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Best 100 Authors

Top 100 authors of all time voted by regular people

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           Best 100 Authors is an ongoing online poll where the list is made up entirely of votes from our readers.  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.

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  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Charles Dickens
  3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. Ernest Hemingway
  7. Jane Austen
  8. George Orwell
  9. Mark Twain
  10. John Steinbeck
  11. James Joyce
  12. Alexandre Dumas
  13. C.S. Lewis
  14. Franz Kafka
  15. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. Oscar Wilde
  17. William Faulkner
  18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  19. Kurt Vonnegut
  20. Edgar Allan Poe
  21. Vladimir Nabokov
  22. J.D. Salinger
  23. Robert Louis Stevenson
  24. Victor Hugo
  25. Agatha Christie
  26. Stephen King
  27. Ayn Rand
  28. Charlotte Bronte
  29. Homer
  30. J.K. Rowling
  31. Virginia Woolf
  32. Thomas Hardy
  33. W. Somerset Maugham
  34. Albert Camus
  35. Herman Melville
  36. Joseph Conrad
  37. Anton Chekhov
  38. Jodi Picoult
  39. Paulo Coelho
  40. George Eliot
  41. Marcel Proust
  42. Ray Bradbury
  43. Douglas Adams
  44. Miguel de Cervantes
  45. Jules Verne
  46. Jack London
  47. Harper Lee
  48. Dante Alighieri
  49. Joseph Heller
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle
  51. Henry David Thoreau
  52. Terry Pratchett
  53. John Milton
  54. Khalid Hosseini
  55. Henry Miller
  56. Emily Bronte
  57. Aldous Huxley
  58. Salman Rushdie
  59. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  60. Jack Kerouac
  61. Plato
  62. Dr. Seuss
  63. Roald Dahl
  64. Nicholas Sparks
  65. H.P. Lovecraft
  66. Ian McEwan
  67. Thomas Mann
  68. Isaac Asimov
  69. Honore de Balzac
  70. John Irving
  71. Philip Pullman
  72. John Grisham
  73. Sylvia Plath
  74. Graham Greene
  75. Toni Morrison
  76. Jean Paul Sarte
  77. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  78. Rudyard Kipling
  79. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  80. D. H. Lawrence
  81. Emily Dickinson
  82. Nikolai Gogol
  83. Edith Wharton
  84. Hunter S. Thompson
  85. Margaret Atwood
  86. Evely Waugh
  87. Orson Scott Card
  88. Cormac McCarthy
  89. H. G. Wells
  90. Chuck Palahniuk
  91. Mikhail Bulgakov
  92. Bram Stoker
  93. William Blake
  94. Samuel Beckett
  95. Gustave Flaubert
  96. Jorge Luis Borges
  97. Sidney Sheldon
  98. Phillip Roth
  99. Arthur Miller
  100. Thomas Pynchon

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Best 100 Authors updated 08-16-2010