| 100% | SCHWAB | 6 | Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" |
| 52% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author of the best-selling book series in history |
| 52% | DAHL | 4 | Author of the best-selling children's book "Matilda" |
| 50% | BRENEBROWN | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Daring Greatly": 2 wds. |
| 49% | SPENCERJOHNSON | 14 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Who Moved My Cheese?": 2 wds. |
| 48% | MARIEKONDO | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ELJAMES | 7 | Author of the Fifty Shades trilogy of books |
| 43% | LAURANUMEROFF | 13 | Author of the "If You Give ..." children's book series: 2 wds. |
| 43% | ROTH | 4 | Veronica ___, author of the best-selling "Divergent" series |
| 42% | VERNE | 5 | Author of the quote "I am not what you call a civilized man!" |
| 42% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 42% | HAROLDKUSHNER | 13 | Author of the self-help book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ALDO | 4 | Environmentalist ___ Leopold, author of the best-selling "A Sand County Almanac" |
| 41% | LAPPE | 5 | Frances Moore ___, author of the best-selling "Diet for a Small Planet" |
| 40% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 40% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Author of the book that Times readers voted the best of the last hundred and twenty-five years |
| 39% | TARA | 4 | ___ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir "Educated" |
| 39% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 39% | PAULOCOELHO | 11 | Best-selling author of “The Alchemist” whose books, per one critic, “anesthetiz[e] . . . through the consoling reaffirmation of conventions” |
| 38% | THEDRAGONTATTOO | 15 | The ending of a best selling book that went onto the big screen |
| 38% | SOBEL | 5 | Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" |
| 38% | BAUM | 4 | Author of the Oz books |
| 38% | ERLE | 4 | First name of the best-selling American author of the 20th century (as of 1970) |
| 37% | KIPLING | 7 | Author of The Jungle Book: Rudyard __ |
| 37% | RLSTINE | 7 | Author of the "Goosebumps" book series |
| 37% | JANSSON | 7 | Author of the Moomin books, Tove __ |
| 37% | BAUM | 4 | Author of the original Oz books |
| 37% | ROYKO | 5 | Author of the best seller "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" |
| 37% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |
| 37% | RUBIN | 5 | Kids author of best-selling The Ice Cream Machine |