| 100% | SPILLANE | 8 | Mickey —, author of novels I, the Jury and The Erection Set |
| 56% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer —, author of the novels The Keep and Look at Me |
| 54% | EGAN | 4 | Jennifer —, author of novels The Keep and Look at Me |
| 54% | PEARSE | 6 | Lesley —, author of the novels Remember Me and Father Unknown |
| 53% | MIKEHAMMER | 10 | Private eye in novels by Mickey Spillane, such as I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick |
| 52% | WELLS | 5 | H G —, author of novels The World Set Free and The Wonderful Visit |
| 52% | HAMMER | 6 | Mike —, private eye in novels by Mickey Spillane, such as I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick |
| 51% | FISCHER | 7 | Tibor —, author of novels Under the Frog and The Collector Collector |
| 51% | DUNANT | 6 | Sarah —, author of novels Mapping the Edge and The Birth of Venus |
| 51% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 51% | IAINBANKS | 9 | Author of the novels The Business and The Wasp Factory |
| 50% | PAULSAYER | 9 | Author of novels The Absolution Game and The Comforts of Madness |
| 50% | FREYANORTH | 10 | Author of novels The Turning Point and The Way Back Home |
| 50% | READE | 5 | Charles —, author of 1861 novel The Cloister and the Hearth |
| 49% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 49% | RIORDAN | 7 | Rick —, author of novel series Percy Jackson and the Olympians |
| 49% | WILLSELF | 8 | Author of novels Shark, The Butt and Dorian |
| 49% | WILLIAMSON | 10 | Henry —, author of novels Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon |
| 49% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 49% | HAWTHORNE | 9 | Nathaniel —, author of novels The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun |
| 49% | CRONIN | 6 | A J —, author of novels The Green Years and The Citadel |
| 49% | HAMMETT | 7 | Dashiell —, author of novels The Glass Key and The Maltese Falcon |
| 49% | SEBOLD | 6 | Alice —, author of novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely Bones |
| 49% | TWAIN | 5 | Mark —, US author of 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper |
| 49% | DUFFY | 5 | Stella —, author of novels London Lies Beneath and The Purple Shroud |
| 49% | TREECE | 6 | Henry —, author of novels Viking's Dawn and The Dark Island |