| 100% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | MacArthur Fellowship-winning author of "Between the World and Me" |
| 80% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi __, author of Between the World and Me |
| 66% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | "Between the World and Me" author who won a "genius grant" in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 64% | TANEHISICOATES | 14 | African-American author of "Between the World and Me," winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| 61% | COATES | 6 | "Between the World and Me" author, 2015 |
| 61% | COATES | 6 | "Between the World and Me" author Ta-Nehisi __ |
| 60% | COATES | 6 | Last name on the cover of Between the World and Me |
| 56% | COATES | 6 | Ta-Nehisi who wrote Between the World and Me |
| 52% | COATES | 6 | "Between the World and Me" writer |
| 51% | TANEHISI | 8 | "Between the World and Me" writer Coates |
| 51% | ROSE | 4 | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond |
| 50% | TANEHISI | 8 | Coates who wrote "Between the World and Me" |
| 50% | TANEHISI | 8 | "Between the World and Me" National Book Award winner Coates |
| 48% | BALLARD | 7 | J G —, author of novels Crash and The Drowned World |
| 48% | PEARSE | 6 | Lesley —, author of the novels Remember Me and Father Unknown |
| 48% | STUDSTERKEL | 11 | US author and broadcaster whose work The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| 48% | KARENRUSSELL | 12 | Author of the short-story collection "Orange World and Other Stories": 2 wds. |
| 47% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer —, author of the novels The Keep and Look at Me |
| 47% | SPILLANE | 8 | Mickey —, author of novels I, the Jury and The Erection Set |
| 47% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer —, author of novels The Keep and Look at Me |
| 46% | DALECARNEGIE | 12 | Author of the self-help book "How to Win Friends and Influence People": 2 wds. |
| 46% | GEORGE | 6 | & 23A Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 46% | WELLS | 5 | Author of "The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine" |
| 46% | NORMANMAILER | 12 | Author of the classic 1948 World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead": 2 wds. |
| 44% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British author of "Never Let Me Go" who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature : 2 wds. |
| 44% | ALAM | 4 | Author of Leave the World Behind |
| 44% | SALLY | 5 | I wrote "Conversations with Friends" and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year |