Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/LibraryThing top authors
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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.
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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. Image:10von10ggr.pngJ. R. R. Tolkien (56,339) (was: J.R.R. Tolkien) 6. Image:10von10ggr.pngC. S. Lewis (52,487) 7. Image:10von10ggr.pngWilliam Shakespeare (39,126) 8. Image:10von10ggr.pngIsaac Asimov (32,368) 9.
Jane Austen (31,057) 10.
Anne McCaffrey (30,106) 11. Image:10von10ggr.pngDouglas 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngRobert A. Heinlein (26,540) 18.
Charles Dickens (26,373) 19.
Dan Brown (25,016) 20.
Mercedes Lackey (24,065) 21. Image:10von10ggr.pngGeorge 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngErnest 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngMark Twain (16,596) 43.
Janet Evanovich (16,552) 44. Image:10von10ggr.pngJ. 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngAyn 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngHenry James (9,761) 99.
Graham Greene (9,759)
[edit] 100-199
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. Image:5von10ggr.pngCarolyn Keene (9,011) 114.
Alexander McCall Smith (8,967) 115. Image:10von10ggr.pngPlato (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. Image:10von10ggr.pngFriedrich Nietzsche (7,928) 130. Image:10von10ggr.pngThomas 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngD. 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngHunter 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngArthur Golden (6,543) 185.
John Updike (6,538) 186. Image:5von10ggr.pngAudrey Niffenegger (6,527) 187. Image:10von10ggr.pngH. P. Lovecraft (6,493) 188.
Jeffrey Eugenides (6,442) 189.
Helen Fielding (6,430) 190. Image:10von10ggr.pngJorge Luis Borges (6,428) 191.
Lloyd Alexander (6,423) 192. Image:10von10ggr.pngAnthony Burgess (6,416) 193. Image:10von10ggr.pngRudyard 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)
[edit] 200-299
200.Alice Sebold (6,277) 201. Image:10von10ggr.pngTruman Capote (6,250) 202.
Garth Nix (6,248) 203. Image:10von10ggr.pngMichel 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngWilliam 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngDorling 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngRichard 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngNoam 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngAnita 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngSigmund Freud (5,082) 274.
E. Annie Proulx (5,072) (was: Annie Proulx) 275.
Henry David Thoreau (5,069) 276.
Harlan Ellison (5,052) 277. Image:5von10ggr.pngTracy 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngSue 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngKatherine 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngElizabeth George (4,778) 297.
Ken Follett (4,773) 298.
R. L. Stine (4,753) (was: R. l. Stine) 299.
James A. Michener (4,751)
[edit] 300-399
300. Image:5von10ggr.pngLaurie R. King (4,745) 301. Image:5von10ggr.pngMary 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngAristotle (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. Image:5von10ggr.pngWilliam Strunk, Jr. (4,328) (was: William Strunk) 342.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (4,328) (was: L. E. Modesitt Jr.) 343.
Voltaire (4,326) 344. Image:10von10ggr.pngKarl 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngJack 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngNick Bantock (4,119) 372.
José Saramago (4,110) (was: SARAMAGO) 373.
Larry McMurtry (4,108) 374. Image:10von10ggr.pngMiguel 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngBertrand 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)
[edit] 400-499
400.Jonathan Swift (3,875) 401.
Iris Murdoch (3,855) 402.
Jennifer Weiner (3,839) 403.
Mary Pope Osborne (3,830) 404. Image:5von10ggr.pngDavid 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngMarian 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngElizabeth 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJan 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngErik 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngRebecca Wells (3,293) 479. Image:5von10ggr.pngAnita 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngImmanuel 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)
[edit] 500-599
500.Martha Grimes (3,134) 501.
Rita Mae Brown (3,133) 502.
Mikhail Bulgakov (3,130) 503. Image:5von10ggr.pngBrian 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngBetter Homes and Gardens (magazine) (3,087) (was: Better Homes and Gardens) 511. Image:10von10ggr.pngRobert 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngSøren 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngAleister 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJoanne 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngStan 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngCharles Darwin (2,801) 571.
Anne Bishop (2,797) 572.
Garrison Keillor (2,796) 573. Image:5von10ggr.pngNatsuki Takaya (2,789) 574.
Raymond Carver (2,784) 575.
John Keegan (2,770) 576.
Euripides (2,770) 577. Image:5von10ggr.pngDavid 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJane Green (author) (2,753) (was: Jane Green) 584.
Roland Barthes (2,750) 585. Image:5von10ggr.pngCaleb Carr (2,748) 586.
Terrance Dicks (2,743) 587.
Roddy Doyle (2,734) 588.
Al Franken (2,734) 589. Image:5von10ggr.pngMelanie Rawn (2,729) 590.
Alice Munro (2,717) 591. Image:5von10ggr.pngJohn Berendt (2,705) 592.
Günter Grass (2,703) (was: Gunter Grass) 593.
John Bunyan (2,694) 594. Image:5von10ggr.pngKate Atkinson (2,692) 595.
Stuart Woods (2,688) 596.
Eugene H. Peterson (2,682) 597. Image:5von10ggr.pngDava Sobel (2,674) 598.
Emily Dickinson (2,673) 599.
Charles Frazier (2,662)
[edit] 600-699
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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJames Gleick (2,619) 612.
Simone de Beauvoir (2,618) (was: Simone De Beauvoir) 613.
Orhan Pamuk (2,610) 614.
Ralph Ellison (2,609) 615. Image:5von10ggr.pngDebbie 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngBenjamin Hoff (2,588) 621.
Lauren Weisberger (2,588) 622. Image:10von10ggr.pngWinston 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngJacques 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngPeter 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngGertrude 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngSharon 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngMartin 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngPatrick Süskind (2,416) (was: Patrick Suskind) 667. Image:5von10ggr.pngJohn 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngKazuo 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJohn Saul (2,321)
[edit] 700-799
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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJennifer 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngSharon Kay Penman (2,255) 715.
Walter Mosley (2,255) 716.
Matt Groening (2,241) 717. Image:5von10ggr.pngLee 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngDavid 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngRichard Foster (religion) (2,193) (was: Richard J. Foster) 731.
Simon Schama (2,191) 732.
Sue Townsend (2,185) 733. Image:10von10ggr.pngLudwig Wittgenstein (2,185) 734.
James Thurber (2,181) 735.
John Stuart Mill (2,180) 736. Image:5von10ggr.pngLouise 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJanet 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngThomas Cahill (2,118) 756. Image:10von10ggr.pngL. 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngNorton 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngLaura 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngKatie 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)
[edit] 800-899
800.Geraldine Brooks (2,003) 801. Image:5von10ggr.pngWendy and Richard Pini (2,000) (was: Wendy Pini) 802. Image:5von10ggr.pngBetty 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngNevada Barr (1,974) 810. Image:5von10ggr.pngPat 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngMary 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngGreg Iles (1,908) 836. Image:5von10ggr.pngMary Doria Russell (1,906) 837.
Ken MacLeod (1,905) 838. Image:5von10ggr.pngJosephine Tey (1,905) (was: Josephine tey) 839. Image:5von10ggr.pngHolly 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngNatalie 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngDavid Hume (1,870) 854.
Eric Hobsbawm (1,869) (was: E. J. Hobsbawm) 855.
Gregory Keyes (1,867) (was: J. Gregory Keyes) 856. Image:5von10ggr.pngMark 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJohn 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. Image:10von10ggr.pngMartin Luther (1,829) 879. Image:5von10ggr.pngEmma McLaughlin (1,828) 880. Image:5von10ggr.pngLynne Reid Banks (1,827) 881.
John Mortimer (1,827) 882.
Mario Vargas Llosa (1,826) 883.
Eric Flint (1,823) 884. Image:5von10ggr.pngChelsea Quinn Yarbro (1,821) 885.
Laurie Halse Anderson (1,821) 886. Image:5von10ggr.pngFodor'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. Image:5von10ggr.pngWalter Farley (1,802) 894.
Sara Douglass (1,801) 895.
Thomas Malory (1,799) (was: Thomas, Sir Malory) 896. Image:5von10ggr.pngChris Bohjalian (1,796) 897.
Alan Watts (1,788) 898.
Richard Powers (1,786) 899.
Astrid Lindgren (1,784)
[edit] 900-999
900.Plutarch (1,783) 901.
Edward Gibbon (1,782) 902.
Michael Ende (1,781) 903. Image:5von10ggr.pngCelia 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJane Hamilton (1,766) 910.
Ian Caldwell (1,765) 911.
Chuck Klosterman (1,763) 912. Image:5von10ggr.pngSharon Creech (1,761) 913.
Rudy Rucker (1,758) 914.
Eudora Welty (1,758) 915. Image:5von10ggr.pngTomie 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngMartin 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngPeter Høeg (1,728) (was: Peter Hoeg) 930.
Bruce Chatwin (1,727) 931. Image:5von10ggr.pngStephen Chbosky (1,724) 932.
Ambrose Bierce (1,724) 933.
Mike Carey (1,723) 934. Image:10von10ggr.pngW. 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngJuliet Marillier (1,679) 959. Image:5von10ggr.pngRobert R. McCammon (1,676) (was: Robert McCammon) 960. Image:5von10ggr.pngMichel 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngMargaret 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. Image:5von10ggr.pngTracy Kidder (1,627) 980. Image:5von10ggr.pngEllen Datlow (1,626) 981.
Naomi Klein (1,624) 982.
Melissa Bank (1,624) 983. Image:5von10ggr.pngKage Baker (1,623) 984. Image:5von10ggr.pngMatthew 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)

