| 100% | SLOANE | 6 | ___ Crosley, author of the 2008 best seller "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" |
| 46% | WAS | 3 | "I ___ Told There'd Be Cake" (essay collection by Sloane Crosley) |
| 43% | ATUL | 4 | ___ Gawande, author of the 2014 best seller "Being Mortal" |
| 42% | JONG | 4 | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| 41% | UPDIKE | 6 | Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" |
| 41% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the 2018 best seller "Becoming" |
| 41% | OREILLY | 7 | Author of the 2006 best seller "Culture Warrior" |
| 40% | CARR | 4 | Nicholas ___, author of the 2010 best seller "The Shallows" |
| 40% | CHANG | 5 | Jung ___, author of the 1991 best seller "Wild Swans" |
| 40% | BECCA | 5 | ___ Fitzpatrick, author of the 2009 best seller "Hush, Hush" |
| 40% | LEE | 3 | Min Jin ___, author of the 2017 best seller "Pachinko" |
| 40% | CAKE | 4 | "I Was Told There'd Be ___" (essay collection by Sloane Crosley) |
| 39% | CELESTE | 7 | ___ Ng, author of the 2017 best seller "Little Fires Everywhere" |
| 39% | HELEN | 5 | Sister ___ Prejean, author of the 1993 best seller "Dead Man Walking" |
| 37% | SOBEL | 5 | Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" |
| 36% | ROYKO | 5 | Author of the best seller "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" |
| 36% | BONDS | 5 | Baseball great who was the subject of the 2006 best seller "Game of Shadows" |
| 36% | YUTANG | 6 | Lin ___, author of the best seller "The Importance of Living" |
| 36% | SUSANNAKAYSEN | 13 | Author of the 1993 New York Times best seller "Girl, Interrupted": 2 wds. |
| 36% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author of the 2012 New York Times best seller "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 35% | DANRHODES | 9 | Author of 2001 short story collection Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love |
| 35% | JUDYBLUME | 9 | Author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
| 35% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "The best American writer? The author of 'Beloved,' if you ask me." |
| 34% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 |
| 34% | SOME | 4 | "These are ___ of the best books I've ever read." |
| 34% | STIEGLARSSON | 12 | Author of the 2005 New York Times best seller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo": 2 wds. |
| 34% | DALAILAMA | 9 | With Desmond Tutu, co-author of the 2016 best seller "The Book of Joy" |
| 33% | CORMACMCCARTHY | 14 | Author of the 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SOLOMONNORTHUP | 14 | Author of the 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ROWLING | 7 | Best-selling author who was a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year |