Best 100 Authors

Top 100 authors of all time voted by regular people

       Since this list is fairly new and does not have a lot of votes yet we have chosen to list only the top 65 authors temporarily.  The rest of the list will be added as more votes come in.  So please take a few minutes and go to our TOP TEN AUTHORS SUBMISSION PAGE and vote for your favorite authors of all time.  Thank you.

       Also please remember that the list will change significantly over the next few months as more votes are tallied.  Authors on top of the list now may end up with drastically different positions on later lists.

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1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. William Shakespeare
3. Charles Dickens
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Jane Austen
6. J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. John Steinbeck
9. George Orwell
10. Mark Twain
11. James Joyce
12. Alexandre Dumas
13. J.D. Salinger
14. Franz Kafka
15. Vladimir Nabokov
16. Kurt Vonnegut
17. C.S. Lewis
18. William Faulkner
19. Oscar Wilde
20. F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. Virginia Woolf
22. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23. J.K. Rowling
24. Edgar Allan Poe
25. Victor Hugo
26. Stephen King
27. Marcel Proust
28. George Eliot
29. Albert Camus
30. Joseph Heller
31. Ayn Rand
32. Homer
33. W. Somerset Maugham
34. Salman Rushdie
35. Agatha Christie
36. Anton Chekhov
37. Joseph Conrad
38. Evely Waugh
39. Douglas Adams
40. Honore de Balzac
41. Dr. Seuss
42. Edith Wharton
43. Charlotte Bronte
44. Cormac McCarthy
45. Miguel de Cervantes
46. Ray Bradbury
47. Ian McEwan
48. Anthony Burgess
49. Virgil
50. Phillip Roth
51. Toni Morrison
52. Henry Miller
53. Emily Bronte
54. John Updike
55. Saul Bellows
56. Aldous Huxley
57. Khalid Hosseini
58. H.P. Lovecraft
59. Jodi Picoult
60. Jack London
61. Thomas Mann
62. Graham Greene
63. Thomas Hardy
64. Dante Alighieri
65. Phillip K. Dick

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Best 100 Authors updated 05-05-2009