https://thegreatestbooks.org/authors/
| Plaats | Auteur | Score | Land |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 16617 | |
| 2 | Charles Dickens | 15477 | |
| 3 | William Shakespeare | 14477 | |
| 4 | William Faulkner | 14440 | |
| 5 | Virginia Woolf | 13500 | |
| 6 | Leo Tolstoy | 12798 | |
| 7 | Ernest Hemingway | 11841 | |
| 8 | Franz Kafka | 11811 | |
| 9 | Thomas Mann | 11007 | |
| 10 | James Joyce | 10991 | |
| 11 | Vladimir Nabokov | 10503 | |
| 12 | Jane Austen | 10442 | |
| 13 | George Orwell | 10188 | |
| 14 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9202 | |
| 15 | Albert Camus | 8656 | |
| 16 | Joseph Conrad | 8549 | |
| 17 | Henry James | 7874 | |
| 18 | Gustave Flaubert | 7810 | |
| 19 | Herman Melville | 7587 | |
| 20 | John Steinbeck | 7414 | |
| 21 | Mark Twain | 7327 | |
| 22 | George Eliot | 6829 | |
| 23 | J. R. R. Tolkien | 6586 | |
| 24 | Sophocles | 6447 | |
| 25 | Gabriel García Márquez | 6257 | |
| 26 | Samuel Beckett | 6222 | |
| 27 | Graham Greene | 5561 | |
| 28 | E. M. Forster | 5481 | |
| 29 | D. H. Lawrence | 5218 | |
| 30 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 5199 | |
| 31 | Thomas Hardy | 4958 | |
| 32 | Jorge Luis Borges | 4897 | |
| 33 | Alexandre Dumas | 4839 | |
| 34 | Victor Hugo | 4830 | |
| 35 | Honoré de Balzac | 4797 | |
| 36 | Edith Wharton | 4783 | |
| 37 | Hermann Hesse | 4690 | |
| 38 | Anton Chekhov | 4664 | |
| 39 | Agatha Christie | 4542 | |
| 40 | Evelyn Waugh | 4500 | |
| 41 | J. D. Salinger | 4350 | |
| 42 | Lewis Carroll | 4333 | |
| 43 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 4197 | |
| 44 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 4136 | |
| 45 | Raymond Chandler | 4092 | |
| 46 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4028 | |
| 47 | T. S. Eliot | 3938 | |
| 48 | Edgar Allan Poe | 3841 | |
| 49 | Marcel Proust | 3777 | |
| 50 | Aldous Huxley | 3725 | |
| 51 | C. S. Lewis | 3721 | |
| 52 | H. G. Wells | 3629 | |
| 53 | Willa Cather | 3625 | |
| 54 | Nikolai Gogol | 3598 | |
| 55 | Dashiell Hammett | 3582 | |
| 56 | Toni Morrison | 3314 | |
| 57 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 3312 | |
| 58 | Flannery O'Connor | 3281 | |
| 59 | Daniel Defoe | 3236 | |
| 60 | Walt Whitman | 3105 | |
| 61 | Sigmund Freud | 3068 | |
| 62 | Italo Calvino | 3055 | |
| 63 | Plato | 3020 | |
| 64 | Daphne du Maurier | 3018 | |
| 65 | Miguel de Cervantes | 2972 | |
| 66 | E. B. White | 2972 | |
| 67 | Philip Roth | 2949 | |
| 68 | Oscar Wilde | 2936 | |
| 69 | Émile Zola | 2908 | |
| 70 | Jonathan Swift | 2897 | |
| 71 | André Gide | 2886 | |
| 72 | Voltaire | 2866 | |
| 73 | Jean Paul Sartre | 2815 | |
| 74 | Stendhal | 2787 | |
| 75 | Doris May Lessing | 2751 | |
| 76 | Kurt Vonnegut | 2747 | |
| 77 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 2705 | |
| 78 | William Golding | 2674 | |
| 79 | Saul Bellow | 2623 | |
| 80 | Jack London | 2578 | |
| 81 | John Updike | 2542 | |
| 82 | Ray Bradbury | 2538 | |
| 83 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 2493 | |
| 84 | W. Somerset Maugham | 2483 | |
| 85 | Ivan Turgenev | 2476 | |
| 86 | Charlotte Brontë | 2474 | |
| 87 | Dorothy L. Sayers | 2447 | |
| 88 | Sir Walter Scott | 2434 | |
| 89 | James Baldwin | 2411 | |
| 90 | Jack Kerouac | 2407 | |
| 91 | Zora Neale Hurston | 2405 | |
| 92 | Aeschylus | 2393 | |
| 93 | Euripides | 2357 | |
| 94 | Primo Levi | 2351 | |
| 95 | Günter Grass | 2336 | |
| 96 | William Makepeace Thackeray | 2324 | |
| 97 | Wilkie Collins | 2305 | |
| 98 | Dante Alighieri | 2287 | |
| 99 | Stephen King | 2261 | |
| 100 | Salman Rushdie | 2256 | |
| 101 | Sinclair Lewis | 2247 | |
| 102 | Bram Stoker | 2226 | |
| 103 | Theodore Dreiser | 2208 | |
| 104 | Cormac McCarthy | 2196 | |
| 105 | Chinua Achebe | 2194 | |
| 106 | Homer | 2142 | |
| 107 | Anthony Trollope | 2121 | |
| 108 | John Milton | 2103 | |
| 109 | Erich Maria Remarque | 2063 | |
| 110 | Knut Hamsun | 2061 | |
| 111 | Nikos Kazantzakis | 2056 | |
| 112 | Thomas Pynchon | 2053 | |
| 113 | Marguerite Duras | 2028 | |
| 114 | Rainer Maria Rilke | 2024 | |
| 115 | Simone de Beauvoir | 2018 | |
| 116 | P. G. Wodehouse | 2012 | |
| 117 | Alexander Pushkin | 1976 | |
| 118 | Henry David Thoreau | 1969 | |
| 119 | H. P. Lovecraft | 1961 | |
| 120 | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1954 | |
| 121 | Astrid Lindgren | 1943 | |
| 122 | Patricia Highsmith | 1917 | |
| 123 | John Dos Passos | 1903 | |
| 124 | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1893 | |
| 125 | Milan Kundera | 1875 | |
| 126 | G. K. Chesterton | 1858 | |
| 127 | Rudyard Kipling | 1851 | |
| 128 | Federico García Lorca | 1837 | |
| 129 | William Butler Yeats | 1812 | |
| 130 | Stefan Zweig | 1811 | |
| 131 | Truman Capote | 1802 | |
| 132 | Guy de Maupassant | 1790 | |
| 133 | Aristotle | 1726 | |
| 134 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1713 | |
| 135 | Gertrude Stein | 1691 | |
| 136 | Karl Marx | 1682 | |
| 137 | Arthur Rimbaud | 1674 | |
| 138 | Molière | 1633 | |
| 139 | Robert Musil | 1632 | |
| 140 | Margaret Atwood | 1632 | |
| 141 | Carson McCullers | 1631 | |
| 142 | Ford Madox Ford | 1624 | |
| 143 | Jean Rhys | 1604 | |
| 144 | Anthony Burgess | 1586 | |
| 145 | Robert Penn Warren | 1581 | |
| 146 | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1579 | |
| 147 | Muriel Spark | 1573 | |
| 148 | Virgil | 1547 | |
| 149 | Fernando Pessoa | 1546 | |
| 150 | Shirley Jackson | 1533 | |
| 151 | Jules Verne | 1518 | |
| 152 | Andre Malraux | 1514 | |
| 153 | Georges Perec | 1506 | |
| 154 | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1505 | |
| 155 | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1493 | |
| 156 | Aristophanes | 1480 | |
| 157 | Roald Dahl | 1477 | |
| 158 | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1476 | |
| 159 | Yasunari Kawabata | 1467 | |
| 160 | J. M. Coetzee | 1461 | |
| 161 | August Strindberg | 1454 | |
| 162 | John le Carré | 1438 | |
| 163 | Iris Murdoch | 1429 | |
| 164 | Hermann Broch | 1373 | |
| 165 | Henrik Ibsen | 1367 | |
| 166 | Colette | 1361 | |
| 167 | Rebecca West | 1355 | |
| 168 | V. S. Naipaul | 1348 | |
| 169 | Emily Brontë | 1338 | |
| 170 | Isaac Asimov | 1337 | |
| 171 | Selma Lagerlöf | 1307 | |
| 172 | Henry Green | 1290 | |
| 173 | Pablo Neruda | 1283 | |
| 174 | Elizabeth Bowen | 1278 | |
| 175 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1263 | |
| 176 | Bertolt Brecht | 1261 | |
| 177 | Umberto Eco | 1255 | |
| 178 | Lawrence Durrell | 1251 | |
| 179 | Tom Wolfe | 1224 | |
| 180 | Denis Diderot | 1221 | |
| 181 | L. M. Montgomery | 1211 | |
| 182 | Robert A. Heinlein | 1203 | |
| 183 | Joan Didion | 1190 | |
| 184 | Henry Miller | 1189 | |
| 185 | Theodor Fontane | 1174 | |
| 186 | Henry Fielding | 1168 | |
| 187 | Anthony Powell | 1162 | |
| 188 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1156 | |
| 189 | Cesare Pavese | 1149 | |
| 190 | William S. Burroughs | 1146 | |
| 191 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1145 | |
| 192 | John Buchan | 1139 | |
| 193 | Richard Wright | 1130 | |
| 194 | Naguib Mahfouz | 1125 | |
| 195 | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1124 | |
| 196 | Yukio Mishima | 1123 | |
| 197 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1107 | |
| 198 | Patrick White | 1103 | |
| 199 | Maxim Gorky | 1100 | |
| 200 | Don DeLillo | 1088 | |
| 201 | Fritz Leiber | 1082 | |
| 202 | Elias Canetti | 1076 | |
| 203 | Witold Gombrowicz | 1073 | |
| 204 | Robert Graves | 1063 | |
| 205 | Halldor Laxness | 1058 | |
| 206 | Ayn Rand | 1056 | |
| 207 | Alice Walker | 1055 | |
| 208 | John Galsworthy | 1051 | |
| 209 | Clarice Lispector | 1046 | |
| 210 | George Bernard Shaw | 1046 | |
| 211 | Charles Darwin | 1043 | |
| 212 | Max Frisch | 1038 | |
| 213 | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1035 | |
| 214 | Norman Mailer | 1026 | |
| 215 | Frank Herbert | 1024 | |
| 216 | Dino Buzzati | 1021 | |
| 217 | Alberto Moravia | 1015 | |
| 218 | Alejo Carpentier | 1006 | |
| 219 | A. A. Milne | 1003 | |
| 220 | Eudora Welty | 1002 | |
| 221 | J. K. Rowling | 1002 | |
| 222 | Walker Percy | 998 | |
| 223 | Winston Churchill | 996 | |
| 224 | Robert Frost | 993 | |
| 225 | Willem Elsschot | 986 | |
| 226 | Thomas Bernhard | 984 | |
| 227 | W. H. Auden | 977 | |
| 228 | Hans Christian Andersen | 976 | |
| 229 | Heinrich Böll | 972 | |
| 230 | Philip K. Dick | 966 | |
| 231 | William James | 964 | |
| 232 | Alice Munro | 949 | |
| 233 | J. G. Ballard | 948 | |
| 234 | André Breton | 943 | |
| 235 | Haruki Murakami | 941 | |
| 236 | Ian McEwan | 939 | |
| 237 | Luigi Pirandello | 939 | |
| 238 | James Fenimore Cooper | 938 | |
| 239 | Christopher Isherwood | 916 | |
| 240 | Harper Lee | 915 | |
| 241 | Charles Baudelaire | 914 | |
| 242 | Louis Couperus | 905 | |
| 243 | Kingsley Amis | 904 | |
| 244 | Bertrand Russell | 904 | |
| 245 | E. T. A. Hoffmann | 903 | |
| 246 | Ian Fleming | 903 | |
| 247 | Anatole France | 902 | |
| 248 | Arthur Machen | 898 | |
| 249 | Algernon Blackwood | 895 | |
| 250 | William Hope Hodgson | 892 | |
| 251 | Pearl S. Buck | 887 | |
| 252 | Samuel Richardson | 885 | |
| 253 | Tobias Smollett | 880 | |
| 254 | Friedrich Schiller | 875 | |
| 255 | Julio Cortazar | 870 | |
| 256 | Thornton Wilder | 868 | |
| 257 | François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand | 844 | |
| 258 | Heinrich von Kleist | 844 | |
| 259 | John Dickson Carr | 842 | |
| 260 | Mary Shelley | 841 | |
| 261 | Louis Aragon | 841 | |
| 262 | Douglas Adams | 840 | |
| 263 | Joseph Roth | 839 | |
| 264 | Ovid | 838 | |
| 265 | Washington Irving | 838 | |
| 266 | Machado de Assis | 834 | |
| 267 | Nathanael West | 828 | |
| 268 | J. M. Barrie | 828 | |
| 269 | Wallace Stevens | 825 | |
| 270 | Raymond Carver | 818 | |
| 271 | Oliver Goldsmith | 817 | |
| 272 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 814 | |
| 273 | Laurence Sterne | 811 | |
| 274 | Joyce Carol Oates | 793 | |
| 275 | E. L. Doctorow | 791 | |
| 276 | Upton Sinclair | 786 | |
| 277 | Natalia Ginzburg | 783 | |
| 278 | Nikolai Leskov | 780 | |
| 279 | Andrey Platonov | 777 | |
| 280 | Francisco de Quevedo | 769 | |
| 281 | Ralph Ellison | 766 | |
| 282 | James Branch Cabell | 753 | |
| 283 | Roberto Bolaño | 753 | |
| 284 | Isak Dinesen | 752 | |
| 285 | Angela Carter | 743 | |
| 286 | Eugene O'Neill | 743 | |
| 287 | Sylvia Plath | 742 | |
| 288 | Hannah Arendt | 739 | |
| 289 | John Cheever | 733 | |
| 290 | François Mauriac | 719 | |
| 291 | Georges Simenon | 712 | |
| 292 | John Stuart Mill | 710 | |
| 293 | Benito Pérez Galdós | 709 | |
| 294 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 708 | |
| 295 | Dr. Seuss | 705 | |
| 296 | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 701 | |
| 297 | Raymond Queneau | 685 | |
| 298 | Lu Xun | 682 | |
| 299 | Joseph Heller | 666 | |
| 300 | Charles Robert Maturin | 665 | |
| 301 | Zadie Smith | 663 | |
| 302 | Jean Racine | 657 | |
| 303 | M. R. James | 656 | |
| 304 | Flann O'Brien | 655 | |
| 305 | James Agee | 655 | |
| 306 | José Saramago | 655 | |
| 307 | Stanislaw Lem | 654 | |
| 308 | John Irving | 648 | |
| 309 | Anna Akhmatova | 643 | |
| 310 | W. G. Sebald | 642 | |
| 311 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 642 | |
| 312 | E. F. Benson | 638 | |
| 313 | Isabel Allende | 637 | |
| 314 | Eric Ambler | 637 | |
| 315 | Robert Walser | 636 | |
| 316 | Heinrich Mann | 630 | |
| 317 | Madeleine L'Engle | 628 | |
| 318 | August Derleth | 626 | |
| 319 | Thomas Wolfe | 624 | |
| 320 | Karel Čapek | 624 | |
| 321 | William Morris | 623 | |
| 322 | Giovanni Verga | 622 | |
| 323 | Christopher Marlowe | 622 | |
| 324 | T. H. White | 620 | |
| 325 | Jean Cocteau | 618 | |
| 326 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 611 | |
| 327 | Gore Vidal | 610 | |
| 328 | Marilynne Robinson | 607 | |
| 329 | Rabindranath Tagore | 606 | |
| 330 | George Seferis | 601 | |
| 331 | Romain Gary | 595 | |
| 332 | Blaise Pascal | 593 | |
| 333 | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 590 | |
| 334 | Stéphane Mallarmé | 589 | |
| 335 | Mervyn Peake | 585 | |
| 336 | Boris Vian | 584 | |
| 337 | Ernst Jünger | 582 | |
| 338 | George Meredith | 581 | |
| 339 | John Barth | 574 | |
| 340 | William Styron | 574 | |
| 341 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 572 | |
| 342 | Arthur Miller | 570 | |
| 343 | Martin Amis | 569 | |
| 344 | James Salter | 568 | |
| 345 | Isaac Babel | 568 | |
| 346 | David Foster Wallace | 568 | |
| 347 | Tennessee Williams | 567 | |
| 348 | Bohumil Hrabal | 565 | |
| 349 | Georges Bataille | 562 | |
| 350 | David Hume | 561 | |
| 351 | Joost van den Vondel | 560 | |
| 352 | Ellery Queen | 548 | |
| 353 | Richard Matheson | 548 | |
| 354 | Walter Pater | 546 | |
| 355 | Gabriele D'Annunzio | 546 | |
| 356 | Mikhail Lermontov | 544 | |
| 357 | Claude Simon | 540 | |
| 358 | Giacomo Leopardi | 539 | |
| 359 | Michel Houellebecq | 533 | |
| 360 | Javier Marias | 533 | |
| 361 | Arno Schmidt | 532 | |
| 362 | Augustine | 530 | |
| 363 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 529 | |
| 364 | Octavia E. Butler | 529 | |
| 365 | Tove Jansson | 529 | |
| 366 | Arthur C. Clarke | 528 | |
| 367 | Christa Wolf | 524 | |
| 368 | C. S. Forester | 524 | |
| 369 | Jean Genet | 523 | |
| 370 | César Vallejo | 522 | |
| 371 | Nadine Gordimer | 520 | |
| 372 | Carl Jung | 518 | |
| 373 | Nathalie Sarraute | 515 | |
| 374 | Albert Cohen | 512 | |
| 375 | James Boswell | 512 | |
| 376 | Ken Follett | 509 | |
| 377 | Louisa May Alcott | 506 | |
| 378 | Ann Radcliffe | 505 | |
| 379 | Jean Giono | 504 | |
| 380 | Ross Macdonald | 502 | |
| 381 | Maurice Sendak | 500 | |
| 382 | John Fowles | 500 | |
| 383 | Gene Wolfe | 499 | |
| 384 | Par Lagerkvist | 499 | |
| 385 | Nescio | 498 | |
| 386 | Camilo José Cela | 495 | |
| 387 | Ismail Kadare | 495 | |
| 388 | James M. Cain | 493 | |
| 389 | Czesław Miłosz | 493 | |
| 390 | Jeanette Winterson | 490 | |
| 391 | Italo Svevo | 489 | |
| 392 | James A. Michener | 484 | |
| 393 | Elena Ferrante | 481 | |
| 394 | Samuel Johnson | 477 | |
| 395 | Anthony Berkeley | 475 | |
| 396 | Arnold Bennett | 474 | |
| 397 | Annie Ernaux | 474 | |
| 398 | Lao She | 474 | |
| 399 | Rene Descartes | 472 | |
| 400 | Roland Barthes | 471 | |
| 401 | Barbara Pym | 470 | |
| 402 | Simon Vestdijk | 468 | |
| 403 | Hunter S. Thompson | 467 | |
| 404 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 466 | |
| 405 | Fanny Burney | 463 | |
| 406 | Boris Pasternak | 462 | |
| 407 | Josephine Tey | 458 | |
| 408 | Mary Stewart | 458 | |
| 409 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 457 | |
| 410 | Emily Dickinson | 456 | |
| 411 | Thomas Harris | 456 | |
| 412 | Brothers Grimm | 456 | |
| 413 | Mihail Sadoveanu | 455 | |
| 414 | Niccolo Machiavelli | 454 | |
| 415 | Elsa Morante | 454 | |
| 416 | Carlos Fuentes | 454 | |
| 417 | Jorge Amado | 453 | |
| 418 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 450 | |
| 419 | Ambrose Bierce | 447 | |
| 420 | Dylan Thomas | 445 | |
| 421 | Walter de la Mare | 442 | |
| 422 | Michael Chabon | 440 | |
| 423 | Benjamin Franklin | 439 | |
| 424 | Claude Lévi-Strauss | 438 | |
| 425 | P. C. Hooft | 437 | |
| 426 | Juan Rulfo | 434 | |
| 427 | G. Oliver Onions | 430 | |
| 428 | Immanuel Kant | 428 | |
| 429 | Xenophon | 427 | |
| 430 | William Godwin | 426 | |
| 431 | Max Weber | 424 | |
| 432 | Heinrich Heine | 423 | |
| 433 | Guillaume Apollinaire | 423 | |
| 434 | R. K. Narayan | 422 | |
| 435 | Anne Frank | 421 | |
| 436 | W.F. Hermans | 420 | |
| 437 | Paul Auster | 419 | |
| 438 | Hergé | 418 | |
| 439 | George MacDonald | 417 | |
| 440 | Robert Aickman | 414 | |
| 441 | Theodor Adorno | 414 | |
| 442 | Neil Gaiman | 407 | |
| 443 | Horace | 405 | |
| 444 | Hilary Mantel | 403 | |
| 445 | Marquis de Sade | 403 | |
| 446 | Denis Johnson | 401 | |
| 447 | Miguel de Unamuno | 401 | |
| 448 | P. D. James | 399 | |
| 449 | Multatuli | 399 | |
| 450 | Francesco Petrarca | 396 | |
| 451 | Matthew Lewis | 395 | |
| 452 | Juan Ramón Jiménez | 394 | |
| 453 | L. P. Hartley | 394 | |
| 454 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 392 | |
| 455 | Barbara Kingsolver | 391 | |
| 456 | Lord Dunsany | 391 | |
| 457 | Cornelius Tacitus | 391 | |
| 458 | Bret Easton Ellis | 391 | |
| 459 | James Thurber | 389 | |
| 460 | Clark Ashton Smith | 386 | |
| 461 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | 384 | |
| 462 | Terry Pratchett | 383 | |
| 463 | George Sand | 383 | |
| 464 | Eça de Queirós | 383 | |
| 465 | Ezra Pound | 383 | |
| 466 | Svetlana Alexievich | 381 | |
| 467 | Nevil Shute | 380 | |
| 468 | Robert W. Chambers | 380 | |
| 469 | George Gissing | 376 | |
| 470 | Bernard Malamud | 374 | |
| 471 | Ingeborg Bachmann | 371 | |
| 472 | Anne Tyler | 369 | |
| 473 | John Wyndham | 367 | |
| 474 | Antonio Machado | 367 | |
| 475 | Georgette Heyer | 364 | |
| 476 | Julian Barnes | 363 | |
| 477 | Susan Cooper | 359 | |
| 478 | Philip Pullman | 358 | |
| 479 | Charles Brockden Brown | 358 | |
| 480 | Edmund Wilson | 357 | |
| 481 | Langston Hughes | 357 | |
| 482 | Junichiro Tanizaki | 356 | |
| 483 | Gottfried Keller | 355 | |
| 484 | Edna O'Brien | 354 | |
| 485 | Barbara Wertheim Tuchman | 353 | |
| 486 | John Williams | 352 | |
| 487 | Orhan Pamuk | 352 | |
| 488 | Thomas Love Peacock | 351 | |
| 489 | Pierre Corneille | 349 | |
| 490 | Giorgio Bassani | 347 | |
| 491 | Paul Celan | 346 | |
| 492 | Ken Kesey | 345 | |
| 493 | Kobo Abé | 341 | |
| 494 | Alan Hollinghurst | 338 | |
| 495 | Anne Rice | 337 | |
| 496 | Katherine Anne Porter | 336 | |
| 497 | Amos Oz | 336 | |
| 498 | Peter Handke | 335 | |
| 499 | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 334 | |
| 500 | Bruno Schulz | 333 | |
| 501 | Lord Byron | 332 | |
| 502 | Iain Banks | 329 | |
| 503 | William Carlos Williams | 329 | |
| 504 | John Bunyan | 329 | |
| 505 | Tove Ditlevsen | 329 | |
| 506 | Arthur Schnitzler | 328 | |
| 507 | Wallace Stegner | 327 | |
| 508 | Erich Kästner | 326 | |
| 509 | Angus Wilson | 324 | |
| 510 | Blaise Cendrars | 324 | |
| 511 | Peter Carey | 323 | |
| 512 | Ramsey Campbell | 323 | |
| 513 | Seneca | 323 | |
| 514 | Carl Sagan | 318 | |
| 515 | Samuel Butler | 318 | |
| 516 | Chester Himes | 316 | |
| 517 | Rachel Carson | 315 | |
| 518 | Novalis | 314 | |
| 519 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 313 | |
| 520 | Vilhelm Moberg | 313 | |
| 521 | Arthur Koestler | 313 | |
| 522 | Ivan Goncharov | 312 | |
| 523 | David Lindsay | 310 | |
| 524 | Kenzaburō Ōe | 310 | |
| 525 | Georg Buchner | 307 | |
| 526 | Eugène Ionesco | 306 | |
| 527 | Annie Proulx | 305 | |
| 528 | Katherine Mansfield | 305 | |
| 529 | Ivan Bunin | 305 | |
| 530 | Robertson Davies | 303 | |
| 531 | Marcus Tullius Cicero | 303 | |
| 532 | William Saroyan | 302 | |
| 533 | Francis Bacon | 301 | |
| 534 | Luis de Góngora | 300 | |
| 535 | Michael Moorcock | 300 | |
| 536 | Stephen Crane | 298 | |
| 537 | John Henry Newman | 297 | |
| 538 | Michael Ondaatje | 295 | |
| 539 | Maya Angelou | 295 | |
| 540 | Richard Brautigan | 295 | |
| 541 | Mircea Eliade | 294 | |
| 542 | James Ellroy | 291 | |
| 543 | Elmore Leonard | 290 | |
| 544 | Elfriede Jelinek | 289 | |
| 545 | Edmund Burke | 288 | |
| 546 | Lion Feuchtwanger | 288 | |
| 547 | Martin Heidegger | 288 | |
| 548 | Alan Garner | 286 | |
| 549 | Henry Adams | 286 | |
| 550 | David Mitchell | 286 | |
| 551 | Lorrie Moore | 283 | |
| 552 | Eyvind Johnson | 282 | |
| 553 | Ira Levin | 280 | |
| 554 | A. S. Byatt | 280 | |
| 555 | Donna Tartt | 279 | |
| 556 | George Saunders | 279 | |
| 557 | Harry Martinson | 279 | |
| 558 | Francoise Sagan | 279 | |
| 559 | Allen Ginsberg | 277 | |
| 560 | Len Deighton | 276 | |
| 561 | Nick Hornby | 276 | |
| 562 | William Wordsworth | 275 | |
| 563 | Gaston Leroux | 273 | |
| 564 | Robert Bloch | 272 | |
| 565 | China | 272 | |
| 566 | Maria Edgeworth | 269 | |
| 567 | William Gibson | 268 | |
| 568 | Martinus Nijhoff | 268 | |
| 569 | Christina Stead | 267 | |
| 570 | Olga Tokarczuk | 265 | |
| 571 | Thorne Smith | 265 | |
| 572 | Max Beerbohm | 265 | |
| 573 | F. Anstey | 264 | |
| 574 | Robert Caro | 262 | |
| 575 | Ruth Rendell | 261 | |
| 576 | Sherwood Anderson | 261 | |
| 577 | Pat Barker | 261 | |
| 578 | Patrick Modiano | 260 | |
| 579 | Janet Frame | 259 | |
| 580 | Henry Handel Richardson | 258 | |
| 581 | Edward St Aubyn | 257 | |
| 582 | Shelby Foote | 257 | |
| 583 | John Maynard Keynes | 257 | |
| 584 | William Gaddis | 256 | |
| 585 | Jonathan Franzen | 256 | |
| 586 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 254 | |
| 587 | Paul Bowles | 254 | |
| 588 | Louise Erdrich | 253 | |
| 589 | Judy Blume | 253 | |
| 590 | Brian Moore | 253 | |
| 591 | L. Sprague de Camp | 251 | |
| 592 | Colson Whitehead | 251 | |
| 593 | Margaret Wise Brown | 251 | |
| 594 | Soren Kierkegaard | 250 | |
| 595 | E. R. Eddison | 248 | |
| 596 | James Jones | 248 | |
| 597 | Michael Crichton | 248 | |
| 598 | Baruch de Spinoza | 247 | |
| 599 | Alex Haley | 247 | |
| 600 | Arundhati Roy | 243 | |
| 601 | Joao Guimaraes Rosa | 243 | |
| 602 | Adalbert Stifter | 243 | |
| 603 | H. Rider Haggard | 242 | |
| 604 | Peter Matthiessen | 241 | |
| 605 | Manuel Puig | 241 | |
| 606 | Arthur Schopenhauer | 240 | |
| 607 | Alessandro Manzoni | 239 | |
| 608 | Richard Ford | 238 | |
| 609 | António Lobo Antunes | 237 | |
| 610 | Jean Anouilh | 237 | |
| 611 | Friedrich Engels | 237 | |
| 612 | Norman Douglas | 236 | |
| 613 | Odysseas Elytis | 236 | |
| 614 | Horace Walpole | 236 | |
| 615 | Thomas Carlyle | 236 | |
| 616 | Russell Kirk | 235 | |
| 617 | Leonardo Sciascia | 234 | |
| 618 | Beatrix Potter | 234 | |
| 619 | Herman Wouk | 233 | |
| 620 | John Keats | 233 | |
| 621 | Margaret Mead | 233 | |
| 622 | Hubert Selby | 232 | |
| 623 | Richard P. Feynman | 232 | |
| 624 | William Maxwell | 231 | |
| 625 | Elizabeth Taylor | 230 | |
| 626 | Sarah Waters | 229 | |
| 627 | Giacomo Casanova | 229 | |
| 628 | Thomas Paine | 229 | |
| 629 | Edmund White | 228 | |
| 630 | Colm Toibin | 228 | |
| 631 | Jeffrey Eugenides | 226 | |
| 632 | Paulo Coelho | 226 | |
| 633 | Albert Einstein | 225 | |
| 634 | Elie Wiesel | 225 | |
| 635 | Henning Mankell | 225 | |
| 636 | Frederik van Eeden | 224 | |
| 637 | James Hilton | 224 | |
| 638 | Thomas Keneally | 220 | |
| 639 | Plutarch | 220 | |
| 640 | John Berger | 220 | |
| 641 | Yevgeny Zamyatin | 219 | |
| 642 | Octavio Paz | 219 | |
| 643 | James Madison | 218 | |
| 644 | Gerard Reve | 218 | |
| 645 | Juan José Saer | 217 | |
| 646 | László Krasznahorkai | 216 | |
| 647 | Larry McMurtry | 216 | |
| 648 | Patrick Hamilton | 215 | |
| 649 | Hugo Claus | 215 | |
| 650 | William Trevor | 214 | |
| 651 | Marjorie Bowen | 213 | |
| 652 | Booth Tarkington | 213 | |
| 653 | Poul Anderson | 211 | |
| 654 | Wyndham Lewis | 211 | |
| 655 | Vasily Grossman | 210 | |
| 656 | J. K. Huysmans | 209 | |
| 657 | Liviu Rebreanu | 209 | |
| 658 | Wolfgang Koeppen | 208 | |
| 659 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 207 | |
| 660 | L. Frank Baum | 206 | |
| 661 | Michel Foucault | 206 | |
| 662 | John Ruskin | 206 | |
| 663 | Jhumpa Lahiri | 205 | |
| 664 | Elizabeth Bishop | 204 | |
| 665 | Michael Frayn | 202 | |
| 666 | Mario de Andrade | 202 | |
| 667 | Guillermo Cabrera Infante | 202 | |
| 668 | Curzio Malaparte | 201 | |
| 669 | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 200 | |
| 670 | Dorothy Dunnett | 200 | |
| 671 | Robert Merle | 199 | |
| 672 | Samuel R. Delany | 198 | |
| 673 | Henri Michaux | 197 | |
| 674 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 196 | |
| 675 | Diana Gabaldon | 196 | |
| 676 | Neal Stephenson | 195 | |
| 677 | Tom Stoppard | 195 | |
| 678 | Robert E. Howard | 194 | |
| 679 | Ivo Andrić | 194 | |
| 680 | Dale Carnegie | 192 | |
| 681 | Rex Stout | 192 | |
| 682 | Harold Pinter | 192 | |
| 683 | Rohinton Mistry | 191 | |
| 684 | Mircea Cărtărescu | 190 | |
| 685 | Hugh Walpole | 189 | |
| 686 | Joyce Cary | 188 | |
| 687 | Danilo Kiš | 188 | |
| 688 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 188 | |
| 689 | Tom Clancy | 187 | |
| 690 | Harry Mulisch | 186 | |
| 691 | Amy Tan | 186 | |
| 692 | Alfred North Whitehead | 186 | |
| 693 | John Donne | 185 | |
| 694 | Nella Larsen | 185 | |
| 695 | Sandor Marai | 184 | |
| 696 | Adolfo Bioy Casares | 180 | |
| 697 | Richard Adams | 180 | |
| 698 | James Clavell | 180 | |
| 699 | Ann Patchett | 180 | |
| 700 | Johan Huizinga | 179 | |
| 701 | Géza Gárdonyi | 179 | |
| 702 | Karl Barth | 178 | |
| 703 | Siegfried Lenz | 177 | |
| 704 | Henry Roth | 177 | |
| 705 | Adam Smith | 176 | |
| 706 | William Blake | 176 | |
| 707 | Kahlil Gibran | 176 | |
| 708 | Marin Preda | 176 | |
| 709 | Dan Simmons | 175 | |
| 710 | Carol Shields | 175 | |
| 711 | Eden Phillpotts | 174 | |
| 712 | John Grisham | 174 | |
| 713 | Georges Bernanos | 173 | |
| 714 | May Sinclair | 173 | |
| 715 | W. E. B. Du Bois | 172 | |
| 716 | John O'Hara | 172 | |
| 717 | Cora Sandel | 172 | |
| 718 | Michael Innes | 171 | |
| 719 | J. G. Farrell | 170 | |
| 720 | Junot Diaz | 170 | |
| 721 | A. E. Housman | 169 | |
| 722 | William F. Buckley, Jr | 169 | |
| 723 | Irving Stone | 168 | |
| 724 | Margaret Laurence | 167 | |
| 725 | Juan Goytisolo | 167 | |
| 726 | Herta Müller | 167 | |
| 727 | Penelope Fitzgerald | 166 | |
| 728 | Edmund Crispin | 164 | |
| 729 | Marjane Satrapi | 163 | |
| 730 | Emmanuel Carrère | 163 | |
| 731 | Rachel Cusk | 163 | |
| 732 | Robert R. McCammon | 162 | |
| 733 | Saki | 162 | |
| 734 | Giorgio Vasari | 161 | |
| 735 | Marianne Fredriksson | 160 | |
| 736 | Tim O'Brien | 160 | |
| 737 | Grace Paley | 160 | |
| 738 | Jane Smiley | 159 | |
| 739 | John Crowley | 159 | |
| 740 | Brian Aldiss | 159 | |
| 741 | Stephen R. Donaldson | 158 | |
| 742 | Anne Carson | 157 | |
| 743 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 156 | |
| 744 | Thomas M. Disch | 156 | |
| 745 | L. Ron Hubbard | 156 | |
| 746 | Mulk Raj Anand | 156 | |
| 747 | Thucydides | 155 | |
| 748 | Alfred de Musset | 155 | |
| 749 | Dawn Powell | 155 | |
| 750 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 154 | |
| 751 | Wislawa Szymborska | 153 | |
| 752 | Milton Friedman | 152 | |
| 753 | Nawal El Saadawi | 152 | |
| 754 | Sir Thomas Browne | 151 | |
| 755 | Han Kang | 151 | |
| 756 | George R. R. Martin | 151 | |
| 757 | Peter S. Beagle | 150 | |
| 758 | A. Merritt | 150 | |
| 759 | Gwendolyn Brooks | 150 | |
| 760 | Richard Hofstadter | 150 | |
| 761 | Evgeniy Petrov | 149 | |
| 762 | Ilya Ilf | 149 | |
| 763 | C. L. Moore | 148 | |
| 764 | Sean O'Casey | 148 | |
| 765 | Clive Barker | 148 | |
| 766 | René Barjavel | 147 | |
| 767 | Dimitar Talev | 147 | |
| 768 | Susan Sontag | 147 | |
| 769 | Friedrich von Hayek | 147 | |
| 770 | Edmund Husserl | 146 | |
| 771 | David Lodge | 146 | |
| 772 | Theodor Storm | 146 | |
| 773 | Donald E. Westlake | 146 | |
| 774 | Lope de Vega | 145 | |
| 775 | Enid Blyton | 145 | |
| 776 | Margaret Drabble | 145 | |
| 777 | Bruce Chatwin | 144 | |
| 778 | Anna Seghers | 144 | |
| 779 | Edgar Wallace | 144 | |
| 780 | Philip José Farmer | 143 | |
| 781 | Anaïs Nin | 143 | |
| 782 | Natsume Sōseki | 143 | |
| 783 | Orson Scott Card | 143 | |
| 784 | Alfred Jarry | 142 | |
| 785 | Irmgard Keun | 141 | |
| 786 | Anna Maria Ortese | 141 | |
| 787 | Jesmyn Ward | 141 | |
| 788 | James McBride | 141 | |
| 789 | Vaclav Havel | 140 | |
| 790 | Tim Powers | 140 | |
| 791 | Mór Jókai | 139 | |
| 792 | Gerard de Nerval | 138 | |
| 793 | James Dickey | 138 | |
| 794 | Ellen Glasgow | 138 | |
| 795 | Randall Jarrell | 138 | |
| 796 | John Hersey | 137 | |
| 797 | Hella S. Haasse | 137 | |
| 798 | Kate Atkinson | 137 | |
| 799 | Peter Straub | 137 | |
| 800 | Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux | 137 | |
| 801 | N. K. Jemisin | 136 | |
| 802 | Audre Lorde | 136 | |
| 803 | Konrad Lorenz | 136 | |
| 804 | Seamus Heaney | 136 | |
| 805 | Harlan Ellison | 135 | |
| 806 | Percival Everett | 134 | |
| 807 | John Locke | 134 | |
| 808 | Jeremias Gotthelf | 134 | |
| 809 | Jim Thompson | 134 | |
| 810 | Hilda Doolittle | 133 | |
| 811 | Joseph Addison | 133 | |
| 812 | John D. MacDonald | 132 | |
| 813 | Thomas Aquinas | 132 | |
| 814 | Carlo Levi | 130 | |
| 815 | Richard Powers | 130 | |
| 816 | Plautus | 130 | |
| 817 | Aphra Behn | 130 | |
| 818 | Hugh MacLennan | 129 | |
| 819 | Maj Sjöwall | 129 | |
| 820 | Chaim Potok | 129 | |
| 821 | Robert Coover | 129 | |
| 822 | Roberto Arlt | 129 | |
| 823 | Thanassis Valtinos | 128 | |
| 824 | Montague Summers | 128 | |
| 825 | Friedrich Holderlin | 128 | |
| 826 | John Cowper Powys | 127 | |
| 827 | Arnold J. Toynbee | 127 | |
| 828 | Christine De Pizan | 127 | |
| 829 | Julien Gracq | 126 | |
| 830 | M. F. K. Fisher | 126 | |
| 831 | John Kenneth Galbraith | 126 | |
| 832 | Karl Popper | 126 | |
| 833 | Michael Dibdin | 126 | |
| 834 | Wole Soyinka | 125 | |
| 835 | Alfred de Vigny | 125 | |
| 836 | Paul Theroux | 125 | |
| 837 | Dan Brown | 125 | |
| 838 | Paul Valéry | 125 | |
| 839 | Charles Kingsley | 125 | |
| 840 | Thomas More | 125 | |
| 841 | Jared Diamond | 125 | |
| 842 | Uwe Johnson | 124 | |
| 843 | O. Henry | 124 | |
| 844 | Joseph A. Schumpeter | 124 | |
| 845 | Margaret Sanger | 124 | |
| 846 | Alfred Tennyson | 124 | |
| 847 | Martin Walser | 124 | |
| 848 | J. B. Priestley | 124 | |
| 849 | Robert Browning | 123 | |
| 850 | Martin Buber | 123 | |
| 851 | Russell Hoban | 123 | |
| 852 | Charles Williams | 123 | |
| 853 | David McCullough | 123 | |
| 854 | Cynthia Asquith | 122 | |
| 855 | Rosamond Lehmann | 122 | |
| 856 | Dave Eggers | 121 | |
| 857 | Hesiod | 120 | |
| 858 | Guy Gavriel Kay | 120 | |
| 859 | John McGahern | 120 | |
| 860 | Frank Norris | 120 | |
| 861 | James Stephens | 120 | |
| 862 | Dionysios Solomos | 119 | |
| 863 | Georgios Vizyinos | 119 | |
| 864 | Gustav Meyrink | 119 | |
| 865 | Beryl Bainbridge | 119 | |
| 866 | Erskine Caldwell | 119 | |
| 867 | Radclyffe Hall | 119 | |
| 868 | Larry Niven | 119 | |
| 869 | Dodie Smith | 119 | |
| 870 | Diana Wynne Jones | 117 | |
| 871 | Annie Dillard | 117 | |
| 872 | Theodor Herzl | 116 | |
| 873 | Dennis Cooper | 116 | |
| 874 | Hanns Heinz Ewers | 116 | |
| 875 | St. John of the Cross | 116 | |
| 876 | Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu | 116 | |
| 877 | Jonathan Spence | 115 | |
| 878 | Colin Wilson | 115 | |
| 879 | E. O. Wilson | 115 | |
| 880 | Kosmas Politis | 114 | |
| 881 | Gerald Manley Hopkins | 114 | |
| 882 | Alistair MacLean | 114 | |
| 883 | Roger Zelazny | 114 | |
| 884 | Marshall McLuhan | 114 | |
| 885 | Imre Kertész | 114 | |
| 886 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 114 | |
| 887 | Hjalmar Soderberg | 113 | |
| 888 | Mao | 113 | |
| 889 | Emil Cioran | 113 | |
| 890 | Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi | 113 | |
| 891 | René Char | 112 | |
| 892 | Edward Gibbon | 112 | |
| 893 | Roddy Doyle | 111 | |
| 894 | Maxine Hong Kingston | 111 | |
| 895 | Barbara Vine | 111 | |
| 896 | Heimito von Doderer | 111 | |
| 897 | M. Karagatsis | 111 | |
| 898 | Antonio Muñoz Molina | 110 | |
| 899 | Jack Vance | 109 | |
| 900 | Douglas Southall Freeman | 109 | |
| 901 | Charlotte Dacre | 109 | |
| 902 | Juan Marsé | 109 | |
| 903 | Frederick Marryat | 108 | |
| 904 | James Blish | 108 | |
| 905 | Chinghiz Aitmatov | 107 | |
| 906 | W. H. Hudson | 107 | |
| 907 | Isaiah Berlin | 107 | |
| 908 | Nancy Mitford | 106 | |
| 909 | Mary Wollstonecraft | 105 | |
| 910 | Grazia Deledda | 105 | |
| 911 | Elizabeth Strout | 105 | |
| 912 | Elio Vittorini | 105 | |
| 913 | Olaf Stapledon | 105 | |
| 914 | Victor Pelevin | 104 | |
| 915 | Victor Serge | 104 | |
| 916 | Jerome K. Jerome | 104 | |
| 917 | Eugène Sue | 103 | |
| 918 | Karl Ove Knausgård | 103 | |
| 919 | Jennifer Egan | 103 | |
| 920 | Andreas Embiricos | 102 | |
| 921 | Edith Nesbit | 101 | |
| 922 | Aimé Césaire | 101 | |
| 923 | Christine Campbell Thomson | 100 | |
| 924 | Alan Sillitoe | 100 | |
| 925 | Thorstein Veblen | 100 | |
| 926 | Julien Green | 100 | |
| 927 | T. C. Boyle | 100 | |
| 928 | Martin Luther King | 100 | |
| 929 | Anne McCaffrey | 100 | |
| 930 | Teresa of Avila | 99 | |
| 931 | John Webster | 99 | |
| 932 | Chrétien de Troyes | 99 | |
| 933 | Peter Ackroyd | 99 | |
| 934 | J. L. Carr | 98 | |
| 935 | Raymond Radiguet | 98 | |
| 936 | Sholem Aleichem | 98 | |
| 937 | Leo Perutz | 98 | |
| 938 | Marcel Pagnol | 98 | |
| 939 | Saint-John Perse | 97 | |
| 940 | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | 97 | |
| 941 | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 97 | |
| 942 | Geoffrey Household | 96 | |
| 943 | Francis Iles | 96 | |
| 944 | Patrick Suskind | 96 | |
| 945 | Jamaica Kincaid | 95 | |
| 946 | Arthur William Upfield | 95 | |
| 947 | Ted Hughes | 95 | |
| 948 | M. John Harrison | 95 | |
| 949 | John Brunner | 94 | |
| 950 | William Dean Howells | 94 | |
| 951 | Shūsaku Endō | 94 | |
| 952 | Charles L. Grant | 93 | |
| 953 | Khaled Hosseini | 93 | |
| 954 | Norman Rush | 93 | |
| 955 | Donald Barthelme | 93 | |
| 956 | Hans Fallada | 93 | |
| 957 | Philip Larkin | 93 | |
| 958 | Wayne Johnston | 93 | |
| 959 | Raymond Roussel | 93 | |
| 960 | Paul van Ostaijen | 92 | |
| 961 | Charles Reade | 91 | |
| 962 | Fritiof Nilsson Piraten | 91 | |
| 963 | Benjamin Constant | 91 | |
| 964 | Lloyd Alexander | 91 | |
| 965 | André Schwarz-Bart | 91 | |
| 966 | Simone Weil | 91 | |
| 967 | Arkady Strugatsky | 90 | |
| 968 | Merce Rodoreda | 90 | |
| 969 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | 90 | |
| 970 | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | 90 | |
| 971 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 90 | |
| 972 | Antal Szerb | 89 | |
| 973 | Maurice Maeterlinck | 89 | |
| 974 | Jonathan Carroll | 89 | |
| 975 | Helen Garner | 89 | |
| 976 | T. F. Powys | 88 | |
| 977 | Szabó, Magda | 88 | |
| 978 | Prosper Mérimée | 88 | |
| 979 | Oliver Sacks | 88 | |
| 980 | Ernest H. Gombrich | 88 | |
| 981 | Gerhart Hauptmann | 87 | |
| 982 | William Goldman | 87 | |
| 983 | François Villon | 87 | |
| 984 | Vladimir Mayakovsky | 87 | |
| 985 | Julia Alvarez | 87 | |
| 986 | Anthony Doerr | 87 | |
| 987 | John Hawkes | 87 | |
| 988 | Steven Pinker | 86 | |
| 989 | Osip Mandelstam | 85 | |
| 990 | Chuck Palahniuk | 85 | |
| 991 | James Kelman | 85 | |
| 992 | Ed McBain | 85 | |
| 993 | Derek Walcott | 85 | |
| 994 | Ali Smith | 85 | |
| 995 | Benjamin Disraeli | 84 | |
| 996 | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | 84 | |
| 997 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 84 | |
| 998 | Peter De Vries | 84 | |
| 999 | Jane Gaskell | 84 | |
| 1000 | Michael Ende | 84 |