Authors

472 authors received at least one vote.

Author	Books	Total Votes	In Top 100
Virginia Woolf	6	64	5
Jane Austen	5	63	4
George Eliot	4	60	1
Toni Morrison	5	57	3
Leo Tolstoy	3	47	2
Charles Dickens	6	44	4
James Joyce	2	39	1
Henry James	6	29	3
Marcel Proust	1	27	1
Vladimir Nabokov	5	27	2
Gabriel García Márquez	4	23	1
Gustave Flaubert	2	22	2
Charlotte Brontë	1	21	1
F Scott Fitzgerald	2	21	1
George Orwell	2	20	1
Kazuo Ishiguro	3	19	2
Franz Kafka	3	18	2
Herman Melville	1	18	1
Laurence Sterne	2	18	1
Hilary Mantel	4	17	1
Muriel Spark	5	16	1
Chinua Achebe	2	15	1
Emily Brontë	1	15	1
Salman Rushdie	3	15	1
James Baldwin	4	14	2
Thomas Mann	4	14	2
Edith Wharton	3	13	1
Miguel de Cervantes	1	11	1
Arundhati Roy	1	10	1
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	1	10	1
Marilynne Robinson	3	10	1
Mary Shelley	1	10	1
William Faulkner	3	10	1
Joseph Conrad	3	9	1
Margaret Atwood	1	9	1
Ralph Ellison	1	9	1
Thomas Hardy	3	9	2
WG Sebald	2	9	2
Cormac McCarthy	3	8	2
Doris Lessing	2	8	1
Jean Rhys	3	8	1
Ursula K Le Guin	4	8	1
VS Naipaul	3	8	1
Zora Neale Hurston	1	8	1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2	7	1
Don DeLillo	5	7
Elena Ferrante	2	7	1
Ford Madox Ford	2	7	1
Fyodor Dostoevsky	4	7	1
Graham Greene	3	7	1
John Steinbeck	3	7
Saul Bellow	4	7
Zadie Smith	2	7	1
Albert Camus	3	6
Ernest Hemingway	2	6	1
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	1	6	1
Han Kang	2	6	1
Italo Calvino	3	6	1
Rohinton Mistry	1	6	1
Shirley Hazzard	1	6	1
William Makepeace Thackeray	1	6	1
Abdulrazak Gurnah	3	5
Alan Hollinghurst	2	5	1
Alice Walker	2	5	1
Angela Carter	3	5
Anthony Trollope	3	5
EM Forster	1	5	1
Evelyn Waugh	4	5
Iris Murdoch	5	5
JM Coetzee	1	5	1
John Updike	5	5
Mikhail Bulgakov	1	5	1
Octavia E Butler	2	5	1
Penelope Fitzgerald	2	5
Philip Roth	3	5
Willa Cather	2	5	1
Anita Brookner	4	4
Bram Stoker	1	4	1
DH Lawrence	1	4	1
Daniel Defoe	2	4
Daphne du Maurier	1	4	1
E. M. Forster	2	4
EL Doctorow	1	4	1
Elizabeth Bowen	2	4
J.R.R. Tolkien	2	4
James Salter	3	4
Joseph Heller	2	4	1
Martin Amis	2	4
Michael Ondaatje	3	4
Patricia Highsmith	1	4	1
Robert Musil	1	4	1
Tove Jansson	2	4
Tsitsi Dangarembga	1	4	1
Victor Hugo	3	4
A. S. Byatt	2	3
Agatha Christie	3	3
Ali Smith	1	3
Ann Patchett	2	3
Annie Ernaux	1	3
Anonymous	2	3
Anthony Powell	1	3
Barbara Kingsolver	2	3
Bohumil Hrabal	2	3
Charlotte Brontë	1	3
Claire Keegan	2	3
D. H. Lawrence	2	3
David Foster Wallace	1	3
Donna Tartt	2	3
Edward P Jones	1	3	1
Elizabeth Gaskell	2	3
Flann O'Brien	2	3
Georges Perec	2	3
Gerald Murnane	2	3
Harper Lee	1	3
J. D. Salinger	1	3
J. L. Carr	1	3
J. M. Coetzee	2	3
Jon Fosse	1	3
Joseph Roth	2	3
Juan Rulfo	1	3	1
Kurt Vonnegut	2	3
LP Hartley	1	3	1
Lewis Carroll	2	3
Mark Twain	1	3
Mervyn Peake	3	3
Murasaki Shikibu	1	3
Natalia Ginzburg	2	3
Olga Tokarczuk	1	3
Percival L. Everett	3	3
Rachel Cusk	2	3
Roberto Bolaño	2	3
Samuel Beckett	3	3
Shirley Jackson	2	3
Susan Cooper	2	3
Susanna Clarke	2	3
Umberto Eco	1	3
Vasily Grossman	1	3	1
William Trevor	3	3
Émile Zola	2	3
Alasdair Gray	1	2
Alexander Pushkin	1	2
Alexandre Dumas	1	2
Alexis Wright	1	2
Alfred Döblin	1	2
Alice Munro	1	2
Alison Bechdel	1	2
Amos Tutuola	1	2
Andrea Levy	1	2
Anne Enright	2	2
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay	1	2
Carson McCullers	1	2
Christopher Priest	2	2
Colette	2	2
Colm Tóibín	1	2
David Mitchell	1	2
Dino Buzzati	1	2
Djuna Barnes	1	2
Douglas Adams	1	2
E. L. Doctorow	1	2
Elfriede Jelinek	1	2
Elizabeth Jane Howard	2	2
Elizabeth Taylor	2	2
Emily St. John Mandel	1	2
Erich Maria Remarque	1	2
Günter Grass	1	2
Halldór Laxness	2	2
Hanif Kureishi	1	2
Hanya Yanagihara	1	2
Haruki Murakami	1	2
Hermann Hesse	1	2
Ian McEwan	2	2
Irvine Welsh	2	2
Irène Némirovsky	1	2
Jack Kerouac	1	2
James Kelman	2	2
Jennifer Egan	1	2
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	2	2
John Bunyan	1	2
John Irving	2	2
John le Carré	2	2
Jonathan Franzen	1	2
Jonathan Swift	1	2
José Saramago	2	2
Julian Barnes	2	2
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	1	2
Kate Atkinson	1	2
Keri Hulme	1	2
Knut Hamsun	1	2
Larry McMurtry	1	2
Lauren Groff	1	2
Lorrie Moore	1	2
Lucy Maud Montgomery	1	2
Madame de La Fayette	1	2
Margaret Drabble	1	2
Marguerite Duras	2	2
Mario Vargas Llosa	2	2
Mercè Rodoreda	2	2
Máirtín Ó Cadhain	1	2
Nathaniel Hawthorne	1	2
Nella Larsen	2	2
Oscar Wilde	1	2
P. G. Wodehouse	2	2
Paul Beatty	1	2
Peter Carey	2	2
Philip Pullman	1	2
R. K. Narayan	1	2
Raymond Chandler	1	2
Richard Yates	2	2
Robert Louis Stevenson	2	2
Rose Tremain	1	2
Russell Hoban	1	2
Sally Rooney	2	2
Samuel Richardson	2	2
Sylvia Plath	1	2
Sylvia Townsend Warner	1	2
Thomas Bernhard	2	2
Thomas Pynchon	1	2
Tim Winton	2	2
Torrey Peters	2	2
Vikram Seth	2	2
Yael van der Wouden	1	2
Yoko Ogawa	1	2
Yukio Mishima	2	2
Adania Shibli	1	1
Ahmadou Kourouma	1	1
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar	1	1
Akhil Sharma	1	1
Akwaeke Emezi	1	1
Alan Burns	1	1
Alan Moore	1	1
Alan Paton	1	1
Alan Warner	1	1
Alberto Moravia	1	1
Aldous Huxley	1	1
Alessandro Manzoni	1	1
Anders Nilsen	1	1
Ann Petry	1	1
Anna Burns	1	1
Anna Kavan	1	1
Anne Brontë	1	1
Annie Proulx	1	1
Antal Szerb	1	1
Antonia Barber	1	1
Armistead Maupin	1	1
Art Spiegelman	1	1
Arthur Conan Doyle	1	1
Audre Lorde	1	1
Barbara Comyns	1	1
Barbara Pym	1	1
Barry Hines	1	1
Becky Chambers	1	1
Ben Okri	1	1
Benedict Kiely	1	1
Benjamín Labatut	1	1
Bernard Malamud	1	1
Bernardine Evaristo	1	1
Beryl Bainbridge	1	1
Bessie Head	1	1
Birgit Vanderbeke	1	1
Breandán Ó hEithir	1	1
Bret Easton Ellis	1	1
Brit Bennett	1	1
Buchi Emecheta	1	1
Caleb Femi	1	1
Cao Xueqin	1	1
Catherine Newman	1	1
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1	1
China Miéville	1	1
Christa Wolf	1	1
Christine Brooke-Rose	1	1
Christos Tsiolkas	1	1
Clarice Lispector	1	1
Claude McKay	1	1
Claudia Rankine	1	1
Colson Whitehead	1	1
Constance Debré	1	1
Daniel Keyes	1	1
Daniel Mason	1	1
Dante Alighieri	1	1
Dashiell Hammett	1	1
David Markson	1	1
Denis Johnson	1	1
Derek Walcott	1	1
Diana Evans	1	1
Diana Wynne Jones	1	1
Dodie Smith	1	1
Donal Ryan	1	1
Dylan Thomas	1	1
E. B. White	1	1
Edgar Allan Poe	1	1
Edmund White	1	1
Edna O'Brien	1	1
Eduardo Galeano	1	1
Edward St Aubyn	1	1
Edward Upward	1	1
Edwidge Danticat	1	1
Eimear McBride	1	1
Eleanor Catton	1	1
Elizabeth Jenkins	1	1
Elizabeth Smart	1	1
Elsa Morante	1	1
Eva Baltasar	1	1
Fernanda Melchor	1	1
Flannery O'Connor	1	1
Frances Hardinge	1	1
Francis Spufford	1	1
Frank Norris	1	1
Fumiko Enchi	1	1
G. V. Desani	1	1
Gabrielle Zevin	1	1
George Saunders	1	1
George du Maurier	1	1
Gertrude Stein	1	1
Ghassan Kanafani	1	1
Gillian Flynn	1	1
Giorgio Bassani	1	1
Giovanni Boccaccio	1	1
Graham Swift	1	1
H. G. Wells	1	1
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	1	1
Heather Fawcett	1	1
Heinrich von Kleist	1	1
Helen Dewitt	1	1
Helen Fielding	1	1
Henry Green	1	1
Henry Williamson	1	1
Hernán Díaz	1	1
Honoré de Balzac	1	1
Ibn Tufayl	1	1
Irmgard Keun	1	1
Isabel Allende	1	1
Italo Svevo	1	1
Itamar Vieira Junior	1	1
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov	1	1
Ivo Andrić	1	1
Ivy Compton-Burnett	1	1
J. G. Farrell	1	1
Jabbour Douaihy	1	1
Jade Sharma	1	1
James Ellroy	1	1
James Hogg	1	1
Jane Bowles	1	1
Jane Gardam	1	1
Janice Galloway	1	1
Javier Cercas	1	1
Javier Marías	1	1
Jean Giono	1	1
Jeffrey Eugenides	1	1
Jen Beagin	1	1
Jenny Erpenbeck	1	1
Jerome K. Jerome	1	1
John Berger	1	1
John Buchan	1	1
John Dos Passos	1	1
John Fowles	1	1
John McGahern	1	1
Josefina Vicens	1	1
Julia Alvarez	1	1
Julio Cortázar	1	1
Kaveh Akbar	1	1
Kawakami Hiromi	1	1
Kenneth Patchen	1	1
Khaled Hosseini	1	1
Kingsley Amis	1	1
Kiran Desai	1	1
Laila Lalami	1	1
Lawrence Durrell	1	1
Leila Aboulela	1	1
Leila Mottley	1	1
Leslie Silko	1	1
Louise Erdrich	1	1
Lucas Rijneveld	1	1
Lucy Ellmann	1	1
Madeline Miller	1	1
Maggie O'Farrell	1	1
Malcolm Lowry	1	1
Malorie Blackman	1	1
Margaret Oliphant	1	1
Marghanita Laski	1	1
Marguerite Yourcenar	1	1
Marian Engel	1	1
Mariana Enriquez	1	1
Mark Z. Danielewski	1	1
Marlon James	1	1
Mathias Enard	1	1
Matthew Gregory Lewis	1	1
Max Porter	1	1
Mia Couto	1	1
Michael Chabon	1	1
Michael Frayn	1	1
Milan Kundera	1	1
Min Jin Lee	1	1
Miriam Toews	1	1
Miroslav Krleža	1	1
Mohsin Hamid	1	1
Nadine Gordimer	1	1
Nancy Mitford	1	1
Nellie Campobello	1	1
Nick Hornby	1	1
Nicola Barker	1	1
Nino Haratischvili	1	1
Norton Juster	1	1
Nuruddin Farah	1	1
Ocean Vuong	1	1
Olga Ravn	1	1
Oliver Goldsmith	1	1
Osamu Dazai	1	1
Oscar Casares	1	1
Pat Barker	1	1
Pat O'Shea	1	1
Patrick Chamoiseau	1	1
Patrick Hamilton	1	1
Patrick O'Brian	1	1
Paul Auster	1	1
Paul Bowles	1	1
Paul Golding	1	1
Paul Murray	1	1
Paulo Coelho	1	1
Peter Høeg	1	1
Primo Levi	1	1
Pu Songling	1	1
R. C. Sherriff	1	1
R. J. Palacio	1	1
Rachel Carson	1	1
Ray Bradbury	1	1
Richard Adams	1	1
Richard Brautigan	1	1
Richard Ford	1	1
Richard Hughes	1	1
Richard McGuire	1	1
Richard Powers	1	1
Richard Wright	1	1
Roald Dahl	1	1
Robert Stone	1	1
Robertson Davies	1	1
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain	1	1
Romain Gary	1	1
Rosemary Tonks	1	1
Rudyard Kipling	1	1
Ruth Ozeki	1	1
S. E. Hinton	1	1
Sadegh Hedayat	1	1
Samuel Selvon	1	1
Sarah Bernstein	1	1
Sarah Moss	1	1
Sarah Orne Jewett	1	1
Sarah Waters	1	1
Selby Wynn Schwartz	1	1
Simin Daneshvar	1	1
Stendhal	1	1
Stephen Crane	1	1
Stephen King	1	1
Sybille Bedford	1	1
Tarjei Vesaas	1	1
Tayeb Salih	1	1
Tom Wolfe	1	1
Truman Capote	1	1
U. R. Anantha Murthy	1	1
Virginie Despentes	1	1
Walker Percy	1	1
Walter Scott	1	1
Wang Xiaobo	1	1
William Gaddis	1	1
William H. Gass	1	1
William Hope Hodgson	1	1
William Maxwell	1	1
William Somerset Maugham	1	1
Wole Soyinka	1	1
Yoko Tawada	1	1
Yuko Tsushima	1	1
Ágota Kristóf	1	1
Álvaro Enrigue	1	1