| 100% | COMEY | 5 | Author of 2018's "A Higher Loyalty" |
| 59% | HORNBY | 6 | Author of High Fidelity, About a Boy |
| 52% | COMEY | 5 | "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership" author |
| 51% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of Amazon's top book of 2018 |
| 51% | XXXXXXXXXX | 10 | Author of 1902's "To Build a Fire" |
| 50% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 49% | STANLEE | 7 | Author of 2015's "Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir" |
| 49% | HAN | 3 | The "Solo" of 2018's "Solo: A Star Wars Story" |
| 48% | ELLROY | 6 | James —, author of 2009 novel Blood's a Rover |
| 48% | LADYGAGA | 8 | A star of 2018's "A Star Is Born" |
| 48% | FELIXSALTEN | 11 | Author of 1923 children's book Bambi, a Life in the Woods |
| 48% | JENNYOFFILL | 11 | Author of “Weather,” featuring a fictional podcast called “Hell and High Water” about cultural degeneracy and climate change (February, 2020) |
| 48% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 48% | KAT | 3 | ___ Chow, author of 2021's "Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir" |
| 47% | LSD | 3 | Source of a hippie's high |
| 47% | ENDORPHINS | 10 | Cause of a runner's high |
| 47% | AMIS | 4 | Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order |
| 47% | AMYTAN | 6 | Author of "Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir" (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017) |
| 46% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | Author of A Moveable Feast |
| 46% | PELECANOS | 9 | George P —, author of novels Nick's Trip and A Firing Offense |
| 46% | ZENITH | 6 | Highest point in a celestial body's arc of travel |
| 46% | WITHERS | 7 | The highest part of a horse's back |
| 46% | AVADUVERNAY | 11 | Director of 2018's "A Wrinkle in Time" |
| 46% | DEFOE | 5 | Author of a 1719 literary sensation |
| 46% | AESOP | 5 | Author of a hare racing story |
| 46% | BURGESS | 7 | Author of A Clockwork Orange: Anthony __ |
| 46% | PROSYATHLETE | 12 | Author of a dull sports memoir? |
| 45% | STRUNKANDWHITE | 14 | Authors of a classic style manual |
| 45% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 45% | GLEN | 4 | Fantasy author Cook, author of 2018's "Port of Shadows" |