| 100% | SUE | 3 | Eugene —, 19th-century author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris |
| 40% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 35% | MALDOROR | 8 | Les Chants de —, 19th-century poetic novel by the Comte de Lautreamont |
| 35% | SAND | 4 | George —, 19th-century author of the novel Indiana |
| 35% | SAND | 4 | George —, 19th-century author of novels Indiana and Consuelo |
| 34% | LITTRE | 6 | Emile —, 19th-century author of Dictionnaire de la langue francaise |
| 34% | PUSHKIN | 7 | Aleksandr —, author of 1833 verse novel Eugene Onegin |
| 34% | PUSHKIN | 7 | Aleksandr —, author of the verse novel Eugene Onegin |
| 33% | LACLOS | 6 | Pierre Choderlos de —, French author of four-volume novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 33% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 33% | COCTEAU | 7 | Jean —, author of 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles |
| 32% | HUGO | 4 | Victor —, author of novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 32% | WHEELER | 7 | Ella ___ Wilcox, 19th century American author and poet known for "Poems of Passion" |
| 31% | POE | 3 | 19th-century author of creepy stories |
| 31% | POE | 3 | 19th-century author of creepy short stories |
| 31% | POE | 3 | 19th-century author of macabre short stories |
| 31% | FEUILLET | 8 | Octave —, 19th-century French author of novels Dalila and La Petite Comtesse |
| 29% | VICTOROO | 8 | Author of Les Miserables |
| 29% | ASCH | 4 | Author of biblical novels |
| 28% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Author of 1759 novel Candide |
| 28% | TROLLOPE | 8 | Author of the Barsetshire novels |
| 28% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author of the Godfather novels |
| 28% | STACPOOLE | 9 | Henry De Vere —, author of 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon |
| 28% | SAND | 4 | George —, 19th-century authoress of novels Indiana and Consuelo |
| 28% | TOMROBSMITH | 11 | Author of 2008 novel Child 44 |
| 28% | AYNRAND | 7 | Author of 1943 novel The Fountainhead |