Nguyen 63
205 István Fekete 63
206 Anita Desai 63
207 Väinö Linna 63
208 Jim Crace 63
209 Alexandros Papadiamantis 63
210 Joseph Kessel 62
211 Colin MacInnes 62
212 Michael Cunningham 62
213 Anthony Doerr 62
214 Susan Orlean 62
215 Vikram Seth 62
216 Terry McMillan 62
217 Valeria Luiselli 61
218 Stratis Tsirkas 61
219 Jakob Wassermann 61
220 Dean R. Koontz 61
221 Cyril Hare 61
222 R. F. Kuang 61
223 Norah Lofts 61
224 Nicholas Blake 61
225 Irvine Welsh 61
226 Robert Pinget 61
227 Sherman Alexie 61
228 Christopher Morley 60
229 Antonio Tabucchi 60
230 Jerzy Kosinski 60
231 Stefan Heym 60
232 Katherine Paterson 60
233 Werner Heisenberg 60
234 Irène Némirovsky 60
235 Jan Morris 60
236 Tony Hillerman 59
237 Graham Swift 59
238 Leon Uris 59
239 Amor Towles 59
240 Kamala Markandaya 59
241 Poppy Z. Brite 59
242 Mark Z. Danielewski 59
243 Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 59
244 Joe Haldeman 59
245 Yu Hua 59
246 Paul Éluard 58
247 Sebastian Barry 58
248 Robert Westall 58
249 Eileen Chang 58
250 Athol Fugard 58
251 Marlen Haushofer 58
252 Adrienne Rich 58
253 Christina Georgina Rossetti 58
254 Noam Chomsky 58
255 Kālidāsa 57
256 Wendell Berry 57
257 Joanna Russ 57
258 C. L. R. James 57
259 Brandon Sanderson 57
260 Patricia A. McKillip 57
261 Judith Butler 57
262 Dennis Lehane 57
263 Kelly Link 57
264 John Mortimer 57
265 Richard Bach 57
266 Miroslav Krleža 56
267 Edward P. Jones 56
268 Lydia Davis 56
269 Fay Weldon 56
270 George P. Pelecanos 56
271 Robert Jordan 56
272 Per Wahlöö 56
273 Ian Rankin 56
274 Esther Forbes 56
275 Karl Jaspers 55
276 Alessandro Baricco 55
277 August Wilson 55
278 Angela Davis 55
279 Ryū Murakami 55
280 Jim Corbett 55
281 Ted Chiang 55
282 Frank McCourt 55
283 Dorothy Richardson 55
284 A. J. Liebling 54
285 Alfredo Bryce Echenique 54
286 Juan Carlos Onetti 54
287 Alistair MacLeod 54
288 Wilson Harris 54
289 John McPhee 54
290 William Manchester 54
291 James Plunkett 53
292 Tobias Wolff 53
293 Tarjei Vesaas 53
294 Mary Roach 53
295 Ishmael Reed 53
296 Jayne Anne Phillips 53
297 Miklos Banffy 52
298 Charles de Lint 52
299 Louis-Paul Boon 52
300 Karin Boye 52
301 John Green 52
302 Shel Silverstein 52
303 Ottessa Moshfegh 52
304 Emmanuel Bove 52
305 Philippa Pearce 52
306 David Halberstam 52
307 Mihail Sebastian 52
308 Eduard Mörike 52
309 Mickey Spillane 52
310 Zeruya Shalev 51
311 Vassilis Vassilikos 51
312 Kent Haruf 51
313 Victor Klemperer 51
314 Nicolas Bouvier 51
315 Russell Banks 51
316 Gershom Scholem 51
317 Fernand Braudel 51
318 Clifford D. Simak 51
319 Frederick J. Turner 51
320 César Aira 51
321 Cixin Liu 50
322 Henry Treece 50
323 Diamela Eltit 50
324 Charles Portis 50
325 Ivar Lo-Johansson 50
326 Jorge Semprún 50
327 Josef Škvorecký 50
328 Göran Tunström 50
329 Maurice Leblanc 50
330 Frank O'Hara 50
331 Riccardo Bacchelli 50
332 Tsitsi Dangarembga 49
333 Jeffrey Archer 49
334 David Jones 49
335 Paul Gallico 49
336 Rosario Castellanos 49
337 Tony Judt 49
338 Francis Parkman 49
339 Wilhelm Reich 49
340 Andre Norton 49
341 Jan Wolkers 49
342 David Peace 49
343 Rabih Alameddine 49
344 Henry Williamson 48
345 Brendan Behan 48
346 Hadewijch 48
347 Eugenio Montale 48
348 Mary Gaitskill 48
349 Nicolaus Copernicus 48
350 May Sarton 48
351 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 48
352 Jung Chang 48
353 Giosué Carducci 48
354 Ugo Foscolo 48
355 Philip Sidney 48
356 Assia Djebar 48
357 George Moore 48
358 Hjalmar Bergman 48
359 John Collier 48
360 Jean Echenoz 47
361 Pascal Quignard 47
362 Giuseppe Berto 47
363 Carl Hiaasen 47
364 Nnedi Okorafor 47
365 James Patterson 47
366 Leon Trotsky 47
367 Rick Riordan 47
368 Tana French 47
369 E. Phillips Oppenheim 47
370 Charles Lamb 46
371 H. Russell Wakefield 46
372 Witi Ihimaera 46
373 Shirley Hazzard 46
374 Ronald Searle 46
375 Doris Kearns Goodwin 46
376 Maurice Gee 46
377 Leslie Marmon Silko 46
378 Brian Jacques 46
379 Stephen Hawking 45
380 Maryse Condé 45
381 Jonathan Safran Foer 45
382 Anzia Yezierska 45
383 Wilhelm Hauff 45
384 Fletcher Pratt 45
385 Carl Zuckmayer 45
386 Tom Sharpe 45
387 Henri Bergson 45
388 Umberto Saba 45
389 Geoffrey Willans 45
390 Ben Jonson 45
391 Dennis Etchison 44
392 William Empson 44
393 Don Winslow 44
394 Charles Péguy 44
395 Helen Keller 44
396 Claudio Magris 44
397 Gerhart Hauptmann 44
398 Art Spiegelman 43
399 Johannes Kepler 43
400 Siegfried Sassoon 43
401 Kathy Acker 43
402 Rita Mae Brown 43
403 Sebastian Faulks 43
404 Gloria Anzaldúa 43
405 Jonathan Raban 43
406 Maurice Druon 43
407 Noah Webster 43
408 Whitley Strieber 42
409 Antonio Fogazzaro 42
410 Paul Claudel 42
411 Noel Coward 42
412 Jin Yong 42
413 Maggie O'Farrell 42
414 Nora Roberts 42
415 Thomas Hughes 42
416 Hillary Waugh 42
417 Emily St John Mandel 42
418 Bharati Mukherjee 41
419 E. F. Schumacher 41
420 Hanif Kureishi 41
421 Alasdair Gray 41
422 Alain de Botton 41
423 Charles Perrault 41
424 Allen Drury 41
425 James Welch 41
426 Sarah J. Maas 41
427 Lisa Goldstein 41
428 Sara Paretsky 41
429 Karen Blixen 41
430 Walter Van Tilburg Clark 41
431 Horace McCoy 40
432 Elizabeth Kolbert 40
433 Isabel Wilkerson 40
434 Peter Esterhazy 40
435 Christopher Hitchens 40
436 Stratis Myrivilis 40
437 Kostas Karyotakis 40
438 Craig Rice 40
439 Nora Ephron 40
440 George Herbert 40
441 Botho Strauß 40
442 Robert Silverberg 39
443 Philippe Djian 39
444 Reginald Hill 39
445 Jonathan Lethem 39
446 Saadi 39
447 J.H. Leopold 39
448 Gilles Deleuze 39
449 Maylis de Kerangal 39
450 Ama Ata Aidoo 39
451 Lionel Davidson 39
452 Alexis Wright 39
453 John Rawls 39
454 Maurice Maeterlinck 38
455 Connie Willis 38
456 Abraham Verghese 38
457 Jacob van Lennep 38
458 Thomas Tryon 38
459 Baroness Emmuska Orczy 38
460 Giovanni Papini 38
461 Gayl Jones 38
462 Camil Petrescu 38
463 Lisa Kleypas 38
464 Walter Mosley 38
465 Thomas Ligotti 38
466 Paul Horgan 38
467 Fernando Vallejo 38
468 Carry van Bruggen 38
469 Edward Abbey 38
470 Alyssa Cole 38
471 William Dalrymple 38
472 Bernard Cornwell 37
473 José Donoso 37
474 S. S. Van Dine 37
475 China Miéville 37
476 Lois McMaster Bujold 37
477 Rachel Kushner 37
478 Roald Amundsen 37
479 Richard Price 37
480 Steven Millhauser 37
481 J.J. Slauerhoff 37
482 Anton Holban 37
483 Susan Glaspell 37
484 Judith Kerr 37
485 Kerstin Ekman 37
486 Frantz Fanon 37
487 Karl Edward Wagner 37
488 Daniel Kehlmann 37
489 Gesualdo Bufalino 37
490 Yiannis Skarimbas 37
491 David Markson 36
492 Walter Jackson Bate 36
493 Mohsin Hamid 36
494 Bolesław Prus 36
495 Kristin Hannah 36
496 Tillie Olsen 36
497 William Eastlake 36
498 Eric Carle 36
499 J. P. Donleavy 36
500 Osamu Dazai 36
501 G. Călinescu 36
502 Wilhelm Karl Raabe 36
503 Jacob A. Riis 35
504 Michel Faber 35
505 George Gamow 35
506 Scott Turow 35
507 Francis Fukuyama 35
508 Julie Otsuka 35
509 Bob Woodward 35
510 Marge Piercy 35
511 Monika Maron 35
512 Klaus Mann 35
513 Matsuo Bashō 35
514 Eduardo Galeano 34
515 Matthew Arnold 34
516 Walter Savage Landor 34
517 Ben Okri 34
518 Jaime Hernandez 34
519 Beverly Jenkins 34
520 Hayyim Nahman Bialik 34
521 Ben Lerner 34
522 Joseph Payne Brennan 34
523 Leigh Bardugo 34
524 Pierre Michon 34
525 Moa Martinson 34
526 Daniil Kharms 34
527 Napoleon Hill 34
528 Daniel Woodrell 34
529 Christopher Paolini 34
530 Franklin W. Dixon 33
531 Manly Wade Wellman 33
532 Michael Bishop 33
533 Christianna Brand 33
534 Madeline Miller 33
535 Anne Lamott 33
536 Theodore Roosevelt 33
537 Anita Brookner 33
538 Vladimir Sorokin 33
539 Ludwig von Mises 33
540 William L. Shirer 33
541 Hanya Yanagihara 32
542 Steven Johnson 32
543 Alfred Bester 32
544 Patti Smith 32
545 Kurt Tucholsky 32
546 David Mamet 32
547 Walter Lippmann 32
548 Mavis Gallant 32
549 Vera Chapman 32
550 Ben Hecht 32
551 Elizabeth Smart 32
552 Nikos-Gabriel Pentzikis 32
553 David Morrell 31
554 H. E. Bates 31
555 Padgett Powell 31
556 Frank R. Stockton 31
557 A. E. van Vogt 31
558 V. S. Pritchett 31
559 Emma Donoghue 31
560 Per Anders Fogelström 31
561 Robert Lowell 31
562 Margaret Irwin 31
563 Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell 31
564 Miriam Toews 31
565 Edward W. Said 31
566 Maurice Genevoix 31
567 Yoko Tawada 31
568 Everett F. Bleiler 31
569 Jo Sinclair 31
570 Gertrude Atherton 31
571 Ellis Peters 31
572 David Grann 31
573 Samanta Schweblin 30
574 Dimitar Dimov 30
575 Lauren Groff 30
576 Jean Stafford 30
577 Zsigmond Móricz 30
578 James S. A. Corey 30
579 Nigel Kneale 30
580 Piers Paul Read 30
581 Tamora Pierce 30
582 Jay Wright 30
583 Simon Schama 30
584 Eleanor Catton 30
585 Redmond O'Hanlon 30
586 Nikos Engonopoulos 30
587 Sawako Ariyoshi 30
588 Timothy Mo 30
589 Aleksandar Hemon 30
590 F. Paul Wilson 30
591 Eugen Barbu 30
592 Arthur Ransome 30
593 Paul Eldridge 29
594 Hisham Matar 29
595 Frances A. Yates 29
596 Ilya Ehrenburg 29
597 William Finnegan 29
598 Mervyn Wall 29
599 Stevie Smith 29
600 Stefan George 29
601 Giordano Bruno 29
602 Thomas de Quincey 29
603 Robin McKinley 29
604 Robert Nathan 29
605 Ellen Datlow 29
606 Thomas Traherne 29
607 Harry Crews 29
608 Asne Seierstad 29
609 Walter Isaacson 29
610 Patrick Chamoiseau 29
611 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 29
612 Kálmán Mikszáth 29
613 William Congreve 29
614 Anthony Horowitz 29
615 Compton Mackenzie 29
616 Daniel Pennac 28
617 Lisa See 28
618 Beppe Fenoglio 28
619 Tomás Eloy Martínez 28
620 Jenny Erpenbeck 28
621 George MacDonald Fraser 28
622 Fănuș Neagu 28
623 Edmond Jabès 28
624 Ida B. Wells 28
625 Marquis James 28
626 Joseph Campbell 28
627 Barry Lopez 28
628 Edwidge Danticat 28
629 Angelos Sikelianos 28
630 Charlotte Armstrong 28
631 Gerrit Achterberg 28
632 Neil Postman 28
633 Jack Mann 28
634 Taylor Jenkins Reid 28
635 Norman Lewis 28
636 Julia Quinn 28
637 Mitch Albom 27
638 Bill Bryson 27
639 Nicolás Guillén 27
640 Joe R. Lansdale 27
641 Sándor Dallos 27
642 Ngaio Marsh 27
643 Edmund Morris 27
644 B. S. Johnson 27
645 James Kirke Paulding 27
646 Regina Maria Roche 27
647 Richard Davis 27
648 Elizabeth Hand 27
649 Evan S. Connell 27
650 Algis Budrys 27
651 Jaan Kross 27
652 Pat Conroy 27
653 United Nations 27
654 Velimir Khlebnikov 27
655 Mikhail Zoshchenko 27
656 Mark Salzman 27
657 Christine Campbell Thompson 27
658 Spike Milligan 27
659 Jessica Mitford 26
660 Freeman Wills Crofts 26
661 Jenő Rejtő 26
662 Jostein Gaarder 26
663 Donella H. Meadows 26
664 Charles Olson 26
665 Andy Weir 26
666 Emily Henry 26
667 Andrew Holleran 26
668 Walter Moers 26
669 Tomi Ungerer 26
670 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 26
671 Clifford Odets 26
672 Jessica Anderson 26
673 Abraham Joshua Heschel 26
674 Robert Macfarlane 26
675 Susanna Clarke 26
676 Amélie Nothomb 26
677 Gottfried Burger 26
678 Geraldine Brooks 26
679 Keigo Higashino 26
680 Anne Hébert 26
681 Massimo Bontempelli 25
682 Gabrielle Zevin 25
683 Monique Wittig 25
684 Ștefan Bănulescu 25
685 Anthony Boucher 25
686 Patricia Lockwood 25
687 Paolo Volponi 25
688 Gloria Steinem 25
689 Raduan Nassar 25
690 Leonid Andreyev 25
691 Joseph Mitchell 25
692 Walter Abish 25
693 Henry Kuttner 25
694 Audrey Niffenegger 25
695 Theodore Sturgeon 25
696 Constantin Țoiu 25
697 Eduardo Mendoza 25
698 Eric Knight 25
699 Edgar Hilsenrath 25
700 Chuck Klosterman 24
701 Janet Malcolm 24
702 Manuel Mujica Lainez 24
703 Torgny Lindgren 24
704 John Osborne 24
705 Robert Holdstock 24
706 Daniel Dennett 24
707 Carlos Drummond de Andrade 24
708 Jürgen Habermas 24
709 Rudolf Bultmann 24
710 Kateb Yacine 24
711 V. E. Schwab 24
712 Otfried Preußler 24
713 Zhuangzi 24
714 Péter Nádas 24
715 William Steig 24
716 Christoph Ransmayr 24
717 Ernest J. Gaines 24
718 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 24
719 Elinor Wylie 24
720 C. N. Manlove 24
721 Dava Sobel 24
722 Jeff VanderMeer 24
723 Ian Frazier 24
724 Wright Morris 24
725 Rosamunde Pilcher 23
726 Hugo Pratt 23
727 John Lanchester 23
728 Delmore Schwartz 23
729 Chris Ware 23
730 Sam Shepard 23
731 Caryl Churchill 23
732 Marina Tsvetayeva 23
733 Kate Grenville 23
734 Carter Dickson 23
735 Julia Child 23
736 A. L. Kennedy 23
737 James Lee Burke 23
738 Augustin Buzura 23
739 Matthew Desmond 23
740 Lucebert 23
741 Dana Dumitriu 23
742 Charles Frazier 23
743 John Gross 23
744 Michael Pollan 23
745 Ellen Kushner 22
746 F. R. Leavis 22
747 Donna Leon 22
748 D. T. Suzuki 22
749 Harry Kemelman 22
750 Charles De Gaulle 22
751 Patrick McCabe 22
752 A. B. Yehoshua 22
753 Susan Faludi 22
754 Robin Wall Kimmerer 22
755 Kirby McCauley 22
756 Brian Stableford 22
757 David Brin 22
758 Jean Améry 22
759 George Bălăiță 22
760 Ocean Vuong 22
761 Tahar Ben Jelloun 22
762 T. E. D. Klein 22
763 Hendrik Willem van Loon 22
764 Gianni Rodari 22
765 Judith McNaught 22
766 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 22
767 Amanda Cross 21
768 Joseph O'Connor 21
769 Lisa Tuttle 21
770 Avram Davidson 21
771 Henry M. Stanley 21
772 Lincoln Steffens 21
773 Jean Piaget 21
774 John Dryden 21
775 Fani Popova-Mutafova 21
776 Louis MacNeice 21
777 Sebastian Junger 21
778 Pai Hsien-yung 21
779 Molly Keane 21
780 Philippe Jacottet 21
781 John Millington Synge 21
782 Bryce Courtenay 21
783 Countess of Ségur. 21
784 Louise Penny 21
785 Patrick Rothfuss 21
786 György Konrád 21
787 Martha Wells 21
788 Lynn Coady 20
789 Chang-rae Lee 20
790 Samuel Eliot Morison 20
791 David Remnick 20
792 Nils Ferlin 20
793 Hugh Lamb 20
794 Anne Applebaum 20
795 Jack Zipes 20
796 Leigh Brackett 20
797 Tommaso Campanella 20
798 George Farquhar 20
799 George Darley 20
800 William Wycherley 20
801 Daša Drndić 20
802 N. Scott Momaday 20
803 Panaït Istrati 20
804 Roberto Calasso 20
805 Elizabeth Goudge 20
806 William H. McNeill 20
807 Mariana Enríquez 20
808 Xingjian Gao 20
809 Stuart David Schiff 20
810 Akwaeke Emezi 20
811 Aleksandar Tišma 20
812 Ann Leckie 20
813 Laszlo Németh 20
814 Raymond Briggs 20
815 Carol Ann Duffy 20
816 Francois Truffaut 19
817 Peter Dickinson 19
818 Franz Neumann 19
819 Eimear McBride 19
820 Chelsa quinn yarbro 19
821 Sheila Heti 19
822 John Scalzi 19
823 Karen Russell 19
824 John P. Marquand 19
825 Corrado Alvaro 19
826 Dacia Maraini 19
827 Albert Hirschman 19
828 Gilbert Hernandez 19
829 Helen Oyeyemi 19
830 Jonathan Coe 19
831 Susan Hill 19
832 Stephen Greenblatt 19
833 Arnaldur Indriðason 18
834 Carmen Martín Gaite 18
835 Joe Hill 18
836 Jan Fridegård 18
837 William M. Sloane 18
838 Gerald Murnane 18
839 Andrew Solomon 18
840 Elena Poniatowska 18
841 Georgi Gospodinov 18
842 Cornell Woolrich 18
843 Casey McQuiston 18
844 Ulf Lundell 18
845 Marie Luise Kaschnitz 18
846 Konstantin Paustovsky 18
847 Marina Warner 18
848 Peter B. Medawar 18
849 Suzy McKee Charnas 18
850 Bernard Wolfe 18
851 Tom Robbins 18
852 Timothy Snyder 18
853 Ida Gerhardt 18
854 Dumitru Radu Popescu 18
855 Enrique Vila-Matas 18
856 Gavin Lyall 18
857 Veijo Meri 18
858 Brenda Jackson 18
859 Jo Walton 18
860 Sergei Dovlatov 17
861 Lionel Shriver 17
862 Erik H. Erikson 17
863 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 17
864 Virginie Despentes 17
865 Vaclav Smil 17
866 Colleen Hoover 17
867 Steve Coll 17
868 Alfred Andersch 17
869 Hélène Cixous 17
870 B. F. Skinner 17
871 Graciliano Ramos 17
872 Julian Symons 17
873 Ronald Knox 17
874 Andrew Miller 17
875 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 17
876 Siddhartha Mukherjee 17
877 Walter Kempowski 17
878 Stephen Baxter 17
879 Can Xue 17
880 Lewis Mumford 17
881 George Santayana 17
882 Jo Nesbø 17
883 Joy Chant 17
884 Pauli Murray 17
885 Edward Bond 17
886 Anna Funder 17
887 René Guénon 17
888 Lillian Hellman 17
889 Alison Lurie 17
890 Angela Thirkell 17
891 Hugh Lofting 17
892 Roxane Gay 17
893 Olivia Manning 17
894 Herbert Marcuse 16
895 Alvaro Mutis 16
896 Stephen Graham Jones 16
897 Richard Ben Cramer 16
898 Donna Morrissey 16
899 Max Planck 16
900 Will Self 16
901 Simon Winchester 16
902 Yasushi Inoue 16
903 Robert Hichens 16
904 Ron Hansen 16
905 Mahmoud Darwish 16
906 William Beebe 16
907 Giuseppe Ungaretti 16
908 Robert Garnier 16
909 Christopher Smart 16
910 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 16
911 W. S. Gilbert 16
912 Desmond Bagley 16
913 Seanan McGuire 16
914 Maggie Stiefvater 16
915 Jeannette Walls 16
916 Brigitte Reimann 16
917 Scott Smith 16
918 Eric Newby 16
919 Paul Verlaine 15
920 Nalo Hopkinson 15
921 Jonathan Haidt 15
922 Jane Yolen 15
923 Rafael Chirbes 15
924 Naomi Novik 15
925 John Sladek 15
926 Peter Hessler 15
927 George Wilson Knight 15
928 Miguel Delibes 15
929 Cherríe Moraga 15
930 Claire Messud 15
931 Richard Flanagan 15
932 Alan Warner 15
933 Michael Scott 15
934 Kate DiCamillo 15
935 Jill Lepore 15
936 M. P. Shiel 15
937 Israel Joshua Singer 15
938 George Dangerfield 15
939 Tom McCarthy 15
940 Charles Beaumont 15
941 Richard Ellmann 15
942 Jude Deveraux 15
943 Cecil Woodham-Smith 15
944 Vivian Gornick 15
945 Benjamin Alire Sáenz 15
946 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 15
947 Jamal al- Ghitani 15
948 Orly Castel-Bloom 15
949 Amartya Sen 15
950 Siri Hustvedt 15
951 Mary Higgins Clark 14
952 John Muir 14
953 Patrick Radden Keefe 14
954 Howard Fast 14
955 Kenneth Burke 14
956 Léopold Sédar Senghor 14
957 João Ubaldo Ribeiro 14
958 Donal Ryan 14
959 Ahmadou Kourouma 14
960 A. R. Ammons 14
961 Alexander Kluge 14
962 Jie Zhang 14
963 Olivia Laing 14
964 Mark Kurlansky 14
965 Kwame Nkrumah 14
966 Giorgos Heimonas 14
967 Will Durant 14
968 José de Alencar 14
969 Michael Rosen 14
970 Atul Gawande 14
971 Georg Simmel 14
972 John Berryman 14
973 Bernard MacLaverty 14
974 Kenneth Clark 14
975 José Eduardo Agualusa 14
976 W. S. Merwin 14
977 Robert Sapolsky 14
978 Lloyd Jones 14
979 Sabaa Tahir 14
980 John Barry 14
981 Emilian Stanev 14
982 S. A. Cosby 14
983 David Storey 14
984 Andrey Voznesensky 13
985 Stefan Wul 13
986 Lalla Romano 13
987 Freidrich Hölderlin 13
988 Alan Duff 13
989 Shaun Tan 13
990 George Packer 13
991 Nelson DeMille 13
992 Thomas Tessier 13
993 James West Davidson 13
994 Lynne Reid Banks 13
995 Jane Gardam 13
996 Téa Obreht 13
997 Jojo Moyes 13
998 H. Warner Munn 13
999 Rebecca Makkai 13
1000 Sophie Kinsella 13