| 100% | MEREDITH | 8 | George —, author of novels Beauchamp's Career and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel |
| 51% | CRANE | 5 | Stephen —, author of novels George's Mother and The Red Badge of Courage |
| 47% | GISSING | 7 | George —, author of novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 46% | TREVOR | 6 | William —, author of novels Felicia's Journey and The Story of Lucy Gault |
| 45% | ELIOT | 5 | George —, author of novels The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede |
| 45% | TREECE | 6 | Henry —, author of novels Viking's Dawn and The Dark Island |
| 45% | STEPHEN | 7 | & 17A Author of the novels George's Mother and The Red Badge of Courage |
| 45% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 45% | OSMAN | 5 | Richard —, television presenter and author of novels including The Bullet That Missed |
| 44% | FORESTER | 8 | C S —, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower |
| 44% | PELECANOS | 9 | George P —, author of novels Nick's Trip and A Firing Offense |
| 44% | HOLLINGHURST | 12 | Alan —, author of novels The Sparsholt Affair and The Stranger's Child |
| 43% | PAULSAYER | 9 | Author of novels The Absolution Game and The Comforts of Madness |
| 42% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 42% | DUNANT | 6 | Sarah —, author of novels Mapping the Edge and The Birth of Venus |
| 41% | ELINORGLYN | 10 | Author of the novels Three Weeks and The Price of Things |
| 41% | FREYANORTH | 10 | Author of novels The Turning Point and The Way Back Home |
| 41% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 41% | ANNEBRONTE | 10 | Author of the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| 41% | MURDOCH | 7 | Iris —, author of novels The Bell and Bruno’s Dream |
| 41% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 41% | RIORDAN | 7 | Rick —, author of novel series Percy Jackson and the Olympians |
| 41% | UMBERTOECO | 10 | Author of the novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 40% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 40% | HAWTHORNE | 9 | Nathaniel —, author of novels The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun |
| 40% | CRONIN | 6 | A J —, author of novels The Green Years and The Citadel |