| 100% | HARDY | 5 | Thomas —, author of novels A Laodicean and Jude the Obscure |
| 53% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place |
| 53% | WHITE | 5 | Edmund —, author of novels A Boy's Own Story and The Farewell Symphony |
| 53% | BARSTOW | 7 | Stan —, author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 53% | STAN | 4 | & 21A Author of novels A Kind of Loving and The Watchers on the Shore |
| 53% | ALEC | 4 | & 19D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 53% | ALEC | 4 | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 53% | ALEC | 4 | & 22A Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth |
| 52% | MURDOCH | 7 | Iris —, author of novels The Bell and A Word Child |
| 52% | DONLEAVY | 8 | J P —, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |
| 52% | EDNAOBRIEN | 10 | Author of novels The Country Girls and A Pagan Place (4,1’5) |
| 52% | MANN | 4 | Thomas —, author of novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 51% | PYNCHON | 7 | Thomas —, author of novels Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49 |
| 51% | ONDAATJE | 8 | Michael —, author of novels Anil’s Ghost and In the Skin of a Lion |
| 50% | FRANKMUIR | 9 | Author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 49% | MANN | 4 | Thomas —, author of the novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |
| 49% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 48% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 48% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 memoir A Kentish Lad |
| 48% | JONATHANFRANZEN | 15 | Author of a 2001 novel about the Lambert family and a 2010 novel about the Berglund family |
| 48% | LEWYCKA | 7 | Marina —, author of the novels Two Caravans and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| 48% | HOGG | 4 | James —, Scottish author of 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
| 48% | CRONIN | 6 | A J —, author of novels The Green Years and The Citadel |
| 48% | ITALOSVEVO | 10 | Author of novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 47% | ALANSILLITOE | 12 | Author of novels A Man of His Time and Birthday |
| 47% | GARDNER | 7 | Erle Stanley —, author of 1937 novel The D. A. Calls It Murder and others featuring Doug Selby |
| 47% | SIANJAMES | 9 | Author of novels A Small Country and Return to Hendre Ddu |
| 46% | BURN | 4 | Gordon —, author of novels Alma Cogan and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel |
| 46% | MICHENER | 8 | James A —, author of novel Chesapeake and The Bridges at Toko-Ri |