Top 1000 authors by rank, according to http://www.librarything.com/z_books.php ( LibraryThing) as of August 6, 2007. Fields are rank, author name linked to Wikipedia article, and in parenthesis the number of books held by LibraryThing members. For comments, see the talk/discussion page.

1. 

J. K. Rowling (93,713) (was: J.K. Rowling)
2. 

Stephen King (73,665)
3. 

Terry Pratchett (72,733)
4. 

Neil Gaiman (58,978)
5. 

J. R. R. Tolkien (56,339) (was: J.R.R. Tolkien)
6. 

C. S. Lewis (52,487)
7. 

William Shakespeare (39,126)
8. 

Isaac Asimov (32,368)
9. 

Jane Austen (31,057)
10. 

Anne McCaffrey (30,106)
11. 

Douglas Adams (29,811)
12. 

Orson Scott Card (29,040)
13. 

Nora Roberts (28,822)
14. 

Anne Rice (27,827)
15. 

Agatha Christie (27,071)
16. 

Kurt Vonnegut (26,990)
17. 

Robert A. Heinlein (26,540)
18. 

Charles Dickens (26,373)
19. 

Dan Brown (25,016)
20. 

Mercedes Lackey (24,065)
21. 

George Orwell (23,500)
22. 

John Grisham (22,235)
23. 

Margaret Atwood (22,070)
24. 

Piers Anthony (21,657)
25. 

Robert Jordan (19,901)
26. 

John Steinbeck (19,807)
27. 

Laurell K. Hamilton (19,163)
28. 

Neal Stephenson (18,892)
29. 

Lemony Snicket (18,736)
30. 

Dean Koontz (18,578)
31. 

Michael Crichton (18,439)
32. 

Fyodor Dostoevsky (18,175)
33. 

Ernest Hemingway (18,175)
34. 

David Eddings (18,148)
35. 

Ray Bradbury (17,387)
36. 

Gabriel García Márquez (17,094) (was: Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
37. 

Philip K. Dick (16,940)
38. 

Roald Dahl (16,908)
39. 

Ursula K. Le Guin (16,845)
40. 

Frank Herbert (16,836)
41. 

Philip Pullman (16,723)
42. 

Mark Twain (16,596)
43. 

Janet Evanovich (16,552)
44. 

J. D. Salinger (16,491) (was: J.D. Salinger)
45. 

Lucy Maud Montgomery (16,329) (was: L.M. Montgomery)
46. 

James Patterson (15,903)
47. 

Bill Bryson (15,627)
48. 

William Gibson (15,363) (was: William Gibson)
49. 

Madeleine L'Engle (15,324)
50. 

John Irving (15,063)
51. 

Tom Clancy (14,893)
52. 

Haruki Murakami (14,837)
53. 

Marion Zimmer Bradley (14,833)
54. 

Umberto Eco (14,584)
55. 

Arthur C. Clarke (14,443)
56. 

Virginia Woolf (14,134)
57. 

Chuck Palahniuk (14,131)
58. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (14,058)
59. 

Vladimir Nabokov (14,024)
60. 

Tamora Pierce (13,535)
61. 

David Sedaris (13,421)
62. 

James Joyce (13,168)
63. Various (12,867)
64. 

Patricia Cornwell (12,636)
65. 

Albert Camus (12,569)
66. 

Larry Niven (12,440)
67. 

William Faulkner (12,216)
68. 

Iain Banks (12,157)
69. 

Nick Hornby (12,035)
70. 

George R. R. Martin (11,940) (was: George R.R. Martin)
71. 

Aldous Huxley (11,583)
72. 

Bill Watterson (11,515)
73. 

Homer (11,378)
74. 

Leo Tolstoy (11,178)
75. 

Alan Moore (11,056)
76. 

Ayn Rand (10,803)
77. 

Dr. Seuss (10,777)
78. 

Franz Kafka (10,462)
79. 

Patrick O'Brian (10,449)
80. 

Hermann Hesse (10,393)
81. 

Diana Wynne Jones (10,368)
82. 

P. G. Wodehouse (10,368) (was: P.G. Wodehouse)
83. 

C. J. Cherryh (10,357)
84. 

Lois McMaster Bujold (10,315)
85. 

Margaret Weis (10,314)
86. 

Arthur Conan Doyle (10,247)
87. 

Jack Kerouac (10,246)
88. 

Jasper Fforde (10,090)
89. 

Terry Brooks (10,079)
90. 

Barbara Kingsolver (10,054)
91. 

Oscar Wilde (10,032)
92. 

Thomas Hardy (10,007)
93. 

Toni Morrison (9,994)
94. 

Raymond E. Feist (9,985)
95. 

Laura Ingalls Wilder (9,975)
96. 

Charlotte Brontë (9,944) (was: Charlotte Bronte)
97. 

Sue Grafton (9,819)
98. 

Henry James (9,761)
99. 

Graham Greene (9,759)

100. 

Joseph Conrad (9,711)
101. 

Gregory Maguire (9,670)
102. 

Roger Zelazny (9,574)
103. 

Robin Hobb (9,359)
104. 

Ian McEwan (9,284)
105. 

Douglas Coupland (9,277)
106. 

Philip Roth (9,176)
107. 

Lewis Carroll (9,167)
108. 

Louisa May Alcott (9,154)
109. 

Harper Lee (9,120)
110. Anonymous (9,108)
111. 

Milan Kundera (9,089)
112. 

Dorothy L. Sayers (9,078)
113. 

Carolyn Keene (9,011)
114. 

Alexander McCall Smith (8,967)
115. 

Plato (8,904)
116. 

Charles de Lint (8,611)
117. 

Salman Rushdie (8,515)
118. 

Michael Moorcock (8,494)
119. 

Clamp (manga artists) (8,485) (was: Clamp)
120. 

Diana Gabaldon (8,481)
121. 

Meg Cabot (8,355)
122. 

Elizabeth Peters (8,312)
123. 

Robert Louis Stevenson (8,071)
124. 

Georgette Heyer (8,040)
125. 

Joseph Heller (8,005)
126. 

Sylvia Plath (7,974)
127. 

Stephen R. Donaldson (7,954)
128. 

Italo Calvino (7,952)
129. 

Friedrich Nietzsche (7,928)
130. 

Thomas Pynchon (7,919)
131. 

Dave Eggers (7,917)
132. 

Andre Norton (7,817)
133. 

Brian Jacques (7,772)
134. 

Mark Haddon (7,770)
135. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne (7,692)
136. 

Jodi Picoult (7,673)
137. 

John Piper (theologian) (7,646) (was: John Piper)
138. 

Jared Diamond (7,610)
139. 

Alan Dean Foster (7,590)
140. 

H. G. Wells (7,572)
141. 

Tom Robbins (7,561)
142. 

Tad Williams (7,554)
143. 

Terry Goodkind (7,527)
144. 

Dante Alighieri (7,455)
145. 

David Weber (7,445)
146. 

Dan Simmons (7,400)
147. 

Michael Connelly (7,333)
148. 

Clive Cussler (7,329)
149. 

Christopher Moore (author) (7,318) (was: Christopher Moore)
150. 

D. H. Lawrence (7,309) (was: D.H. Lawrence)
151. 

Amy Tan (7,301)
152. 

Michael Chabon (7,292)
153. 

Clive Barker (7,277)
154. 

Edgar Allan Poe (7,268) (was: Edgar Allan POE)
155. 

Herman Melville (7,255)
156. 

John F. MacArthur (7,220) (was: John MacArthur)
157. 

Isabel Allende (7,181)
158. 

Robert Asprin (7,148)
159. 

Hunter S. Thompson (7,095)
160. 

Robin McKinley (7,045)
161. 

Robert B. Parker (7,034)
162. 

Paulo Coelho (7,005)
163. 

R. A. Salvatore (6,997)
164. 

Yann Martel (6,994)
165. 

Paul Auster (6,976)
166. 

Emily Brontë (6,973) (was: Emily Bronte)
167. 

Don DeLillo (6,962)
168. 

Robert Ludlum (6,912)
169. 

Dick Francis (6,892)
170. 

John le Carré (6,877) (was: John Le Carre)
171. 

David Brin (6,841)
172. 

Louis L'Amour (6,828)
173. 

Jean-Paul Sartre (6,814)
174. 

E. M. Forster (6,753) (was: E.M. Forster)
175. 

George Eliot (6,736)
176. 

Madeleine Wickham (6,706) (was: Sophie Kinsella)
177. 

Eoin Colfer (6,650)
178. 

Kazuo Ishiguro (6,636)
179. 

William Golding (6,628)
180. 

Malcolm Gladwell (6,605)
181. 

Richard Dawkins (6,602)
182. 

Steven Brust (6,589)
183. 

Edith Wharton (6,549)
184. 

Arthur Golden (6,543)
185. 

John Updike (6,538)
186. 

Audrey Niffenegger (6,527)
187. 

H. P. Lovecraft (6,493)
188. 

Jeffrey Eugenides (6,442)
189. 

Helen Fielding (6,430)
190. 

Jorge Luis Borges (6,428)
191. 

Lloyd Alexander (6,423)
192. 

Anthony Burgess (6,416)
193. 

Rudyard Kipling (6,380)
194. 

Anne Tyler (6,364)
195. 

Edgar Rice Burroughs (6,332)
196. 

Scott Adams (6,327)
197. 

Mary Higgins Clark (6,302)
198. 

Bernard Cornwell (6,300)
199. 

Greg Bear (6,290)

200. 

Alice Sebold (6,277)
201. 

Truman Capote (6,250)
202. 

Garth Nix (6,248)
203. 

Michel Foucault (6,244)
204. 

T. S. Eliot (6,217)
205. 

Charles Bukowski (6,210)
206. 

Time – Life (6,202) (was: Time-Life Books)
207. 

A. S. Byatt (6,150) (was: A.S. Byatt)
208. 

Nicholas Sparks (author) (6,101) (was: Nicholas Sparks)
209. 

P. D. James (6,078) (was: P.D. James)
210. 

Joyce Carol Oates (6,072)
211. 

Poul Anderson (6,032)
212. 

Tom Wolfe (6,024)
213. 

William S. Burroughs (6,021)
214. 

Susanna Clarke (6,017)
215. 

Rex Stout (5,992)
216. 

Carl Hiaasen (5,939)
217. 

Evelyn Waugh (5,933)
218. 

A. A. Milne (5,856)
219. 

Augusten Burroughs (5,838)
220. 

Jonathan Kellerman (5,831)
221. 

Edith Pargeter (5,812) (was: Ellis Peters)
222. 

Alexandre Dumas, père (5,798) (was: Alexandre Dumas)
223. 

Lilian Jackson Braun (5,728)
224. 

Dorling Kindersley (5,726) (was: DK Publishing)
225. 

Tim LaHaye (5,715) (was: Tim F. LaHaye)
226. 

L. Frank Baum (5,708)
227. 

Gene Wolfe (5,707)
228. 

Susan Cooper (5,702)
229. 

Ann M. Martin (5,639)
230. 

Jayne Ann Krentz (5,619)
231. 

Jeanette Winterson (5,599)
232. 

Cormac McCarthy (5,575)
233. 

Anthony Trollope (5,562)
234. 

Richard Feynman (5,556) (was: Richard P. Feynman)
235. 

Kim Stanley Robinson (5,530)
236. 

Khaled Hosseini (5,510)
237. 

Mitch Albom (5,504)
238. 

Judy Blume (5,487)
239. 

Lois Lowry (5,481)
240. 

Charlaine Harris (5,463)
241. 

Jean M. Auel (5,427)
242. 

Guy Gavriel Kay (5,427)
243. 

Carl Sagan (5,419)
244. 

Warren Ellis (5,415)
245. 

Mary Shelley (5,410) (was: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
246. 

Virginia C. Andrews (5,409) (was: V.C. Andrews)
247. 

Harry Harrison (5,400)
248. 

Robert Silverberg (5,394)
249. 

Philippa Gregory (5,388)
250. 

Frank McCourt (5,388)
251. 

Samuel Beckett (5,365)
252. 

Jim Butcher (5,364)
253. 

Frances Hodgson Burnett (5,359)
254. 

E. B. White (5,357)
255. 

Christopher Paolini (5,331)
256. 

Harry Turtledove (5,327)
257. 

Jules Verne (5,313)
258. 

G. K. Chesterton (5,284)
259. 

Geoffrey Chaucer (5,270)
260. 

Maeve Binchy (5,229)
261. 

Noam Chomsky (5,222)
262. 

Richard Adams (author) (5,207) (was: Richard Adams)
263. 

Stephen Hawking (5,167)
264. 

Robert Graves (5,166)
265. 

Beverly Cleary (5,159)
266. 

Anita Shreve (5,157)
267. 

Zadie Smith (5,131)
268. 

Gustave Flaubert (5,127)
269. 

Joseph Campbell (5,117)
270. 

Bret Easton Ellis (5,100)
271. 

David McCullough (5,100)
272. 

Thomas Mann (5,092)
273. 

Sigmund Freud (5,082)
274. 

E. Annie Proulx (5,072) (was: Annie Proulx)
275. 

Henry David Thoreau (5,069)
276. 

Harlan Ellison (5,052)
277. 

Tracy Chevalier (5,023)
278. 

Victor Hugo (5,023)
279. 

Raymond Chandler (5,016)
280. 

Gary Larson (4,995)
281. 

Steven Levitt (4,995) (was: Steven D. Levitt)
282. 

John Sandford (novelist) (4,988) (was: John Sandford)
283. 

Connie Willis (4,980)
284. 

Patricia Wrede (4,960) (was: Patricia C. Wrede)
285. 

Thomas Harris (4,959)
286. 

Sue Monk Kidd (4,938)
287. 

Frank Miller (comics) (4,914) (was: Frank Miller)
288. 

Diane Duane (4,898)
289. 

Enid Blyton (4,873)
290. 

Charles M. Schulz (4,863)
291. 

Katherine Kurtz (4,828)
292. 

Christine Feehan (4,825)
293. 

Martin Amis (4,791)
294. 

Tony Hillerman (4,783)
295. 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (4,780)
296. 

Elizabeth George (4,778)
297. 

Ken Follett (4,773)
298. 

R. L. Stine (4,753) (was: R. l. Stine)
299. 

James A. Michener (4,751)

300. 

Laurie R. King (4,745)
301. 

Mary Stewart (4,745)
302. 

Dave Barry (4,733)
303. 

Jonathan Safran Foer (4,730)
304. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (4,708) (was: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
305. 

Alice Walker (4,708)
306. 

Max Lucado (4,679)
307. 

Barbara Hambly (4,670)
308. 

Philip José Farmer (4,663) (was: Philip Jose Farmer)
309. 

Sherrilyn Kenyon (4,649)
310. 

Reader's Digest (4,649) (was: Reader's Digest editors)
311. 

Bram Stoker (4,647)
312. 

Patricia A. McKillip (4,640)
313. 

Marcel Proust (4,598)
314. 

Ian Rankin (4,590)
315. 

Niccolò Machiavelli (4,590) (was: Niccolo Machiavelli)
316. 

Aristotle (4,571)
317. 

Stephen Jay Gould (4,568)
318. 

Timothy Zahn (4,553)
319. 

Willa Cather (4,551)
320. 

Ian Fleming (4,541)
321. 

Frederik Pohl (4,533)
322. 

Peter David (4,531)
323. 

David Foster Wallace (4,530)
324. 

Jon Krakauer (4,517)
325. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4,480)
326. 

Sheri S. Tepper (4,455)
327. 

Lynne Truss (4,449)
328. 

Wally Lamb (4,444)
329. 

Jane Yolen (4,443)
330. 

Simon Winchester (4,435)
331. 

Jostein Gaarder (4,434)
332. 

W. Somerset Maugham (4,431)
333. 

Anne Perry (4,428)
334. 

Tanya Huff (4,426)
335. 

Ruth Rendell (4,418)
336. 

Thomas Friedman (4,412) (was: Thomas L. Friedman)
337. 

William Goldman (4,383)
338. 

Saul Bellow (4,363)
339. 

Douglas Hofstadter (4,346) (was: Douglas R. Hofstadter)
340. 

Elie Wiesel (4,338)
341. 

William Strunk, Jr. (4,328) (was: William Strunk)
342. 

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (4,328) (was: L. E. Modesitt Jr.)
343. 

Voltaire (4,326)
344. 

Karl Marx (4,322)
345. 

Jonathan Franzen (4,320)
346. 

Daphne du Maurier (4,319) (was: Daphne Du Maurier)
347. 

Tanith Lee (4,315)
348. 

Anne Lamott (4,314)
349. 

Kevin J. Anderson (4,280) (was: Kevin Anderson)
350. 

Stephen Ambrose (4,277) (was: Stephen E. Ambrose)
351. 

Franklin W. Dixon (4,276)
352. 

Augustine of Hippo (4,271) (was: Saint, Bishop of Hippo Augustine)
353. 

Samuel R. Delany (4,266)
354. 

Arthur Miller (4,264)
355. 

Alice Hoffman (4,259)
356. 

Catherine Coulter (4,259)
357. 

Jack London (4,258)
358. 

John Maxwell Coetzee (4,257) (was: J. M. Coetzee)
359. 

Michael Ondaatje (4,243)
360. 

Grant Morrison (4,229)
361. 

Rh Value Publishing (4,223)
362. 

Henry Miller (4,216)
363. 

Daniel Defoe (4,204)
364. 

Anaïs Nin (4,189) (was: Anais Nin)
365. 

K. A. Applegate (4,179) (was: K.A. Applegate)
366. 

Sandra Brown (4,169)
367. 

Ken Kesey (4,163)
368. 

J. G. Ballard (4,154)
369. 

James Herriot (4,147)
370. 

Jude Deveraux (4,121)
371. 

Nick Bantock (4,119)
372. 

José Saramago (4,110) (was: SARAMAGO)
373. 

Larry McMurtry (4,108)
374. 

Miguel de Cervantes (4,093) (was: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
375. 

Berkeley Breathed (4,088) (was: Berke Breathed)
376. 

Francesca Lia Block (4,077)
377. 

Robertson Davies (4,077)
378. 

Peter F. Hamilton (4,073)
379. 

Danielle Steel (4,050)
380. 

T. H. White (4,043)
381. 

Jonathan Lethem (4,040)
382. 

Elmore Leonard (4,031)
383. 

Lawrence Block (4,030)
384. 

Julian Barnes (4,011)
385. 

Garth Ennis (3,993)
386. 

James Ellroy (3,983)
387. 

Art Spiegelman (3,982)
388. 

Gore Vidal (3,980)
389. 

Bertrand Russell (3,977)
390. 

Eric Schlosser (3,973)
391. 

Brian K. Vaughan (3,966)
392. 

China Miéville (3,953) (was: China Mieville)
393. 

Edward Gorey (3,946)
394. 

Gordon R. Dickson (3,934)
395. 

Francine Pascal (3,931)
396. 

Hergé (3,928) (was: Herge)
397. 

C. S. Forester (3,915) (was: C.S. Forester)
398. 

Jennifer Crusie (3,897)
399. 

Octavia E. Butler (3,884)

400. 

Jonathan Swift (3,875)
401. 

Iris Murdoch (3,855)
402. 

Jennifer Weiner (3,839)
403. 

Mary Pope Osborne (3,830)
404. 

David Mitchell (3,828)
405. 

David Baldacci (3,823)
406. 

Jon Stewart (3,796)
407. 

Donna Tartt (3,795)
408. 

Michael Cunningham (3,782)
409. 

Anton Chekhov (3,779) (was: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
410. 

Johanna Lindsey (3,773)
411. 

Irvine Welsh (3,769)
412. 

Joan Didion (3,767)
413. 

Marian Keyes (3,747)
414. 

Ann Brashares (3,746)
415. 

N. T. Wright (3,734)
416. 

Jack Vance (3,733)
417. 

Julie Garwood (3,731)
418. 

Wilkie Collins (3,728)
419. 

John Kennedy Toole (3,723)
420. 

Robin Cook (3,717)
421. 

Sophocles (3,713)
422. 

Harold Bloom (3,697)
423. 

Arturo Pérez-Reverte (3,697) (was: Arturo Perez-Reverte)
424. 

Michael Moore (3,693)
425. 

Walter Scott (3,662) (was: Sir Walter Scott)
426. 

Rainer Maria Rilke (3,638)
427. 

T. Coraghessan Boyle (3,625) (was: T.C. Boyle)
428. 

Linda Howard (3,623)
429. 

Elizabeth Moon (3,620)
430. 

Carl Jung (3,614) (was: C. G. Jung)
431. 

Paul Theroux (3,602)
432. 

Robert M. Pirsig (3,589)
433. 

Tom Stoppard (3,584)
434. 

Stephen R. Lawhead (3,584)
435. 

Karen Armstrong (3,563)
436. 

Thomas Merton (3,560)
437. 

Jeffery Deaver (3,551)
438. 

Jhumpa Lahiri (3,547)
439. 

R. C. Sproul (3,544)
440. 

Arundhati Roy (3,537)
441. 

John Fowles (3,537)
442. 

Jacqueline Carey (3,531)
443. 

Philip Yancey (3,531)
444. 

Elizabeth Kostova (3,530)
445. 

John D. MacDonald (3,528)
446. 

John Milton (3,523)
447. 

Armistead Maupin (3,515)
448. 

Cornelia Funke (3,506)
449. 

Christopher Pike (author) (3,502) (was: Christopher Pike)
450. 

Doris Lessing (3,498)
451. 

Will Durant (3,497)
452. 

Kathy Reichs (3,496)
453. 

Stephen Covey (3,472) (was: Stephen R. Covey)
454. 

Spider Robinson (3,470)
455. 

Oliver Sacks (3,463)
456. 

Jan Karon (3,451)
457. 

Beatrix Potter (3,445)
458. 

Stanisław Lem (3,429) (was: Stanislaw Lem)
459. 

Kelley Armstrong (3,417)
460. 

John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (3,415)  (was: John Gardner}
461. 

Honoré de Balzac (3,409)
462. 

Erik Larson (author) (3,409) (was: Erik Larson)
463. 

Douglas Preston (3,408)
464. 

James Lee Burke (3,399)
465. 

Flannery O'Connor (3,386)
466. 

Eleanor Hibbert (3,383) (was: Jean Plaidy)
467. 

Chuck Swindoll (3,370) (was: Charles R. Swindoll)
468. 

Virgil (3,369)
469. 

Poppy Z. Brite (3,367)
470. 

Glen Cook (3,366)
471. 

Walt Whitman (3,358)
472. 

René Goscinny (3,347) (was: Rene Goscinny)
473. 

Shel Silverstein (3,334)
474. 

Maya Angelou (3,331)
475. 

Dashiell Hammett (3,318)
476. 

Ben Bova (3,314)
477. 

Richard Bach (3,297)
478. 

Rebecca Wells (3,293)
479. 

Anita Diamant (3,284)
480. 

George MacDonald (3,278)
481. 

Barbara Tuchman (3,270) (was: Barbara W. Tuchman)
482. 

Angela Carter (3,268)
483. 

Howard Zinn (3,267)
484. 

Louis Sachar (3,267)
485. 

Tennessee Williams (3,260)
486. 

Bruce Sterling (3,245)
487. 

Immanuel Kant (3,243)
488. 

Jack L. Chalker (3,241)
489. 

Nelson DeMille (3,241)
490. 

David Gemmell (3,227)
491. 

Steven Pinker (3,215)
492. 

Simon Green (3,211) (was: Simon R. Green)
493. 

Jack Canfield (3,210)
494. 

Fritz Leiber (3,204)
495. 

Ngaio Marsh (3,180)
496. 

Peter Ackroyd (3,156)
497. 

Kenneth Robeson (3,145)
498. 

Harlan Coben (3,137)
499. 

Annie Dillard (3,137)

500. 

Martha Grimes (3,134)
501. 

Rita Mae Brown (3,133)
502. 

Mikhail Bulgakov (3,130)
503. 

Brian Herbert (3,123)
504. 

Barbara Ehrenreich (3,122)
505. 

Ann Patchett (3,114)
506. 

Tim Powers (3,112)
507. 

Vernor Vinge (3,098)
508. 

Julia Quinn (3,096)
509. 

Dorothy Dunnett (3,093)
510. 

Better Homes and Gardens (magazine) (3,087) (was: Better Homes and Gardens)
511. 

Robert E. Howard (3,086)
512. 

Anne Frank (3,086)
513. 

MaryJanice Davidson (3,077)
514. 

Chaim Potok (3,076)
515. 

Jane Smiley (3,074)
516. 

Zora Neale Hurston (3,072)
517. 

Peter Carey (novelist) (3,071) (was: Peter Carey)
518. 

Søren Kierkegaard (3,068) (was: Soren Kierkegaard)
519. 

Chinua Achebe (3,066)
520. 

Lee Child (3,058)
521. 

Julian May (3,046)
522. 

Elizabeth Berg (author) (3,028) (was: Elizabeth Berg)
523. 

Sarah Waters (3,026)
524. 

Joe Haldeman (3,025)
525. 

Richard Russo (3,022)
526. 

Christopher Golden (3,019)
527. 

Kim Harrison (3,013)
528. 

Brian Aldiss (3,008)
529. 

Brian Michael Bendis (2,997)
530. 

Aleister Crowley (2,992)
531. 

David Drake (2,982)
532. 

John Stott (2,978) (was: John R. W. Stott)
533. 

Iris Johansen (2,971)
534. 

Bill Willingham (2,964)
535. 

Katherine Paterson (2,960)
536. 

Joanne Harris (2,949)
537. 

Carol Shields (2,942)
538. 

Charles Spurgeon (2,938) (was: C. H. Spurgeon)
539. 

Colleen McCullough (2,923)
540. 

Fred Saberhagen (2,913)
541. 

Michael A. Stackpole (2,912)
542. 

Stephen Baxter (2,909)
543. 

Tim O'Brien (author) (2,908) (was: Tim O'Brien)
544. 

Norman Mailer (2,907)
545. 

William Makepeace Thackeray (2,902)
546. 

J. I. Packer (2,900)
547. 

E. L. Doctorow (2,900)
548. 

Evan Hunter (2,898) (was: Ed McBain)
549. 

Edward Tufte (2,898) (was: Edward R. Tufte)
550. 

Louise Erdrich (2,897)
551. 

Lindsey Davis (2,895)
552. 

James Baldwin (writer) (2,894) (was: James Baldwin)
553. 

Jeffrey Archer (2,883)
554. 

Pearl S. Buck (2,876)
555. 

Henri Nouwen (2,875) (was: Henri J. M. Nouwen)
556. 

Stephen Fry (2,870)
557. 

Gregory Benford (2,865)
558. 

James Clavell (2,863)
559. 

Erle Stanley Gardner (2,863)
560. 

Henrik Ibsen (2,853)
561. 

Dalai Lama (2,853)
562. 

John Wyndham (2,849)
563. 

Marion Chesney (2,846) (was: M. C. Beaton)
564. 

Don Carson (2,831) (was: D. A. Carson)
565. 

Anthony Bourdain (2,825)
566. 

Stan and Jan Berenstain (2,825) (was: Stan Berenstain)
567. 

Alastair Reynolds (2,824)
568. 

James Blish (2,812)
569. 

David Lodge (author) (2,803) (was: David Lodge)
570. 

Charles Darwin (2,801)
571. 

Anne Bishop (2,797)
572. 

Garrison Keillor (2,796)
573. 

Natsuki Takaya (2,789)
574. 

Raymond Carver (2,784)
575. 

John Keegan (2,770)
576. 

Euripides (2,770)
577. 

David Guterson (2,769)
578. 

V. S. Naipaul (2,765) (was: V.S. Naipaul)
579. 

Khalil Gibran (2,765) (was: Kahlil Gibran)
580. 

Pablo Neruda (2,758)
581. 

Garry Trudeau (2,756) (was: G. B. Trudeau)
582. 

Émile Zola (2,754) (was: Emile Zola)
583. 

Jane Green (author) (2,753) (was: Jane Green)
584. 

Roland Barthes (2,750)
585. 

Caleb Carr (2,748)
586. 

Terrance Dicks (2,743)
587. 

Roddy Doyle (2,734)
588. 

Al Franken (2,734)
589. 

Melanie Rawn (2,729)
590. 

Alice Munro (2,717)
591. 

John Berendt (2,705)
592. 

Günter Grass (2,703) (was: Gunter Grass)
593. 

John Bunyan (2,694)
594. 

Kate Atkinson (2,692)
595. 

Stuart Woods (2,688)
596. 

Eugene H. Peterson (2,682)
597. 

Dava Sobel (2,674)
598. 

Emily Dickinson (2,673)
599. 

Charles Frazier (2,662)

600. 

William Butler Yeats (2,662) (was: W. B. Yeats)
601. 

Kate Chopin (2,656)
602. 

Scott Westerfeld (2,654)
603. 

Margaret Mitchell (2,643)
604. 

Jim Davis (cartoonist) (2,632) (was: Jim Davis)
605. 

Mary Balogh (2,629)
606. 

William Blake (2,629)
607. 

Francis Schaeffer (2,629) (was: Francis A. Schaeffer)
608. 

Bob Woodward (2,623)
609. 

George MacDonald Fraser (2,620)
610. 

Christopher Stasheff (2,619)
611. 

James Gleick (2,619)
612. 

Simone de Beauvoir (2,618) (was: Simone De Beauvoir)
613. 

Orhan Pamuk (2,610)
614. 

Ralph Ellison (2,609)
615. 

Debbie Stoller (2,608)
616. 

Lisa Kleypas (2,608)
617. 

John Brunner (novelist) (2,607) (was: John Brunner)
618. 

Ovid (2,605)
619. 

Mark Z. Danielewski (2,598)
620. 

Benjamin Hoff (2,588)
621. 

Lauren Weisberger (2,588)
622. 

Winston Churchill (2,581) (was: Winston S. Churchill)
623. 

Frank E. Peretti (2,577)
624. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2,574)
625. 

Stephanie Laurens (2,563)
626. 

Yukio Mishima (2,560)
627. 

Scott Cunningham (2,556)
628. 

Jacques Derrida (2,553)
629. 

Alison Weir (historian) (2,553) (was: Alison Weir)
630. 

Azar Nafisi (2,551)
631. 

Edith Hamilton (2,550)
632. 

Katharine Kerr (2,546)
633. 

Sidney Sheldon (2,544)
634. 

Alain de Botton (2,543)
635. 

Daniel Dennett (2,541) (was: Daniel C. Dennett)
636. 

Antonia Fraser (2,541)
637. 

Kenneth Grahame (2,538)
638. 

John McPhee (2,536)
639. 

Frederick Forsyth (2,532)
640. 

Peter Mayle (2,531)
641. 

Nhat Hanh (2,523) (was: Thich Nhat Hanh)
642. 

Alfred Bester (2,512)
643. 

Donald E. Westlake (2,502)
644. 

Brian Greene (2,501)
645. 

Charles Stross (2,494)
646. 

Gertrude Chandler Warner (2,491)
647. 

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2,488) (was: Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
648. 

Sarah Vowell (2,487)
649. 

Primo Levi (2,487)
650. 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2,484)
651. 

Sharon Shinn (2,481)
652. 

Carson McCullers (2,480)
653. 

E. L. Konigsburg (2,471) (was: E.L. Konigsburg)
654. 

Judith McNaught (2,458)
655. 

Kingsley Amis (2,457)
656. 

Gail Carson Levine (2,454)
657. 

National Geographic Society (2,452)
658. 

Don Miller (author) (2,450) (was: Donald Miller)
659. 

Martin Heidegger (2,445)
660. 

Dennis Lehane (2,443)
661. 

Mary Renault (2,440)
662. 

Janette Oke (2,433)
663. 

Allen Ginsberg (2,429)
664. 

Marjane Satrapi (2,428)
665. 

Rick Warren (2,420)
666. 

Patrick Süskind (2,416) (was: Patrick Suskind)
667. 

John Eldredge (2,414)
668. 

John Calvin (2,411)
669. 

Gladys-Marie Fry (2,411)
670. 

Fannie Flagg (2,409)
671. 

Nikolai Gogol (2,407)
672. 

E. Nesbit (2,405)
673. 

Nicholson Baker (2,400)
674. 

Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2,396) (was: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
675. 

Iain Pears (2,383)
676. 

Mervyn Peake (2,382)
677. 

Richard Brautigan (2,381)
678. 

E. E. Smith (2,380)
679. 

James Frey (2,374)
680. 

Anna Quindlen (2,373)
681. 

P. J. O'Rourke (2,366)
682. 

Faye Kellerman (2,364)
683. 

W. E. B. Griffin (2,364)
684. 

Suzanne Brockmann (2,360)
685. 

Henning Mankell (2,357)
686. 

Wilbur Smith (2,355)
687. 

James Fenimore Cooper (2,353)
688. 

Louis de Bernières (2,350) (was: Louis de Bernieres)
689. 

Alistair MacLean (2,349)
690. 

E. E. Cummings (2,346)
691. 

Peter S. Beagle (2,341)
692. 

Georges Simenon (2,341)
693. 

Gary Paulsen (2,334)
694. 

Kazuo Koike (2,333)
695. 

Jeff Smith (cartoonist) (2,331) (was: Jeff Smith)
696. 

Josh McDowell (2,330)
697. 

Margaret Wise Brown (2,323)
698. 

L. Sprague de Camp (2,322) (was: L. Sprague De Camp)
699. 

John Saul (2,321)

700. 

Ann Maxwell (2,318) (was: Elizabeth Lowell)
701. 

Stephen Crane (2,298)
702. 

Sinclair Lewis (2,289)
703. 

Diane Mott Davidson (2,287)
704. 

John Varley (author) (2,286) (was: John Varley)
705. 

Marilynne Robinson (2,286)
706. 

Brian McLaren (2,285) (was: Brian D. McLaren)
707. 

Jennifer Roberson (2,282)
708. 

J. A. Jance (2,279) (was: J.A. Jance)
709. 

Steve Martin (2,279)
710. 

Peter Straub (2,271)
711. 

Patricia Highsmith (2,269)
712. 

Minette Walters (2,269)
713. 

Elizabeth Gaskell (2,263)
714. 

Sharon Kay Penman (2,255)
715. 

Walter Mosley (2,255)
716. 

Matt Groening (2,241)
717. 

Lee Strobel (2,240)
718. 

F. F. Bruce (2,239)
719. 

Pat Conroy (2,238)
720. 

Clifford D. Simak (2,228)
721. 

Daniel J. Boorstin (2,228)
722. 

Dorothy Gilman (2,226)
723. 

Sun Tzu (2,221)
724. 

David Allen (2,215)
725. 

Rumiko Takahashi (2,215)
726. 

Tami Hoag (2,211)
727. 

Jonathan Carroll (2,207)
728. 

Hans Christian Andersen (2,203)
729. 

Robert Harris (novelist) (2,203) (was: Robert Harris)
730. 

Richard Foster (religion) (2,193) (was: Richard J. Foster)
731. 

Simon Schama (2,191)
732. 

Sue Townsend (2,185)
733. 

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2,185)
734. 

James Thurber (2,181)
735. 

John Stuart Mill (2,180)
736. 

Louise Rennison (2,178)
737. 

Scott Turow (2,175)
738. 

Erich Maria Remarque (2,172)
739. 

Elinor Brent-Dyer (2,170) (was: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer)
740. 

Len Deighton (2,167)
741. 

S. M. Stirling (2,165)
742. 

Edward Irving Wortis (2,165) (was: Avi)
743. 

Robert Frost (2,156)
744. 

Walker Percy (2,155)
745. 

Leon Uris (2,143)
746. 

Janet Fitch (2,141)
747. 

Julia Cameron (2,140)
748. 

Keith Laumer (2,139)
749. 

Martin Gardner (2,136)
750. 

Joanna Cole (2,132)
751. 

Robert Rankin (2,130)
752. 

Ivan Turgenev (2,130) (was: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev)
753. 

Robert Crais (2,130)
754. 

Joan Aiken (2,127)
755. 

Thomas Cahill (2,118)
756. 

L. Ron Hubbard (2,117)
757. 

Vikram Seth (2,114)
758. 

Jonathan Stroud (2,109)
759. 

Bertolt Brecht (2,105)
760. 

Michel Houellebecq (2,101)
761. 

Sara Paretsky (2,098)
762. 

Seamus Heaney (2,095)
763. 

Susan Sontag (2,086)
764. 

Norton Juster (2,080)
765. 

Tom Holt (2,080)
766. 

Edward Said (2,077) (was: Edward W. Said)
767. 

Hannah Arendt (2,076)
768. 

Edward Rutherfurd (2,072)
769. 

Daniel Quinn (2,066)
770. 

Mortimer Adler (2,063) (was: Mortimer J. Adler)
771. 

Aeschylus (2,062)
772. 

Wallace Stegner (2,060)
773. 

Jean Craighead George (2,055)
774. 

Rohinton Mistry (2,055)
775. 

Mario Puzo (2,055)
776. 

Elaine Pagels (2,054)
777. 

John Barth (2,052)
778. 

Lawrence Durrell (2,052)
779. 

Wendell Berry (2,052)
780. 

Robert J. Sawyer (2,050)
781. 

Simon Singh (2,047)
782. 

Bill Amend (2,047)
783. 

L. J. Smith (2,045) (was: L.J. Smith)
784. 

Jack Higgins (2,039)
785. 

Debbie Macomber (2,034)
786. 

Laura Esquivel (2,033)
787. 

John Banville (2,031)
788. 

Laozi (2,029) (was: Lao Tzu)
789. 

Merriam-Webster (2,028) (was: Inc Merriam-Webster)
790. 

Valerie Tripp (2,025)
791. 

Edward Abbey (2,025)
792. 

John C. Maxwell (2,025)
793. 

John Dickson Carr (2,024)
794. 

Sharyn McCrumb (2,020)
795. 

Katie MacAlister (2,017)
796. 

Tess Gerritsen (2,016)
797. 

A. E. van Vogt (2,009) (was: A. E. Van Vogt)
798. 

Margery Allingham (2,007)
799. 

Eric Carle (2,005)

800. 

Geraldine Brooks (2,003)
801. 

Wendy and Richard Pini (2,000) (was: Wendy Pini)
802. 

Betty Smith (1,998)
803. 

Gillian Rubinstein (1,994) (was: Lian Hearn)
804. 

Charles Baudelaire (1,990)
805. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1,990)
806. 

Robert Anton Wilson (1,988)
807. 

Richard Matheson (1,986)
808. 

Naomi Novik (1,982)
809. 

Nevada Barr (1,974)
810. 

Pat Barker (1,970)
811. 

Scott O'Dell (1,970)
812. 

Stephenie Meyer (1,970)
813. 

Jerry Spinelli (1,966)
814. 

J. M. Barrie (1,962)
815. 

Banana Yoshimoto (1,959)
816. 

Dylan Thomas (1,956)
817. 

Russell Hoban (1,944)
818. 

Joseph Ellis (1,938) (was: Joseph J. Ellis)
819. 

Brian Lumley (1,930)
820. 

Reginald Hill (1,930)
821. 

Sherman Alexie (1,929)
822. 

Richard Ford (1,927)
823. 

Brian O'Nolan (1,925) (was: Flann O'Brien)
824. 

Henry Fielding (1,924)
825. 

John Jakes (1,923)
826. 

S. E. Hinton (1,921)
827. 

Carlos Castaneda (1,919)
828. 

Theodore Sturgeon (1,918)
829. 

Paul Johnson (writer) (1,917) (was: Paul Johnson)
830. 

Richard Wright (author) (1,916) (was: Richard Wright)
831. 

Mary Roach (1,914)
832. 

George Bernard Shaw (1,914)
833. 

Muriel Spark (1,909)
834. 

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1,909) (was: A. W. Tozer)
835. 

Greg Iles (1,908)
836. 

Mary Doria Russell (1,906)
837. 

Ken MacLeod (1,905)
838. 

Josephine Tey (1,905) (was: Josephine tey)
839. 

Holly Black (1,902)
840. 

Michael Lewis (1,902)
841. 

Aristophanes (1,897)
842. 

John Crowley (1,896)
843. 

Steven Erikson (1,896)
844. 

Kay Hooper (1,895)
845. 

Lynn Flewelling (1,895)
846. 

Natalie Goldberg (1,890)
847. 

Dorothy Allison (1,886)
848. 

René Descartes (1,885) (was: Rene Descartes)
849. 

Dave Duncan (writer) (1,879) (was: Dave Duncan)
850. 

Jon Scieszka (1,877)
851. 

William Styron (1,876)
852. 

Shirley Jackson (1,871)
853. 

David Hume (1,870)
854. 

Eric Hobsbawm (1,869) (was: E. J. Hobsbawm)
855. 

Gregory Keyes (1,867) (was: J. Gregory Keyes)
856. 

Mark Kurlansky (1,867)
857. 

Marge Piercy (1,862)
858. 

Elisabeth Elliot (1,858)
859. 

Herodotus (1,857)
860. 

Joss Whedon (1,856)
861. 

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1,855)
862. 

Richard Morgan (1,851)
863. 

Donna Leon (1,850)
864. 

Nevil Shute (1,847)
865. 

F. Paul Wilson (1,846)
866. 

John Knowles (1,844)
867. 

David Macaulay (1,842)
868. 

Gerald Durrell (1,840)
869. 

Cynthia Voigt (1,840)
870. 

Chris Claremont (1,840)
871. 

Mark Helprin (1,838)
872. 

Cynthia Rylant (1,836)
873. 

Michael Pollan (1,835)
874. 

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1,834)
875. 

Greg Rucka (1,832)
876. 

Christina Dodd (1,831)
877. 

Arthur Ransome (1,830)
878. 

Martin Luther (1,829)
879. 

Emma McLaughlin (1,828)
880. 

Lynne Reid Banks (1,827)
881. 

John Mortimer (1,827)
882. 

Mario Vargas Llosa (1,826)
883. 

Eric Flint (1,823)
884. 

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1,821)
885. 

Laurie Halse Anderson (1,821)
886. 

Fodor's (1,819)
887. 

Upton Sinclair (1,815)
888. 

Marguerite Henry (1,815)
889. 

bell hooks (1,814) (was: Bell Hooks)
890. 

Sandra Cisneros (1,812)
891. 

Daniel Clowes (1,811)
892. 

Yuu Watase (1,810)
893. 

Walter Farley (1,802)
894. 

Sara Douglass (1,801)
895. 

Thomas Malory (1,799) (was: Thomas, Sir Malory)
896. 

Chris Bohjalian (1,796)
897. 

Alan Watts (1,788)
898. 

Richard Powers (1,786)
899. 

Astrid Lindgren (1,784)

900. 

Plutarch (1,783)
901. 

Edward Gibbon (1,782)
902. 

Michael Ende (1,781)
903. 

Celia S. Friedman (1,779) (was: C. S. Friedman)
904. 

Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1,778) (was: Walter M. Miller Jr.)
905. 

Herman Wouk (1,777)
906. 

Sarah Dunant (1,776)
907. 

Kate DiCamillo (1,774)
908. 

Karen Blixen (1,772) (was: Isak Dinesen)
909. 

Jane Hamilton (1,766)
910. 

Ian Caldwell (1,765)
911. 

Chuck Klosterman (1,763)
912. 

Sharon Creech (1,761)
913. 

Rudy Rucker (1,758)
914. 

Eudora Welty (1,758)
915. 

Tomie dePaola (1,757)
916. 

Betty Crocker (1,754)
917. 

W. G. Sebald (1,754) (was: W.G. Sebald)
918. 

Ann Rule (1,754)
919. 

Andrew Vachss (1,753)
920. 

Alexis de Tocqueville (1,749)
921. 

Bruce Coville (1,747)
922. 

Martin H. Greenberg (1,739)
923. 

Colin Dexter (1,738)
924. 

Lori Foster (1,732)
925. 

Stendhal (1,732)
926. 

Caroline B. Cooney (1,731)
927. 

Gilles Deleuze (1,730)
928. 

Richard Laymon (1,729)
929. 

Peter Høeg (1,728) (was: Peter Hoeg)
930. 

Bruce Chatwin (1,727)
931. 

Stephen Chbosky (1,724)
932. 

Ambrose Bierce (1,724)
933. 

Mike Carey (1,723)
934. 

W. H. Auden (1,722)
935. 

Theodore Dreiser (1,722)
936. 

Naguib Mahfouz (1,719)
937. 

Alison Bechdel (1,718)
938. 

Gertrude Stein (1,716)
939. 

Starhawk (1,716)
940. 

Susan Wittig Albert (1,716)
941. 

Ellery Queen (1,712)
942. 

Woody Allen (1,710)
943. 

Molière (1,709) (was: Moliere)
944. 

Warren W. Wiersbe (1,709)
945. 

William Manchester (1,708)
946. 

Sarah Dessen (1,707)
947. 

Sandra Boynton (1,705)
948. 

Diana Palmer (1,703)
949. 

Jean Rhys (1,697)
950. 

Dorothy Parker (1,694)
951. 

Sebastian Faulks (1,694)
952. 

Ted Hughes (1,692)
953. 

Jacob Grimm (1,690)
954. 

Dale Brown (1,689)
955. 

Peter Robinson (poet), 

Peter Robinson (novelist) and 

Peter Robinson (speechwriter) (1,688) (was: Peter Robinson)
956. 

Francine Rivers (1,686)
957. 

Colin Wilson (1,685)
958. 

Juliet Marillier (1,679)
959. 

Robert R. McCammon (1,676) (was: Robert McCammon)
960. 

Michel Faber (1,674)
961. 

William Boyd (writer) (1,674) (was: William Boyd)
962. 

Jack McDevitt (1,671)
963. 

Michael Jan Friedman (1,666)
964. 

Jonathan Edwards (1,661)
965. 

Ben Elton (1,661)
966. 

Margaret George (1,661)
967. 

André Gide (1,660) (was: Andre Gide)
968. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1,655)
969. 

Stan Lee (1,653)
970. 

Walter Benjamin (1,653)
971. 

Sunset Books (1,651)
972. 

Dale Carnegie (1,647)
973. 

James Dobson (1,645) (was: James C. Dobson)
974. 

Martha Stewart (1,643)
975. 

Washington Irving (1,641)
976. 

Mike Mignola (1,639)
977. 

Rosamunde Pilcher (1,636)
978. 

John Locke (1,628)
979. 

Tracy Kidder (1,627)
980. 

Ellen Datlow (1,626)
981. 

Naomi Klein (1,624)
982. 

Melissa Bank (1,624)
983. 

Kage Baker (1,623)
984. 

Matthew Pearl (1,623)
985. 

Andrew Greeley (1,623) (was: Andrew M. Greeley)
986. 

Andrew Lang (1,621)
987. 

Robert Kiyosaki (1,620) (was: Robert T. Kiyosaki)
988. 

Thomas More (1,618)
989. 

Robert Penn Warren (1,615)
990. 

Guy de Maupassant (1,615)
991. 

Julio Cortázar (1,612) (was: Julio Cortazar)
992. 

Trudi Canavan (1,612)
993. 

Kim Edwards (1,609)
994. 

M. Scott Peck (1,608)
995. 

Margaret Drabble (1,606)
996. 

Elizabeth George Speare (1,602)
997. 

Neil Postman (1,600)
998. 

William James (1,599)
999. 

Rosemary Sutcliff (1,596)