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 Cristanne Miller 0
2 Fosse, Jon 0
3 Joe Casey 0
4 Petra Hammesfahr 0
5 Irena Dousková 0
6 Tim Brown 0
7 Bernard Mandeville 0
8 Aaron Ralston 0
9 Alexandra Hudson 0
10 Larry Clark 0
11 Andy Maslen 0
12 Riichi Yokomitsu 0
13 Jun Ishikawa 0
14 Bruno Latour 0
15 C Harry 0
16 James Norbury 0
17 Miyake Kaho 0
18 Claude M. Steele 0
19 Teresa de la Parra 0
20 Navaz Batliwalla 0
21 Lili Anolik 0
22 Леонід Кононович 0
23 William Petty 0
24 James Wood 0
25 Robert McCrum 0
26 Jessi Kneeland 0
27 Morgan Talty 0
28 Brian Allen Carr 0
29 Copi 0
30 Jan Zahradníček 0
31 Louis Vaculík 0
32 Takashi Matsuoka 0
33 Winston Graham 0
34 Yusuke Kishi 0
35 Sofi Thanhauser 0
36 Rosemary Kirstein 0
37 Francis Wheen 0
38 Parke Godwin 0
39 Peter Mendelsund 0
40 Alexa Martin 0
41 Simona Ahrnstedt 0
42 Michael Chu 0
43 Nicola Graimes 0
44 Yuan Yang 0
45 Caroline Myss 0
46 Pavel Šrut 0
47 Petr Borkovec 0
48 Vlastimil Třešňák 0
49 Kōyō Ozaki 0
50 Carolyn Jess-Cooke 0
51 Picoult Jodi Van Leer Samantha 0
52 Encho Sanyutei 0
53 Jennifer Brown 0
54 J. H. Krchovský 0
55 J.L. Collins 0
56 Axie Oh 0
57 Melody Beattie 0
58 Andrew R. Robinson 0
59 Joshua Dysart 0
60 Hannah Ritchie 0
61 Brian Evenson 0
62 Mateo García Elizondo 0
63 Giorgio Agamben 0
64 Carlos Galán Rubio 0
65 Luis Mateo Díez 0
66 Giancarlo Caracuzzo 0
67 Max. Drefcher 0
68 Bohdan Arct 0
69 Rafał Tomański 0
70 Marcin Bruczkowski 0
71 Eliza Gatewood Warren 0
72 Marilou Addison 0
73 Jody Houser 0
74 Emily Skrutskie 0
75 Emanuel Frynta 0
76 Ladislav Smoljak 0
77 Kathleen Jamie 0
78 Rebecca Thorne 0
79 Alexander Grin 0
80 Ivo Michiels 0
81 Cyriel Buysse 0
82 Karel van de Woestijne 0
83 Jan van Ruusbroec 0
84 Vladimir Voinovich 0
85 Liuko Dashvar 0
86 Lucy Clarke 0
87 Steven H. Strogatz 0
88 Jan Procházka 0
89 Jeff Lemire 0
90 Maria Montessori 0
91 William W. Rowe 0
92 Eva Gesine Baur 0
93 Djaïli Amadou Amal 0
94 Barbara Tversky 0
95 Amir Raz 0
96 Ciel Pierlot 0
97 Julia Kornberg 0
98 Karel Michal 0
99 NOT A BOOK 0
100 Andrea Zanzotto 0
101 Lewis B. Puller 0
102 Wojciech Cejrowski 0
103 Edvard Valenta 0
104 Eric Schmidt 0
105 Camille DeAngelis 0
106 Gregory White Smith 0
107 Sophus Helle 0
108 Ole Lund Kirkegaard 0
109 Keith Ablow 0
110 Sara A. Mueller 0
111 Thomas Graham Jackson 0
112 Oliver Morton 0
113 Wendelin Van Draanen 0
114 Paul Cummings 0
115 Joanna Gierak-Onoszko 0
116 Wit Szostak 0
117 Elisabeth Hyde 0
118 Sylvie Baussier 0
119 Wensley Clarkson 0
120 Eileen M. Collins 0
121 Jane Elliott 0
122 Rosie Dickins 0
123 Stijn Streuvels 0
124 Guido Gezelle 0
125 Anna Bijns 0
126 Hendrik van Veldeke 0
127 Miroslav Zikmund 0
128 Paco Roca 0
129 Dahlia de la Cerda 0
130 Brenda Wineapple 0
131 Patty Schemel 0
132 Gretchen Bakke 0
133 Gus Moreno 0
134 Tōson Shimazaki 0
135 Mariko Asabuki 0
136 Kate Alice Marshall 0
137 Johanna van Veen 0
138 Pete Cohen 0
139 Ariel Durant 0
140 Jane Carter Woodrow 0
141 Jiří Orten 0
142 George Layton 0
143 Edward Burton 0
144 Isabelle Thomas 0
145 Leonid Filatov 0
146 Xavier Herbert 0
147 Ben Shattuck 0
148 Manuel Altolaguirre 0
149 James Gavin 0
150 Max Goldt 0
151 R.S.A. Garcia 0
152 Israel Regardie 0
153 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 0
154 Stephen Walsh 0
155 Kai-Fu Lee 0
156 Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz 0
157 Hiroshi Ogiwara 0
158 Sarah Ford 0
159 Debbie Harrold 0
160 Eduard Bass 0
161 Malvina G. Vogel 0
162 Tiffany Haddish 0
163 Jiří Orten 0
164 Robert W. Winters 0
165 Terry Sturm 0
166 Emma Chase 0
167 葉山嘉樹 0
168 Yasutaka Tsutsui 0
169 Callie Hart 0
170 Amanda Foreman 0
171 Miranda Cowley Heller 0
172 Jill Dawson 0
173 Remco Campert 0
174 Emily Mainquist 0
175 Max Neumann 0
176 Alison Stilwell Cameron 0
177 Ivan Yefremov 0
178 Stephen Leather 0
179 Ángeles Mastretta 0
180 Jason Sizemore 0
181 Jiří Voskovec 0
182 Mungo Park 0
183 Dámaso Alonso 0
184 Gerardo Diego 0
185 Joan Fuster 0
186 Jaume Fuster 0
187 David J. Garrow 0
188 Elizabeth Frank 0
189 Charles Lindbergh 0
190 Michael Brian Schiffer 0
191 Glen Merzer 0
192 Christelle Molon 0
193 Brennan Manning 0
194 Caroline Mitchell 0
195 Іван Франко 0
196 Somers Clarke 0
197 Tigest Girma 0
198 Christine Calella 0
199 Roland Martin 0
200 Emilio Prados 0
201 Leandro Fernández de Moratín 0
202 Kyōka Izumi 0
203 Izumi Kizara 0
204 Sarah A. Parker 0
205 Pamela A. Popper 0
206 Will Dean 0
207 Monika Kim 0
208 Anita Frank 0
209 Robert Chitham 0
210 Penn Cole 0
211 A.J. Waines 0
212 Andy Boroveshengra 0
213 Maryse Meijer 0
214 Michael Reeves 0
215 Jeannette Ng 0
216 Lynn Visson 0
217 Jeremy Lent 0