Top 100 authors
Full ranking · 17,052 grids ·100 results · Page 1 of 2
| # | Credited name | grids | book mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fiodor Dostoïevski5 entries | 1,706 | 1,846 |
| 2 | J. R. R. Tolkien6 entries | 1,515 | 1,607 |
| 3 | John Steinbeck17 entries | 1,267 | 1,312 |
| 4 | Cormac McCarthy14 entries | 1,051 | 1,117 |
| 5 | Jane Austen13 entries | 1,044 | 1,119 |
| 6 | Stephen King64 entries | 854 | 960 |
| 7 | George Orwell15 entries | 825 | 857 |
| 8 | Herman Melville9 entries | 781 | 784 |
| 9 | C. S. Lewis28 entries | 743 | 847 |
| 10 | Charlotte Brontë3 entries | 721 | 727 |
| 11 | Kurt Vonnegut11 entries | 675 | 704 |
| 12 | Donna Tartt3 entries | 668 | 693 |
| 13 | Gabriel García Márquez16 entries | 664 | 678 |
| 14 | Mary Shelley4 entries | 639 | 639 |
| 15 | Albert Camus19 entries | 626 | 646 |
| 16 | Alexandre Dumas9 entries | 624 | 638 |
| 17 | Toni Morrison18 entries | 609 | 639 |
| 18 | William Shakespeare44 entries | 599 | 640 |
| 19 | Virginia Woolf11 entries | 563 | 581 |
| 20 | Franz Kafka24 entries | 546 | 563 |
| 21 | Vladimir Nabokov20 entries | 517 | 545 |
| 22 | J. D. Salinger4 entries | 510 | 515 |
| 23 | Frank Herbert9 entries | 506 | 529 |
| 24 | Thomas Pynchon8 entries | 505 | 540 |
| 25 | Emily Brontë3 entries | 476 | 476 |
| 26 | F. Scott Fitzgerald11 entries | 475 | 477 |
| 27 | James Baldwin13 entries | 475 | 486 |
| 28 | Suzanne Collins9 entries | 472 | 491 |
| 29 | James Joyce6 entries | 469 | 495 |
| 30 | Oscar Wilde10 entries | 464 | 469 |
| 31 | Charles Dickens18 entries | 461 | 475 |
| 32 | Harper Lee3 entries | 449 | 449 |
| 33 | Léon Tolstoï1 entries | 447 | 447 |
| 34 | Haruki Murakami18 entries | 444 | 469 |
| 35 | Kazuo Ishiguro9 entries | 443 | 451 |
| 36 | Madeline Miller3 entries | 422 | 439 |
| 37 | David Foster Wallace13 entries | 420 | 423 |
| 38 | Leo Tolstoy14 entries | 415 | 421 |
| 39 | William Faulkner13 entries | 415 | 431 |
| 40 | Ursula K. Le Guin20 entries | 399 | 420 |
| 41 | Ray Bradbury17 entries | 392 | 397 |
| 42 | Ernest Hemingway25 entries | 384 | 401 |
| 43 | Homer5 entries | 383 | 409 |
| 44 | Louisa May Alcott7 entries | 359 | 359 |
| 45 | Lewis, C. S.13 entries | 353 | 371 |
| 46 | Friedrich Nietzsche26 entries | 352 | 379 |
| 47 | Mikhaïl Boulgakov1 entries | 350 | 350 |
| 48 | Susanna Clarke2 entries | 341 | 345 |
| 49 | Bram Stoker1 entries | 338 | 338 |
| 50 | Roberto Bolaño6 entries | 338 | 343 |
Understanding these figures
We count a grid once for each credited name, even when it includes several of that name’s books. Book mentions count each different work. Exact credited strings remain separate: spelling variants and joint credits are not silently merged into individual authors.
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Catalogue mappings and provisional entries can change after bibliographic corrections.
This is a ranking of recorded credits. Joint names are kept together; unresolved aliases or contributor roles can split or affect counts.