| 100% | KEATING | 7 | H R F —, author of 2008 novel Inspector Ghote's First Case |
| 37% | TOMROBSMITH | 11 | Author of 2008 novel Child 44 |
| 35% | HELLER | 6 | Zoe —, author of 2008 novel The Believers |
| 34% | HEINEY | 6 | Rose —, author of 2008 novel The Days of Judy B |
| 34% | MURASAKISHIKIBU | 15 | Author of “The Tale of Genji,” often called the world’s first novel |
| 33% | IANRANKIN | 9 | Author of the Inspector Rebus novels |
| 32% | ADIGA | 5 | Aravind —, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger |
| 30% | BENTLEY | 7 | Edmund Clerihew —, author of 1913 novel Trent's Last Case |
| 30% | BLACKMORE | 9 | R D —, author of 1869 novel Lorna Doone |
| 30% | PALACIO | 7 | R. J. __, author of moving novel Wonder |
| 30% | EMILYBRONTE | 11 | Author of novel Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell |
| 29% | ANSTEY | 6 | F —, author of novels The Tinted Venus and Vice Versa |
| 29% | BENSON | 6 | E F —, author of 1920 novel Queen Lucia |
| 28% | HINTON | 6 | S E —, author of 1967 novel The Outsiders |
| 28% | HINTON | 6 | S E -, author of 1967 novel The Outsiders |
| 28% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Author of 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| 28% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 28% | ANNHALAM | 8 | Author of novels Dr Franklin's Island and Siberia |
| 28% | NICKLAIRD | 9 | Author of novels Glover's Mistake and Utterly Monkey |
| 28% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 27% | OUTOFTHE | 8 | & 22A 1938 C S Lewis novel; first part of the Space Trilogy |
| 27% | BALLANTYNE | 10 | R M —, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island |
| 27% | NARAYAN | 7 | R K —, author of novels The Guide and The Painter of Signs |
| 27% | KENKESEY | 8 | Author of the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| 27% | MORPURGO | 8 | Michael —, author of 1982 children’s novel War Horse |
| 27% | BERESFORD | 9 | Elisabeth —, author of 1968 children's novel The Wombles |