| 100% | CHANG | 5 | Jung ___, author of the 1991 best seller "Wild Swans" |
| 60% | CHANG | 5 | Jung —, author of the volume of biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
| 58% | UPDIKE | 6 | Author of the #1 best seller "Couples" |
| 58% | OBAMA | 5 | Author of the 2018 best seller "Becoming" |
| 58% | OREILLY | 7 | Author of the 2006 best seller "Culture Warrior" |
| 57% | CHANG | 5 | Jung —, author of 1991 volume of biography Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
| 54% | SOBEL | 5 | Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" |
| 53% | ROYKO | 5 | Author of the best seller "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" |
| 53% | YUTANG | 6 | Lin ___, author of the best seller "The Importance of Living" |
| 52% | SUSANNAKAYSEN | 13 | Author of the 1993 New York Times best seller "Girl, Interrupted": 2 wds. |
| 52% | GILLIANFLYNN | 12 | Author of the 2012 New York Times best seller "Gone Girl": 2 wds. |
| 52% | CARR | 4 | Nicholas ___, author of the 2010 best seller "The Shallows" |
| 52% | BECCA | 5 | ___ Fitzpatrick, author of the 2009 best seller "Hush, Hush" |
| 52% | ATUL | 4 | ___ Gawande, author of the 2014 best seller "Being Mortal" |
| 51% | CELESTE | 7 | ___ Ng, author of the 2017 best seller "Little Fires Everywhere" |
| 51% | LEE | 3 | Min Jin ___, author of the 2017 best seller "Pachinko" |
| 50% | STIEGLARSSON | 12 | Author of the 2005 New York Times best seller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo": 2 wds. |
| 50% | HELEN | 5 | Sister ___ Prejean, author of the 1993 best seller "Dead Man Walking" |
| 49% | SLOANE | 6 | ___ Crosley, author of the 2008 best seller "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" |
| 45% | JACOBS | 6 | A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" |
| 44% | JKROWLING | 9 | Author of the best-selling book series in history |
| 44% | STOWE | 5 | Author of the 19th century's best-selling novel |
| 44% | DAHL | 4 | Author of the best-selling children's book "Matilda" |
| 44% | ROTH | 4 | Veronica ___, author of the best-selling "Divergent" series |
| 43% | JEANRHYS | 8 | Author of the novels Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea |
| 43% | REAGAN | 6 | Subject of the 1999 best seller "Dutch" |
| 43% | LONDON | 6 | "call of the wild" author |
| 43% | SCHWAB | 6 | Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" |
| 43% | HARRIETBEECHERSTOWE | 19 | Author of the century's best-selling novel (published 3/20/1852) |
| 43% | BRENEBROWN | 10 | Author of the best-selling self-help book "Daring Greatly": 2 wds. |