| 100% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| 32% | GOODONE | 7 | Jane who wrote "In the Shadow of Man" |
| 32% | TONI | 4 | Morrison who wrote, “I refuse the prison of ‘I’ and choose the open spaces of ‘we’ ” |
| 32% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 31% | MOZART | 6 | Composer who wrote his first concerto at the age of five |
| 31% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 31% | ERASMUS | 7 | Who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 31% | BRONTE | 6 | Who wrote "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" |
| 31% | SUNTZU | 6 | Who wrote "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" |
| 31% | MASHA | 5 | Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" |
| 31% | LENA | 4 | "Girls" star Dunham who wrote the book "Not That Kind of Girl" |
| 31% | ANA | 3 | Novelist Huang who writes the "Twisted" and "Kings of Sin" romance series |
| 31% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" |
| 31% | LENADUNHAM | 10 | "Girls" actress who wrote the memoir "Not That Kind of Girl": 2 wds. |
| 31% | BERMUDASORTS | 12 | Kind of people who choose to live in the North Atlantic? |
| 30% | LENADUNHAM | 10 | "Girls" actress/creator who wrote the 2014 memoir "Not That Kind of Girl": 2 wds. |
| 30% | ERASMUS | 7 | Dutch philosopher who wrote "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| 30% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 30% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 30% | SAGET | 5 | Actor/comedian Bob who wrote "Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian" |
| 29% | CLINT | 5 | First name of the man who played the Man with No Name |
| 29% | NED | 3 | First name of the man who lives next to Homer and Marge |
| 29% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" |
| 29% | STEPHENCHBOSKY | 14 | Author who wrote the film adaptation of his own "The Perks of Being a Wallflower": 2 wds. |
| 29% | ELIA | 4 | Essayist who wrote "Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment" |
| 29% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" |
| 28% | KAFKA | 5 | Franz who wrote "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us" |
| 28% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 28% | GEORGEWILL | 10 | Political commentator who wrote "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| 28% | RED | 3 | The M&M macot who removes his outer shell and says, "Oh, it's that kind of party." |