| 100% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Kazuo —, author of novels The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans |
| 45% | SELF | 4 | Will —, author of novels The Butt and Dorian |
| 44% | NICOLEKRAUSS | 12 | US author of novels Great House and The History of Love |
| 43% | SELF | 4 | Will —, author of novels Shark, The Butt and Dorian |
| 43% | NICOLE | 6 | & 16D US author of novels Great House and The History of Love |
| 43% | NOON | 4 | Time of the day when the sun is fully up and about |
| 43% | HAWKE | 5 | Ethan —, US actor; author of novels Ash Wednesday and The Hottest State |
| 43% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Kazuo __, author of The Remains of The Day |
| 43% | ISHIGURO | 8 | Kazuo, author of The Remains of the Day |
| 42% | JOHNRINGO | 9 | US author of novels Against the Tide and Live Free or Die |
| 42% | JOHNOFARRELL | 12 | Author of the novels This Is Your Life and May Contain Nuts |
| 41% | WYNDHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| 41% | BRAGG | 5 | Melvyn —, author of novels Crystal Rooms and Now is the Time |
| 41% | LINDSAY | 7 | Jeff —, author of novels Dexter is Dead and Dexter in the Dark |
| 41% | EQUINOX | 7 | Either of the two occasions when day and night are of equal length |
| 41% | BOWLES | 6 | Paul —, US author of novels Let It Come Down and The Sheltering Sky |
| 41% | ECO | 3 | Umberto —, author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 40% | VIDAL | 5 | Gore —, US author of the novels Julian and Creation |
| 40% | ECO | 3 | Umberto —, late author of novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum |
| 40% | TWAIN | 5 | Mark —, US author of 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper |
| 40% | HIAASEN | 7 | Carl —, US author of the novels Lucky You and Sick Puppy |
| 40% | MAXTED | 6 | Anna —, author of the novels Being Committed and Getting Over It |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | George —, author of novels The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede |
| 39% | KAZUO | 5 | "The Remains of the Day" author Ishiguro |
| 39% | KAZUO | 5 | “The Remains of the Day” author Ishiguro |
| 39% | SPARK | 5 | Muriel —, author of novels The Girls of Slender Means and The Finishing School |
| 39% | JAKEARNOTT | 10 | Author of novels The House of Rumour and The Fatal Tree |