| 100% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 91% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 88% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 54% | WATSON | 6 | Winifred —, author of novels Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Odd Shoes |
| 54% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 52% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 50% | PELECANOS | 9 | George P —, author of novels Nick's Trip and A Firing Offense |
| 50% | ALANSILLITOE | 12 | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| 50% | SIANJAMES | 9 | Author of novels A Small Country and Return to Hendre Ddu |
| 49% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 48% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 48% | GALE | 4 | Patrick —, author of novels A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition |
| 48% | NICKHORNBY | 10 | Author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 48% | STOREY | 6 | David —, author of novels Radcliffe and This Sporting Life |
| 47% | SMILEY | 6 | Jane —, author of novels Moo and A Thousand Acres |
| 47% | NEWMAN | 6 | Andrea —, author of novels A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and A Sense of Guilt |
| 47% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 47% | STAN | 4 | & 21A Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 19D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 47% | ALEC | 4 | & 22A Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 47% | DONLEAVY | 8 | J P —, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |
| 47% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 46% | HORNBY | 6 | Nick —, author of novels About A Boy and A Long Way Down |
| 46% | AMBLER | 6 | Eric —, author of novels Epitaph for a Spy and Judgment on Deltchev |
| 46% | KELMAN | 6 | James —, author of novels A Disaffection and Kieron Smith, Boy |
| 46% | HARDY | 5 | Thomas —, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure |
| 45% | ANDRE | 5 | Author of the novels An Act of Terror and Other Lives |
| 45% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine |