| 100% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 83% | BRAUTIGAN | 9 | Richard —, author of the novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America |
| 44% | JOHNIRVING | 10 | Author of novels In One Person and Last Night in Twisted River |
| 42% | BENOKRI | 7 | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 42% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 41% | BOWEN | 5 | Elizabeth —, author of novels The Last September and Eva Trout |
| 41% | MILWARD | 7 | Richard —, author of novels Apples and Ten Storey Love Song |
| 41% | OKRI | 4 | Ben —, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| 40% | HENRY | 5 | & 12D Author of novels Hunt the Slipper and Brothers in Law |
| 40% | ROBB | 4 | J D —, author of novels Divided in Death and Origin in Death |
| 40% | CLARY | 5 | Julian —, comedian; author of novels Devil in Disguise and Murder Most Fab |
| 40% | LINDSAY | 7 | Jeff —, author of novels Dexter is Dead and Dexter in the Dark |
| 40% | PHILLIPS | 8 | Caryl —, author of novels The Final Passage and In the Falling Snow |
| 40% | ANITA | 5 | &25A Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 40% | GISSING | 7 | George —, author of novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn |
| 40% | AMOSOZ | 6 | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| 39% | MEREDITH | 8 | George —, author of novels Beauchamp's Career and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel |
| 39% | CLARY | 5 | Julian —, comedian and author of novels Devil in Disguise and Murder Most Fab |
| 39% | ELLORY | 6 | R J —, author of novels City of Lies and A Quiet Belief in Angels |
| 39% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 39% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 38% | WILBURSMITH | 11 | Author of novels The Leopard Hunts in Darkness and The Eye of the Tiger |
| 38% | OSMAN | 5 | Richard —, television presenter and author of novels including The Bullet That Missed |
| 38% | ROTH | 4 | Philip —, author of novels The Plot Against America and Portnoy's Complaint |
| 38% | PROULX | 6 | Annie —, author of novels Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole |