Zeitgeist Authors

Neil Gaiman (1682), Jane Austen (1674), J. K. Rowling (1581), J. R. R. Tolkien (1557), Terry Pratchett (1331), Stephen King (1107), Douglas Adams (1001), C. S. Lewis (820), Kurt Vonnegut (795), William Shakespeare (737), Haruki Murakami (683), Margaret Atwood (630), Charles Dickens (587), George Orwell (546), Stephenie Meyer (529), Isaac Asimov (526), Neal Stephenson (504), Fyodor Dostoevsky (473), Philip K. Dick (469), John Steinbeck (465), Ursula K. Le Guin (457), Jasper Fforde (454), John Irving (451), George R. R. Martin (445), Jorge Luis Borges (431), Robert A. Heinlein (428), P. G. Wodehouse (422), Agatha Christie (421), Oscar Wilde (416), Vladimir Nabokov (416), Roald Dahl (414), Orson Scott Card (412), Philip Pullman (411), Gabriel García Márquez (409), Chuck Palahniuk (408), Ray Bradbury (406), H. P. Lovecraft (402), Bill Bryson (399), David Sedaris (390), Mark Twain (383), Edgar Allan Poe (379), Franz Kafka (376), Umberto Eco (356), Virginia Woolf (355), Ernest Hemingway (341), Charlotte Brontë (338), William Gibson (333), Lois McMaster Bujold (333), Anne McCaffrey (330), Cormac McCarthy (324) — show more

Trish New (4.88/41/32), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.8/44/21), Vardis Fisher (4.79/26/10), Brian Selznick (4.78/30/30), Walt Kelly (4.75/195/39), Janet Arnold (4.75/89/43), Toni Weschler (4.73/32/32), Masaaki Hatsumi (4.73/28/12), Margaret Edson (4.7/27/26), Quino (4.7/43/23), Walter Bauer (4.69/24/23), Taro Gomi (4.65/23/21), Alexander Schmemann (4.65/30/22), Harpo Marx (4.65/20/20), Immaculee Ilibagiza (4.65/24/24), Elizabeth Shown Mills (4.64/38/31), Luis Royo (4.63/44/14), Frank H. Netter (4.63/20/12), Bill Watterson (4.62/2134/653), Harold Abelson (4.62/58/52), Aryeh Kaplan (4.62/21/13), David Allen Sibley (4.62/116/72), Scott Rice (4.6/24/11), Mark Steyn (4.6/30/26), Akira Kurosawa (4.6/21/16), Thomas A. Limoncelli (4.6/21/18), Michael Light (4.59/32/29), N. A. M. Rodger (4.59/33/26), Patrick Johnstone (4.58/30/27), Heinrich Heine (4.58/43/26), Harold McGee (4.58/78/69), Stanley Kunitz (4.58/20/15), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (4.57/47/15), Robert Bringhurst (4.57/79/75), Alison Croggon (4.56/63/33), Jorge Cham (4.56/24/16), George Herriman (4.55/120/33), Laurence Rees (4.55/21/20), Peter Menzel (4.55/44/40), Yoshitaka Amano (4.55/22/20), Martin Luther King (4.55/22/21), Eiichiro Oda (4.54/71/11), Naoki Urasawa (4.54/49/15), Edward Whittemore (4.54/26/14), Douglas J. Moo (4.53/31/26), Jim Borgman (4.53/32/14), Kate Walker (4.53/32/10), Stephen Cosgrove (4.53/173/36), Jane Hirshfield (4.53/20/11), John Aubrey (4.52/21/13) — show more

Erich von Daniken (1.96/50/37), Kathy Lette (2.28/41/24), Mel Gilden (2.3/35/23), Sharon Green (2.33/87/33), Herbert Spencer Zim (2.5/22/14), Rose Estes (2.53/36/14), Emma Tennant (2.55/32/30), R.A. Montgomery (2.59/22/14), Frédéric Beigbeder (2.6/55/29), Kaavya Viswanathan (2.6/24/24), Edward Packard (2.61/23/13), Harold Robbins (2.64/43/24), Bonnie Bryant (2.68/28/13), Bill Gates (2.68/46/44), Stewart Home (2.69/24/18), Rob Macgregor (2.69/24/15), John Norman (2.69/77/30), Jan Wolkers (2.7/25/11), Laura Lee Hope (2.7/152/23), Brad Strickland (2.72/29/13), Candace Bushnell (2.72/247/177), Catherine Millet (2.73/43/43), Jean Rabe (2.75/50/30), Simon (2.75/30/28), Mark Winegardner (2.75/22/22), Andrew J. Offutt (2.76/21/15), Rexanne Becnel (2.77/32/15), Isobel Bird (2.77/39/12), Guy N. Smith (2.77/39/14), Arnon Grunberg (2.78/29/23), Kitty Kelley (2.78/45/37), Karen Wallace (2.78/25/15), Anton Szandor Lavey (2.78/58/44), William A. Katz (2.79/24/18), John Whitman (2.79/29/12), Gary Troup (2.8/32/32), Ronald Kessler (2.8/23/22), Nigel Robinson (2.81/24/12), Rosemary Rogers (2.83/62/21), G. P. Taylor (2.83/39/30), Tina Daniell (2.83/24/16), Hikaru Hayashi (2.83/21/12), Glen A. Larson (2.85/23/14), Ian Sansom (2.85/30/28), Hitomi Kanehara (2.85/20/19), Tamara Thorne (2.85/34/11), Joseph Smith (2.86/35/29), Barbara Cartland (2.86/54/16), Immanuel Velikovsky (2.86/29/19), Chetan Bhagat (2.86/44/37) — show more

Joseph Smith (1.8), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1.41), Michael J. Behe (1.4), L. Ron Hubbard (1.37), Kenneth Robeson (1.33), Simon (1.32), Andrea Dworkin (1.31), Anton Szandor Lavey (1.31), Adolf Hitler (1.31), Erich von Daniken (1.3), Samuel Richardson (1.3), Michael R. Phillips (1.29), Donald Tyson (1.28), Marlo Morgan (1.27), Roy Lewis (1.27), Kathy Acker (1.26), Bruce Wilkinson (1.26), James Redfield (1.26), Lori Handeland (1.25), Lauren Baratz-Logsted (1.25), Georges Simenon (1.25), Rudolph W. Giuliani (1.25), Bill Pronzini (1.25), Julia Kristeva (1.25), S. P. Somtow (1.25), Rick Warren (1.24), Alice Randall (1.24), Ted Andrews (1.24), Silver RavenWolf (1.23), Pamela Anderson (1.23), Alexandra Ripley (1.23), Charles Berlitz (1.22), Honoré de Balzac (1.22), John Norman (1.21), Alexandria Ripley (1.21), Chetan Bhagat (1.21), Sean Hannity (1.21), Beatrice Sparks (1.21), Robert James Waller (1.21), Spencer Johnson (1.21), Bill O'Reilly (1.21), Melissa P. (1.21), Edain McCoy (1.2), L. A. Banks (1.2), Jerry B. Jenkins (1.2), Dave Hunt (1.2), Harvard Lampoon (1.2), Nigel Williams (1.2), Franz Wisner (1.19), Jorie Graham (1.19) — show more

Janet Arnold (0.59), Vogue Knitting Magazine Editors (0.6), Harold Abelson (0.61), Toni Weschler (0.62), Stephan Pastis (0.62), George Herriman (0.63), Matsuri Akino (0.63), Banksy (0.64), N. A. M. Rodger (0.64), Peter Norvig (0.66), Adam Hochschild (0.66), Martin Meredith (0.66), David Allen Sibley (0.66), Samantha Power (0.67), B. Kliban (0.67), Walt Kelly (0.67), David Simon (0.67), William Mcneill (0.67), Reza Aslan (0.67), Paul Joannides (0.67), Harold McGee (0.67), Jim Lovell (0.68), Bill Watterson (0.68), Isa Chandra Moskowitz (0.68), John Howard Yoder (0.68), Jon Savage (0.68), Suzanne Collins (0.69), Charlotte Fiell (0.69), Richard J. Evans (0.69), Bob Harris (0.7), Kiyohiko Azuma (0.7), Peter Menzel (0.7), Miroslav Volf (0.7), Gordon W. Prange (0.7), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (0.7), Jane Kenyon (0.7), Ben Edlund (0.7), Wil Wheaton (0.71), Leigh Brackett (0.71), Elizabeth Shown Mills (0.71), W. Richard Stevens (0.71), Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (0.71), Vito Russo (0.71), Joseph Telushkin (0.71), Michael Light (0.71), Diana Preston (0.71), Robert Bringhurst (0.71), Steve Coll (0.71), Philip Gourevitch (0.71), Chalmers Johnson (0.71) — show more

J. K. Rowling (87,384), Stephen King (68,716), Terry Pratchett (67,644), Neil Gaiman (56,456), J. R. R. Tolkien (50,700), C. S. Lewis (49,535), William Shakespeare (36,663), Anne McCaffrey (28,256), Orson Scott Card (27,691), Agatha Christie (25,244), Charles Dickens (24,833), Anne Rice (24,161), Robert A. Heinlein (23,837), Dan Brown (23,656), Kurt Vonnegut (23,005), Mercedes Lackey (22,792), George Orwell (22,238), John Grisham (20,808), Nora Roberts (19,449), Robert Jordan (18,845), John Steinbeck (18,460), Laurell K. Hamilton (18,130), Neal Stephenson (17,841), Lemony Snicket (17,367), David Eddings (17,166), Michael Crichton (17,058), Ray Bradbury (16,502), Ernest Hemingway (16,408), Roald Dahl (16,012), Frank Herbert (15,752), Philip Pullman (15,699), Janet Evanovich (15,574), Philip K. Dick (15,548), J.D. Salinger (15,422), Mark Twain (14,974), Bill Bryson (14,794), James Patterson (14,724), William Gibson (14,664), Lucy Maud Montgomery (14,563), Dean Koontz (14,386), Madeleine L'Engle (14,366), Haruki Murakami (14,018), John Irving (13,949), Tom Clancy (13,890), Umberto Eco (13,771), Gabriel García Márquez (13,746), Marion Zimmer Bradley (13,656), Virginia Woolf (13,480), Chuck Palahniuk (13,264), F. Scott Fitzgerald (13,185), Tamora Pierce (13,046), David Sedaris (12,849), James Joyce (12,521), Arthur C. Clarke (12,210), Various (12,006), Larry Niven (11,783), William Faulkner (11,642), Albert Camus (11,468), Nick Hornby (11,346), Vladimir Nabokov (11,111), Bill Watterson (10,999), George R. R. Martin (10,962), Aldous Huxley (10,945), Alan Moore (10,586), Homer (10,413), Patricia Cornwell (10,314), Ayn Rand (10,029), C. J. Cherryh (9,849), Franz Kafka (9,849), Patrick O'Brian (9,812), Ursula K. Le Guin (9,781), Diana Wynne Jones (9,734), Jack Kerouac (9,724), Margaret Weis (9,548), Jasper Fforde (9,543) — show more

Kenneth Robeson (22.85), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (15.79), Clamp (12.73), Nick Carter (12.59), Maxwell Grant (12.25), Don Pendleton (11.64), Francine Pascal (11.52), Dana Fuller Ross (11.46), Yoko Kamio (11.08), Nobuhiro Watsuki (10.65), Mercedes Lackey (10.37), Ann M. Martin (10.18), Terry Pratchett (10.06), Rex Stout (10.06), Nora Roberts (10.05), Yumi Tamura (9.91), Louis L'Amour (9.78), Radclyffe (9.7), Georgette Heyer (9.52), Takeshi Konomi (9.27), Saki Hiwatari (9.22), Terrance Dicks (9.21), Anne McCaffrey (9.15), Rumiko Takahashi (9.02), Fuyumi Soryo (8.98), Warren Murphy (8.96), Diana Palmer (8.7), Masami Tsuda (8.65), Tamora Pierce (8.61), Christine Feehan (8.55), Karin Kallmaker (8.45), Cate Tiernan (8.42), Naoko Takeuchi (8.38), Harold Foster (8.33), J. D. Robb (8.31), Kathryn Kenny (8.28), D. E. Stevenson (8.24), Kazuo Koike (8.22), Ordnance Survey (8.22), David Eddings (8.15), Laurell K. Hamilton (8.06), Tohru Fujisawa (8), Judal (7.96), Alexander Kent (7.89), Franklin W. Dixon (7.88), Kaori Yuki (7.85), L.J. Smith (7.85), Natsuki Takaya (7.84), Lois Gladys Leppard (7.83), David Weber (7.8) — show more