| 100% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of the novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 91% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 57% | LOTT | 4 | Tim —, author of novels White City Blue and Under the Same Stars |
| 55% | SHUTE | 5 | Nevil —, author of the novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump |
| 52% | ALLENDE | 7 | Isabel —, author of novels City of the Beasts and The Island Beneath the Sea |
| 51% | CALVINO | 7 | Italo —, Italian author of the novels Invisible Cities and The Nonexistent Knight |
| 50% | CLARKE | 6 | Arthur C —, author of science fiction novels The Sands of Mars and Prelude to Space |
| 49% | SHUTE | 5 | Nevil —, author of novels On the Beach and Beyond the Black Stump |
| 49% | LONDON | 6 | Jack —, author of novels The Sea-Wolf and White Fang |
| 49% | KOESTLER | 8 | Arthur —, author of novels The Call-Girls and Darkness at Noon |
| 48% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 48% | MONSARRAT | 9 | Nicholas —, author of novels Castle Garac and The White Rajah |
| 47% | SEBOLD | 6 | Alice —, author of the novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones |
| 47% | TARTT | 5 | Donna —, author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend |
| 47% | FAYWELDON | 9 | Author of the novels The Bulgari Connection and Big Women |
| 47% | GASH | 4 | Jonathan —, author of the novels Every Last Cent and The Ten Word Game |
| 46% | ANNERICE | 8 | Author of the novels Angel Time, Violin and Merrick |
| 46% | DONDELILLO | 10 | Author of the novels Zero K, Libra and Underworld |
| 46% | JAMES | 5 | Author of the novels Deliverance and Alnilam |
| 46% | STEPHEN | 7 | & 17A Author of the novels George's Mother and The Red Badge of Courage |
| 46% | TREVOR | 6 | William —, author of the novels Felicia's Journey and The Story of Lucy Gault |
| 46% | KUREISHI | 8 | Hanif —, author of the novels The Black Album and Intimacy |
| 46% | JANEAUSTEN | 10 | Author of the novels Persuasion and Mansfield Park |
| 46% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | Author of the novels Finnegans Wake and Ulysses |
| 46% | GRAHAMSWIFT | 11 | Author of the novels Shuttlecock and Mothering Sunday |
| 46% | EDNAFERBER | 10 | Author of the novels Giant and Ice Palace |
| 46% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 46% | TURGENEV | 8 | Ivan —, Russian author of the novels Rudin and Fathers and Sons |
| 46% | BAGLEY | 6 | Desmond —, author of the novels Windfall, Juggernaut and The Snow Tiger |
| 46% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of the novels The Last September and Eva Trout |