Zeitgeist Authors 25 top-favorited authors
Neil Gaiman (1710), Jane Austen (1707), J. K. Rowling (1616), J. R. R. Tolkien (1588), Terry Pratchett (1352), Stephen King (1137), Douglas Adams (1015), C. S. Lewis (830), Kurt Vonnegut (820), William Shakespeare (742), Haruki Murakami (698), Margaret Atwood (644), Charles Dickens (606), George Orwell (560), Stephenie Meyer (540), Isaac Asimov (537), Neal Stephenson (508), John Steinbeck (476), Philip K. Dick (475), Fyodor Dostoevsky (473), Ursula K. Le Guin (465), Jasper Fforde (464), John Irving (460), George R. R. Martin (457), Robert A. Heinlein (438), Jorge Luis Borges (438), Agatha Christie (436), Oscar Wilde (431), P.G. Wodehouse (426), Chuck Palahniuk (423), Vladimir Nabokov (420), Gabriel García Márquez (420), Roald Dahl (420), Orson Scott Card (419), Philip Pullman (414), Ray Bradbury (413), Bill Bryson (411), H. P. Lovecraft (409), David Sedaris (399), Mark Twain (390), Edgar Allan Poe (385), Franz Kafka (383), Umberto Eco (362), Virginia Woolf (361), Ernest Hemingway (352), Charlotte Brontë (346), Lois McMaster Bujold (340), William Gibson (337), Cormac McCarthy (335), Anne McCaffrey (333) — dangos rhagor 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), Thomas A. Limoncelli (4.6/21/18), Akira Kurosawa (4.6/21/16), 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) — dangos rhagor 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) — dangos rhagor 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 (1.79), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1.4), Michael J. Behe (1.39), L. Ron Hubbard (1.36), Kenneth Robeson (1.33), Anton Szandor Lavey (1.33), Simon (1.31), Andrea Dworkin (1.31), Michael R. Phillips (1.31), Adolf Hitler (1.3), Samuel Richardson (1.3), Erich von Daniken (1.28), Marlo Morgan (1.27), Donald Tyson (1.27), Bruce Wilkinson (1.26), Roy Lewis (1.26), James Redfield (1.26), Kathy Acker (1.25), Lori Handeland (1.25), Rudolph W. Giuliani (1.25), Rick Warren (1.25), Bill Pronzini (1.25), S. P. Somtow (1.25), Georges Simenon (1.24), Alexandra Ripley (1.24), Ted Andrews (1.24), Silver RavenWolf (1.23), Julia Kristeva (1.23), Pamela Anderson (1.23), Alice Randall (1.23), Lauren Baratz-Logsted (1.22), John Norman (1.21), Sean Hannity (1.21), Honoré de Balzac (1.21), Chetan Bhagat (1.21), Melissa P. (1.21), Edain McCoy (1.2), L. A. Banks (1.2), Robert James Waller (1.2), Alexandria Ripley (1.2), Spencer Johnson (1.2), Charles Berlitz (1.2), Bill O'Reilly (1.2), Beatrice Sparks (1.2), Jerry B. Jenkins (1.2), D.J. Conway (1.2), Nigel Williams (1.2), Dave Hunt (1.2), Harvard Lampoon (1.2), Micah Sparks (1.19) — dangos rhagor 50 uncontroversial authors
The least divergent star ratings. Must have 50 raters. Janet Arnold (0.58), Vogue Knitting Magazine Editors (0.6), Harold Abelson (0.61), Stephan Pastis (0.61), Banksy (0.63), Matsuri Akino (0.63), N. A. M. Rodger (0.64), Peter Norvig (0.65), Martin Meredith (0.65), Toni Weschler (0.66), Adam Hochschild (0.67), Samantha Power (0.67), George Herriman (0.67), B. Kliban (0.67), Walt Kelly (0.67), Harold McGee (0.67), William Mcneill (0.67), Reza Aslan (0.67), Jim Lovell (0.67), Paul Joannides (0.67), David Allen Sibley (0.67), Bill Watterson (0.68), David Simon (0.68), John Howard Yoder (0.68), Jon Savage (0.68), Kiyohiko Azuma (0.69), Suzanne Collins (0.69), Charlotte Fiell (0.69), Richard J. Evans (0.69), Isa Chandra Moskowitz (0.69), Diana Preston (0.7), Elizabeth Shown Mills (0.7), Leigh Brackett (0.7), Miroslav Volf (0.7), Apsley Cherry-Garrard (0.7), Bob Harris (0.7), Joseph Telushkin (0.7), Jane Kenyon (0.7), W. Richard Stevens (0.71), Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (0.71), Peter Seibel (0.71), Vito Russo (0.71), Wil Wheaton (0.71), Deborah Crombie (0.71), Robert Bringhurst (0.71), Gordon W. Prange (0.71), Chalmers Johnson (0.71), Michael Light (0.71), Ben Edlund (0.71), Juliet Barker (0.71) — dangos rhagor
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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), 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) — dangos rhagor 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) — dangos rhagor
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