Zeitgeist Authors 25 top-favorited authors
Neil Gaiman (958), J.R.R. Tolkien (950), Jane Austen (947), J.K. Rowling (907), Terry Pratchett (763), Douglas Adams (583), Stephen King (559), C. S. Lewis (485), Kurt Vonnegut (474), William Shakespeare (471), Haruki Murakami (392), Margaret Atwood (377), Charles Dickens (356), Neal Stephenson (299), Isaac Asimov (297), George Orwell (296), Jasper Fforde (293), Ursula K. Le Guin (286), John Irving (279), Philip Pullman (269), Philip K. Dick (265), P.G. Wodehouse (264), John Steinbeck (262), Jorge Luis Borges (260), George R.R. Martin (254), Robert A. Heinlein (253), Bill Bryson (252), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (251), Orson Scott Card (250), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (249), H. P. Lovecraft (246), Oscar Wilde (245), Vladimir Nabokov (243), Roald Dahl (239), Agatha Christie (237), Ray Bradbury (236), Chuck Palahniuk (229), Mark Twain (219), Lois McMaster Bujold (219), Edgar Allan POE (214), Umberto Eco (211), David Sedaris (210), Charlotte Bronte (210), Virginia Woolf (207), William Gibson (207), Barbara Kingsolver (205), Madeleine L'Engle (193), Diana Wynne Jones (191), Anne McCaffrey (190), L.M. Montgomery (189) — sýna meira 50 top-rated authors
Authors with at least 20 ratings and 10 raters (average/ratings/raters).
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), Kate Walker (4.53/32/10), Jim Borgman (4.53/32/14), Stephen Cosgrove (4.53/173/36), Jane Hirshfield (4.53/20/11), John Aubrey (4.52/21/13) — sýna meira 50 lowest-rated authorsErich 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) — sýna meira 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. Joseph Smith (1.84), L. Ron Hubbard (1.47), L. A. Banks (1.41), Georges Simenon (1.4), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1.38), Kenneth Robeson (1.38), Anton Szandor Lavey (1.36), Simon (1.31), David Horowitz (1.31), Andrea Dworkin (1.3), John Norman (1.3), Honoré de Balzac (1.29), Michael R. Phillips (1.29), Charles Berlitz (1.29), Bruce Wilkinson (1.28), Marcel Pagnol (1.28), Vicki Lewis Thompson (1.28), Linda Berdoll (1.27), Michael J. Behe (1.27), Michael Drosnin (1.26), James Redfield (1.26), Howard Tomb (1.25), Chetan Bhagat (1.25), Rick Warren (1.25), Donald Tyson (1.25), Julia Kristeva (1.25), Sharon Green (1.25), Raymond Buckland (1.25), Christian Jacq (1.24), Eric Idle (1.24), Samuel Richardson (1.24), George Sand (1.24), August Derleth (1.23), Robert C. Atkins (1.23), Pamela Anderson (1.23), Oscar Hijuelos (1.23), Beatrice Sparks (1.23), Robert James Waller (1.22), Michael Turner (1.22), B. F. Skinner (1.22), Gregory A. Boyd (1.22), Adolf Hitler (1.22), Peter Handke (1.22), Bertrice Small (1.22), Rudolph W. Giuliani (1.22), Gavin Menzies (1.22), Jorie Graham (1.22), Edward Lee (1.21), Silver RavenWolf (1.21), Doreen Virtue (1.21) — sýna meira 50 uncontroversial authors
The least divergent star ratings. Must have 50 raters. Margaret Edson (0.51), Harold Abelson (0.54), N. A. M. Rodger (0.55), Martin Meredith (0.57), David Allen Sibley (0.59), Vogue Knitting Magazine Editors (0.6), George Herriman (0.61), Vito Russo (0.62), Banksy (0.62), Matsuri Akino (0.62), Janet Arnold (0.62), Isa Chandra Moskowitz (0.62), John Sutherland (0.62), Patrick Smith (0.62), Jim Trelease (0.62), Jason Lutes (0.63), Bill Watterson (0.64), Michael Light (0.64), John Howard Yoder (0.64), Peter Menzel (0.65), Samantha Power (0.65), Jon Savage (0.65), Toni Weschler (0.65), David Simon (0.66), Paul Joannides (0.66), Richard Baxter (0.66), Scot McKnight (0.66), Ted Naifeh (0.66), Elizabeth Shown Mills (0.66), Dan Cederholm (0.66), Tom Tomorrow (0.66), Richard Ellmann (0.67), William Mcneill (0.67), Diana Preston (0.67), B. Kliban (0.67), Philip Gourevitch (0.67), Peter Hessler (0.67), Charlotte Fiell (0.67), Jean-Dominique Bauby (0.67), Peter Norvig (0.67), Stephan Pastis (0.67), Harold McGee (0.67), James Randi (0.67), Scott Lynch (0.67), Joe Sacco (0.67), Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (0.67), Quentin Crisp (0.68), Mark Dever (0.68), Armand Marie Leroi (0.68), David Bevington (0.68) — sýna meira
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By number of copies
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), L.M. 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 Garcia Marquez (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) — sýna meira 50 "completist" authors
Average number of books in a collection, if there's one. Anne McCaffreyAt the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005. Photo by Szymon Sokół. (added by librarianna)  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) — sýna meira
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