| 100% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 66% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 56% | THEREWERENONE | 13 | "And Then ___," Agatha Christie's best selling novel published in 1939 about a group of strangers who arrive as guests on a private island: 3 wds. |
| 48% | DAHL | 4 | Author of the best-selling children's book "Matilda" |
| 47% | JEANRHYS | 8 | Author of the novels Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea |
| 47% | KOOMSON | 7 | Dorothy —, author of novels My Best Friend's Girl and The Ice Cream Girls |
| 44% | HASEK | 5 | Jaroslav —, Czech author of unfinished novel The Good Soldier Svejk |
| 44% | JOHNGRISHAM | 11 | Best-selling author of more than 30 novels, including 2017's "The Rooster Bar": 2 wds. |
| 44% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author of the best-selling book series in history |
| 44% | SARAHJMAAS | 10 | Best-selling author of the "Court of Thorns and Roses" and "Throne of Glass" "romantasy" series: 3 wds. |
| 44% | OCTAVIAEBUTLER | 14 | Author of the dystopian novel "Parable of the Sower" and its sequel, "Parable of the Talents": 3 wds. |
| 44% | EMILYBRONTE | 11 | Author of novel Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell |
| 43% | ROTH | 4 | Veronica ___, author of the best-selling "Divergent" series |
| 43% | KENKESEY | 8 | Author of the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| 43% | TARA | 4 | ___ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir "Educated" |
| 43% | ROBERTNOONAN | 12 | Author of novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, published posthumously in 1914 under the name Robert Tressell |
| 42% | SCHWAB | 6 | Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" |
| 42% | BRENEBROWN | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Daring Greatly": 2 wds. |
| 42% | CORMACMCCARTHY | 14 | Author of the 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 42% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 42% | TRESSELL | 8 | Robert —, pen name of the author of 1914 posthumously published novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
| 42% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | Author of the novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 42% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | Author of the Rabbit series who wrote the 1988 novel "S.": 2 wds. |
| 42% | ALDO | 4 | Environmentalist ___ Leopold, author of the best-selling "A Sand County Almanac" |
| 42% | TARA | 4 | Image on the cover of 1936's best-selling novel |
| 42% | UNSWORTH | 8 | Barry —, author of the novels Pascali's Island and Sacred Hunger |
| 42% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 41% | SPENCERJOHNSON | 14 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Who Moved My Cheese?": 2 wds. |
| 41% | TROLLOPE | 8 | Author of the Barsetshire novels |
| 41% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author of the Godfather novels |