Top 100 authors
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| # | Credited name | grids | book mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | George R. R. Martin13 entries | 337 | 357 |
| 52 | Victor Hugo11 entries | 333 | 338 |
| 53 | Elena Ferrante14 entries | 325 | 342 |
| 54 | Sally Rooney5 entries | 320 | 340 |
| 55 | Don DeLillo13 entries | 315 | 323 |
| 56 | Larry McMurtry8 entries | 312 | 313 |
| 57 | John Williams4 entries | 307 | 315 |
| 58 | J. K. Rowling12 entries | 299 | 319 |
| 59 | Philip K. Dick27 entries | 298 | 312 |
| 60 | Dante Alighieri12 entries | 297 | 297 |
| 61 | Italo Calvino19 entries | 289 | 295 |
| 62 | Joan Didion15 entries | 279 | 287 |
| 63 | Clarice Lispector15 entries | 278 | 302 |
| 64 | Aldous Huxley12 entries | 277 | 280 |
| 65 | Yukio Mishima15 entries | 276 | 295 |
| 66 | Hermann Hesse20 entries | 275 | 284 |
| 67 | Plato40 entries | 273 | 302 |
| 68 | Augustine of Hippo7 entries | 268 | 268 |
| 69 | Joseph Heller5 entries | 264 | 266 |
| 70 | Jorge Luis Borges20 entries | 263 | 267 |
| 71 | Umberto Eco12 entries | 263 | 272 |
| 72 | Sylvia Plath9 entries | 261 | 262 |
| 73 | Taylor Jenkins Reid8 entries | 255 | 272 |
| 74 | Rick Riordan19 entries | 243 | 251 |
| 75 | Agatha Christie36 entries | 234 | 237 |
| 76 | R. F. Kuang11 entries | 234 | 256 |
| 77 | Andy Weir2 entries | 227 | 236 |
| 78 | José Saramago24 entries | 227 | 237 |
| 79 | Shirley Jackson5 entries | 227 | 232 |
| 80 | George Eliot6 entries | 225 | 228 |
| 81 | Daphne du Maurier6 entries | 223 | 225 |
| 82 | Douglas Adams6 entries | 223 | 223 |
| 83 | Bret Easton Ellis11 entries | 218 | 223 |
| 84 | Khaled Hosseini6 entries | 216 | 236 |
| 85 | Karl Marx24 entries | 215 | 245 |
| 86 | Mark Z. Danielewski3 entries | 210 | 210 |
| 87 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry4 entries | 208 | 208 |
| 88 | Markus Zusak2 entries | 205 | 205 |
| 89 | Leigh Bardugo8 entries | 202 | 216 |
| 90 | Lucy Maud Montgomery5 entries | 198 | 198 |
| 91 | Thomas Mann11 entries | 198 | 203 |
| 92 | Jacqueline Harpman3 entries | 197 | 197 |
| 93 | John Kennedy Toole1 entries | 195 | 195 |
| 94 | Hanya Yanagihara3 entries | 193 | 193 |
| 95 | Fredrik Backman11 entries | 188 | 201 |
| 96 | Margaret Atwood10 entries | 188 | 188 |
| 97 | Orson Scott Card9 entries | 186 | 191 |
| 98 | Milan Kundera8 entries | 185 | 186 |
| 99 | Jack Kerouac15 entries | 180 | 183 |
| 100 | V. E. Schwab7 entries | 175 | 189 |
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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