Listing authors by rating
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| Rank | Author | Weighted rating | Votes |
| #31 | Nicholas Sparks | 8.28 | 86 |
| #32 | Stephen Hawking | 8.27 | 47 |
| #33 | Joe R. Lansdale | 8.27 | 44 |
| #34 | Homer | 8.26 | 111 |
| #35 | Khaled Hosseini | 8.25 | 85 |
| #36 | Michael Moorcock | 8.24 | 292 |
| #37 | R. Scott Bakker | 8.24 | 54 |
| #38 | Miguel de Cervantes | 8.24 | 46 |
| #39 | Gabriel García Márquez | 8.23 | 296 |
| #40 | Joseph Heller | 8.21 | 243 |
| #41 | Leo Tolstoy | 8.21 | 163 |
| #42 | Arkady Strugatsky | 8.20 | 66 |
| #43 | Boris Strugatsky | 8.20 | 66 |
| #44 | Tom Robbins | 8.19 | 104 |
| #45 | Gene Wolfe | 8.17 | 225 |
| #46 | Steven Erikson | 8.17 | 387 |
| #47 | José Saramago | 8.17 | 73 |
| #48 | John Kennedy Toole | 8.17 | 50 |
| #49 | S. Morgenstern | 8.17 | 75 |
| #50 | P.G. Wodehouse | 8.15 | 72 |
| #51 | William Goldman | 8.15 | 79 |
| #52 | Warren Ellis | 8.14 | 48 |
| #53 | Hermann Hesse | 8.13 | 178 |
| #54 | Guy Gavriel Kay | 8.13 | 212 |
| #55 | Robert Anton Wilson | 8.12 | 105 |
| #56 | Nikolai Gogol | 8.12 | 56 |
| #57 | Lois Lowry | 8.11 | 76 |
| #58 | Daniel Keyes | 8.11 | 73 |
| #59 | Erich Maria Remarque | 8.09 | 94 |
| #60 | James Clavell | 8.09 | 91 |