Zeitgeist Authors 25 top-favorited authors
J. K. Rowling (2734), Jane Austen (2676), J. R. R. Tolkien (2608), Neil Gaiman (2575), Terry Pratchett (2093), Stephen King (1936), Douglas Adams (1475), C. S. Lewis (1339), Kurt Vonnegut (1288), Haruki Murakami (1194), William Shakespeare (1133), Margaret Atwood (1032), Fyodor Dostoevsky (997), George Orwell (904), Isaac Asimov (873), George R. R. Martin (848), Stephenie Meyer (834), John Steinbeck (808), Charles Dickens (755), Neal Stephenson (744), Philip K. Dick (742), Agatha Christie (733), Ursula K. Le Guin (723), Oscar Wilde (678), Edgar Allan Poe (669), John Irving (667), Jasper Fforde (667), Ray Bradbury (667), Robert A. Heinlein (660), Roald Dahl (656), Chuck Palahniuk (652), Orson Scott Card (648), Jorge Luis Borges (644), Gabriel García Márquez (636), Bill Bryson (635), P. G. Wodehouse (634), Vladimir Nabokov (634), Ernest Hemingway (622), Mark Twain (612), Cormac McCarthy (602), Franz Kafka (602), David Sedaris (588), H. P. Lovecraft (580), Arthur Conan Doyle (578), Anne Rice (576), Virginia Woolf (573), Charlotte Brontë (566), Charlaine Harris (565), Philip Pullman (558), Diana Gabaldon (551) — show more 50 top-rated authors
Authors rated by at least 50 members (average/ratings/raters).
The Lockman Foundation (5/7/112), Don Wood (5/1/126), AA.VV. (5/2/84), Vonda N. McIntyre (5/1/56), Richard Rodriguez (5/1/90), Arnold Bennett (5/2/228), Henry Cole (5/1/70), Marion Rombauer Becker (5/1/382), Anonymous (5/2/547), Tom McArthur (5/1/63), Ian Jack (5/1/131), The Kyoto Costume Institute (4.76/78/73), Luigi Serafini (4.76/60/54), Janet Arnold (4.74/276/115), William M. Gaines (4.74/367/51), Crossway Bibles (4.72/161/224), William Little (4.68/19/76), Arthur G. Bennett (4.68/146/138), Ollie Johnston (4.67/76/65), David Lynch (4.67/3/190), Jonathan Larson (4.65/62/50), Steve Purcell (4.64/66/52), Don Rosa (4.64/354/115), James C. Christensen (4.63/65/60), Harold Abelson (4.63/197/184), Jeff Brumbeau (4.61/74/58), Ki Longfellow (4.61/228/169), Tom Tierney (4.6/574/74), Bill Watterson (4.59/8355/2370), Carla Emery (4.59/85/82), Georg Friedrich Händel (4.59/186/59), Richard Williams (4.59/52/50), Randall Munroe (4.58/97/66), W. Richard Stevens (4.57/254/153), Johann Sebastian Bach (4.57/308/98), Hervé Tullet (4.56/137/69), Harold McGee (4.55/370/312), Menena Cottin (4.55/74/51), Bryan A. Garner (4.55/120/93), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.54/245/86), Robert A. Caro (4.54/815/362), Henci Goer (4.54/74/68), Eberhard Nestle (4.54/180/174), David Allen Sibley (4.54/397/238), Alice McLerran (4.53/92/71), Peter Menzel (4.53/257/196), Peter Jackson (4.53/203/86), Walt Kelly (4.52/542/96), Jane Sowerby (4.52/164/163), Walter J. Ciszek (4.52/25/52) — show more 50 lowest-rated authorsBill Jemas (0.79/7/113), Barbara Pease (2/1/109), Christopher Ransom (2.07/101/83), Randy Davila (2.16/122/121), Hal Lindsey (2.33/137/82), Jessica Cutler (2.41/53/50), Michael Gerber (2.53/188/144), Nancy Balbirer (2.54/62/61), John B. Olson (2.54/204/193), Emma Tennant (2.57/178/139), Simon Cox (2.59/81/69), Melissa P. (2.6/179/161), Phoenix Desmond (2.62/61/57), Ellen Fein (2.63/70/51), James Bradley (2.64/114/106), Simon (2.67/160/118), Kaavya Viswanathan (2.68/84/80), Andrew Keen (2.69/137/138), Catherine Millet (2.7/187/166), Charlotte Roche (2.72/283/249), Cook Coleridge (2.72/56/53), Jacquelyn Cook (2.73/98/84), Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (2.74/234/97), Theresa Schwegel (2.74/77/66), Erich von Däniken (2.74/476/283), Jessica Adams (2.75/108/80), Kevin Trudeau (2.76/92/76), Phil Hellmuth (2.76/58/54), Heleen van Royen (2.77/170/107), Barbara Cartland (2.79/964/97), Gustavus Hindman Miller (2.79/69/68), Frank Brennan (2.79/104/93), Michael Drosnin (2.82/135/110), Rachel Johnson (2.82/71/59), Philip Prowse (2.83/303/237), Noah Charney (2.83/138/119), Candace Bushnell (2.83/1502/1003), Claude Izner (2.84/187/138), Xaviera Hollander (2.84/73/50), Lydia Adamson (2.85/136/51), Amy Sterling Casil (2.85/60/53), Sue Leather (2.85/536/249), Nostradamus (2.85/71/67), Adolf Hitler (2.85/230/192), Tracy Quan (2.85/117/90), Susanna Rowson (2.85/62/54), Maureen Lindley (2.86/78/71), Luís M. Rocha (2.86/44/55), Johanna Skibsrud (2.87/99/80), Bill Gates (2.87/183/167) — show more 50 authors people can't agree on
Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—how much they differ from the average. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (1.99), Joseph Smith (1.74), Mrs. Henry Wood (1.49), Sharon Lathan (1.44), Hal Lindsey (1.42), Michael J. Behe (1.4), Adolf Hitler (1.39), Lois H. Gresh (1.38), John Maynard Keynes (1.38), L. Ron Hubbard (1.38), Kevin Trudeau (1.37), Ken Ham (1.36), Allen Carr (1.36), Jessica Cutler (1.35), Nina Malkin (1.35), Rhonda Byrne (1.35), Robert Newcomb (1.35), David Icke (1.34), James L. Rubart (1.34), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1.33), William P. Young (1.33), Debi Pearl (1.33), Omar Tyree (1.33), John G. Miller (1.32), Federico Moccia (1.32), Richard Abanes (1.32), Jason Elam (1.32), Kenneth N. Taylor (1.32), E. L. James (1.31), Honor Books (1.31), Lobsang Rampa (1.31), Konstantinos (1.31), Titania Hardie (1.31), Neil T. Anderson (1.31), Miley Cyrus (1.31), Andrea Dworkin (1.3), Gary Ezzo (1.29), Immanuel Velikovsky (1.29), Tucker Max (1.29), Mao Zedong (1.29), Margaret J Wheatley (1.29), Nicole Baart (1.29), Hilary Thayer Hamann (1.29), Anton Szandor LaVey (1.29), Lillian Too (1.28), Jennifer Stevenson (1.28), Daria Snadowsky (1.28), Bruce Wilkinson (1.28), Erich von Däniken (1.28), Sean Covey (1.28) — show more 50 uncontroversial authors
The least divergent star ratings. Must have 50 raters. Halima BashirPresident George W. Bush meets with Darfur Human Rights Activist Dr. Halima Bashir in the Oval Office. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
(georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov) (added by )  Rudolf Kittel (0.25), The Kyoto Costume Institute (0.47), Edward Moore Kennedy (0.5), Janet Arnold (0.56), Rowan Jacobsen (0.56), Barbara Demick (0.57), Menena Cottin (0.57), Steve Purcell (0.58), Richard Williams (0.59), Hannah Berry (0.59), Craig L. Symonds (0.6), Bill Thomson (0.6), Stephen Dedman (0.6), Jill Wolfson (0.6), William M. Gaines (0.61), Don Rosa (0.61), Josh Neufeld (0.61), Kaja Foglio (0.61), Lars Svensson (0.62), Rosy Thornton (0.62), Tom Siddell (0.62), Luigi Serafini (0.62), Sarah Bakewell (0.62), Izzeldin Abuelaish (0.62), Halima Bashir (0.63), Kevin Boyle (0.63), Paul F. Boller (0.63), Jane Sowerby (0.64), Steven Zaloga (0.64), David Allen Sibley (0.64), Ann Weisgarber (0.64), Jack Lynch (0.64), Hervé Tullet (0.64), Kadir Nelson (0.64), Mark Ovenden (0.64), Michael W. Kauffman (0.64), Rose George (0.64), Kate Beaton (0.64), Lise Eliot (0.64), Paul A. Offit (0.64), Douglas A. Blackmon (0.64), Jacob Baal-Teshuva (0.65), Randall Munroe (0.65), Margi Preus (0.65), Peter Parnell (0.65), Harold McGee (0.65), Jonathan Larson (0.65), Guillaume de Laubier (0.65), Ellen Bryson (0.65), Bill Barnes (0.65) — show more
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Authors who LibraryThing (complete list)Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, Don Maitz, Sandra Brown, David Brin, Laurie R. King, John Green, Jude Deveraux, Diane Duane, Ann Brashares, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jon Scieszka, Brandon Sanderson, James Rollins, Naomi Novik, Lisa See, Katie MacAlister, Andrew Gross, Janny Wurts, Dan Chaon, Chris Bohjalian, Nancy Holder, Elizabeth Bear, Melissa Marr, Jo Beverley, Tite Kubo, Sharon Kay Penman, Edward R. Tufte, Susan Wittig Albert, Patrick Rothfuss, Susan Mallery, Adriana Trigiani, Alan Furst, Susan Wiggs, Elisabeth Waters, Matthew Pearl, Lynn Viehl, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Chris Regan, Randy Alcorn, Sharon Lee, Zachary Sholem Berger, Sarah Addison Allen, James Dashner, Neal Asher, Andrew Vachss, Sabrina Jeffries, Chitra Divakaruni, C. E. Murphy, Cate Dermody — see the full list.
By number of copies
J. K. Rowling (484,016), Stephen King (352,313), Terry Pratchett (282,847), J. R. R. Tolkien (230,049), C. S. Lewis (214,750), Neil Gaiman (213,594), William Shakespeare (189,742), Nora Roberts (178,987), Agatha Christie (165,385), Jane Austen (150,410), Stephenie Meyer (144,609), James Patterson (143,035), Isaac Asimov (142,072), Charles Dickens (134,392), John Grisham (125,808), Anne McCaffrey (120,331), Dan Brown (117,773), Orson Scott Card (117,613), Janet Evanovich (114,648), Kurt Vonnegut (111,698), Anne Rice (109,431), Douglas Adams (107,312), Dean Koontz (105,251), George Orwell (104,252), Robert A. Heinlein (102,265), Mercedes Lackey (100,137), John Steinbeck (99,428), Roald Dahl (98,154), Dr. Seuss (97,196), Laurell K. Hamilton (92,622), Charlaine Harris (91,679), Margaret Atwood (88,735), Anonymous (87,839), Robert Jordan (87,119), Mark Twain (85,557), Michael Crichton (85,023), Piers Anthony (83,938), Ernest Hemingway (83,239), Fyodor Dostoevsky (80,849), Lemony Snicket (80,452), George R. R. Martin (79,506), Philip Pullman (77,956), Haruki Murakami (77,630), Suzanne Collins (76,351), Ray Bradbury (76,343), Gabriel García Márquez (75,087), David Eddings (72,370), Bill Bryson (71,432), Tom Clancy (70,651), Jodi Picoult (70,430), Philip K. Dick (70,141), Ursula K. Le Guin (69,734), Patricia Cornwell (68,780), Mary Pope Osborne (67,440), Frank Herbert (67,164), J. D. Salinger (67,037), F. Scott Fitzgerald (66,922), Jim Butcher (66,221), Tamora Pierce (65,445), L. M. Montgomery (65,246), Neal Stephenson (65,223), Arthur C. Clarke (65,108), John Irving (62,513), Chuck Palahniuk (62,511), Arthur Conan Doyle (61,008), Marion Zimmer Bradley (60,836), Alexander McCall Smith (60,626), Umberto Eco (60,532), Madeleine L'Engle (60,519), Carolyn Keene (59,085), Stieg Larsson (58,545), Rick Riordan (56,843), Meg Cabot (56,535), Leo Tolstoy (56,146), William Gibson (56,026) — show more 50 "completist" authors
Average number of books in a collection, if there's one.
Willy Vandersteen (27.04), John Westerdale Bowker (21.82), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (18.98), E. L. James (16.64), Robert Charles Wilson (15.99), Kenneth Robeson (15.32), J. M. Snyder (15.11), Karen Thompson Walker (14.63), Andrew Grey (13.7), Jacques Martin (13.5), Perry Rhodan (12.99), Stephani Hecht (12.96), Yumi Tamura (12.8), Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (12.72), Annette Smith (12.7), Merian (12.64), CLAMP (12.37), Margit Sandemo (12.3), Saki Hiwatari (12.11), Nora Roberts (11.53), Carol Lynne (11.39), Tsukasa Hojo (11.35), Chie Shinohara (11.03), Yoko Kamio (10.98), Havank (10.92), Jean Graton (10.82), Mercedes Lackey (10.82), Robert Berkow (10.82), Jeffrey Lord (10.53), Rumiko Takahashi (10.48), Society for American Baseball Research (10.16), Kim Dare (10.15), Eiichiro Oda (10.04), Roger Leloup (10.04), Ordnance Survey (10.02), James Axler (9.96), Maurice de Bévère (9.92), Tabor Evans (9.87), Sean Michael (9.86), Beverley Randell (9.84), J. T. Edson (9.84), Riichiro Inagaki (9.84), Gosho Aoyama (9.82), Michael Schaper (9.8), Terry Pratchett (9.79), Kentaro Miura (9.78), Christopher P. Andersen (9.69), San-Antonio (9.69), Jamie McGuire (9.65), Naoki Urasawa (9.62) — show more
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