| 100% | ALDO | 4 | Environmentalist ___ Leopold, author of the best-selling "A Sand County Almanac" |
| 54% | LAPPE | 5 | Frances Moore ___, author of the best-selling "Diet for a Small Planet" |
| 47% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author of the best-selling book series in history |
| 47% | DAHL | 4 | Author of the best-selling children's book "Matilda" |
| 47% | ROTH | 4 | Veronica ___, author of the best-selling "Divergent" series |
| 46% | SCHWAB | 6 | Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" |
| 46% | BRENEBROWN | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Daring Greatly": 2 wds. |
| 46% | CHIANG | 6 | Ted ___, author of the best-selling short-story collection "Exhalation" |
| 45% | SPENCERJOHNSON | 14 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Who Moved My Cheese?": 2 wds. |
| 44% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 43% | MARIEKONDO | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up": 2 wds. |
| 43% | SOLOMONNORTHUP | 14 | Author of the 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 43% | TARA | 4 | ___ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir "Educated" |
| 42% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 42% | CORMACMCCARTHY | 14 | Author of the 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| 41% | SOBEL | 5 | Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" |
| 41% | MARGARET | 8 | With 40-Across, author of the 1936 novel "Gone With the Wind," which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie |
| 41% | ERLE | 4 | First name of the best-selling American author of the 20th century (as of 1970) |
| 41% | ROYKO | 5 | Author of the best seller "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" |
| 41% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |
| 41% | RUBIN | 5 | Kids author of best-selling The Ice Cream Machine |
| 40% | TRISTANTZARA | 12 | Romania-born French author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart best known as a founder of Dadaism |
| 40% | UPDIKE | 6 | Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" |
| 40% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the 2018 best seller "Becoming" |
| 40% | LYNNECHENEY | 11 | Author of the children's book "A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women" |
| 40% | YUTANG | 6 | Lin ___, author of the best seller "The Importance of Living" |
| 40% | ALDO | 4 | Leopold who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” |
| 40% | OREILLY | 7 | Author of the 2006 best seller "Culture Warrior" |
| 40% | TOWNSEND | 8 | Best-selling author of "Up the Organization" |
| 40% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who was a neighbor of Twain in Hartford |