| 100% | OHARA | 5 | John —, author of 1935 novel BUtterfield 8 |
| 97% | OHARA | 5 | John —, author of 1935 novel BUtterfield 8 (1’4) |
| 57% | CARR | 4 | John Dickson —, author of 1935 mystery novel The Hollow Man |
| 55% | DURRELL | 7 | Lawrence —, author of 1935 novel Pied Piper of Lovers |
| 53% | CARR | 4 | John Dickson —, author of the 1935 mystery novel The Hollow Man |
| 53% | READ | 4 | Herbert —, poet, art critic and author of 1935 novel The Green Child |
| 48% | BUCHAN | 6 | John —, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| 48% | BRAINE | 6 | John —, author of 1957 novel Room at the Top |
| 48% | GALSWORTHY | 10 | John —, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga |
| 48% | FOWLES | 6 | John —, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin |
| 47% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 47% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 46% | RECTOR | 6 | John —, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone |
| 46% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 46% | WYNDHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| 46% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 46% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 46% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 46% | CARR | 4 | John Dickson —, author of 1935 mystery The Hollow Man |
| 45% | OHARA | 5 | “Butterfield 8” author John |
| 45% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 45% | BARTH | 5 | John —, author of novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy |
| 44% | EAST | 4 | "___ of Eden," novel by American author John Steinbeck set in Salinas Valley, California |
| 42% | CASE | 4 | John —, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn Hougan |
| 41% | ASCH | 4 | Author of biblical novels |
| 41% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by American author John Steinbeck based on the struggles of migrant farmworkers |
| 41% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Author of 1759 novel Candide |
| 41% | TROLLOPE | 8 | Author of the Barsetshire novels |
| 41% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author of the Godfather novels |