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- William Shakespeare316
- Edward Bulwer Lytton222
- Mark Twain187
- Georg Ebers177
- Honoré de Balzac157
- Jules Verne157
- Mór Jókai147
- Mrs. Oliphant141
- Gilbert Parker133
- William Henry Giles Kingston132
- George Manville Fenn128
- Charles Dickens122
- Arthur Conan Doyle114
- Alexandre Dumas113
- W. W. Jacobs113
- George Meredith112
- G. A. Henty109
- William Dean Howells109
- Jack London105
- Horatio Alger, Jr.104
- Edward Stratemeyer104
- John Lothrop Motley103
- H. G. Wells103
- Émile Zola103
- Robert Louis Stevenson101
- Nathaniel Hawthorne100
- Walter Scott98
- R. M. Ballantyne97
- George Sand97
- Leo Tolstoy96
- Henry James94
- Rudyard Kipling93
- William Le Queux93
- Guy de Maupassant89
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe87
- Samuel Pepys87
- Anthony Trollope86
- L. Frank Baum83
- Oliver Optic81
- Edward Sylvester Ellis78
- Winston Churchill76
- H. Rider Haggard76
- Andrew Lang76
- Laura Lee Hope75
- Edgar Rice Burroughs74
- Henrik Ibsen73
- Plato71
- Ralph Henry Barbour70
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra70
- Victor Hugo70
- Benito Pérez Galdós70
- W. C. Tuttle70
- Anatole France69
- Eugène Sue69
- Howard Roger Garis68
- James Grant68
- Charlotte M. Yonge68
- Fergus Hume67
- Murray Leinster67
- George MacDonald67
- Mayne Reid66
- M. E. Braddon65
- S. Baring-Gould64
- John Galsworthy64
- Bret Harte64
- Daniel Defoe63
- Carolyn Wells63
- Dante Alighieri62
- E. Phillips Oppenheim62
- John Ruskin62
- L. T. Meade61
- August Strindberg61
- G. K. Chesterton60
- Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste60
- Randall Garrett60
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez59
- Mrs. Molesworth59
- Friedrich Schiller59
- Bernard Shaw59
- Burt L. Standish59
- Oscar Wilde59
- Hilaire Belloc58
- George O. Smith58
- Jacob Abbott57
- Louisa May Alcott57
- Arnold Bennett57
- Charles Lever55
- James Otis55
- Frances Hodgson Burnett54
- James Fenimore Cooper54
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky54
- Edith Wharton54
- F. Marion Crawford53
- Richard Harding Davis53
- Camilo Castelo Branco52
- Harry Castlemon52
- Thomas Henry Huxley52
- Frederick Marryat52
- Gustave Aimard51
- Friedrich Gerstäcker51
- Maurice Maeterlinck51
- Romain Rolland51
- Upton Sinclair51
- P. G. Wodehouse51
- E. F. Benson50
- G. P. R. James50
- Charles Kingsley50
- Stephen Marlowe50
- Selma Lagerlöf49
- Harriet Beecher Stowe49
- Charles Dudley Warner49
- Robert W. Chambers47
- Marie Lebert47
- Matull, Kurt; Blankensee, Theo von47
- Voltaire47
- Percy F. Westerman47
- A. L. O. E.46
- Victor Appleton46
- Harold Bindloss46
- Richard Cannon46
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov46
- Joseph Conrad46
- Alphonse Daudet46
- Mary Jane Holmes46
- Theodore Roosevelt46
- Thornton W. Burgess45
- Wilkie Collins45
- John Henry Goldfrap45
- William Makepeace Thackeray45
- George Borrow44
- Percy Keese Fitzhugh44
- Lucy Ellen Guernsey44
- Pierre Loti44
- Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards44
- Roy J. Snell44
- Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev44
- Edgar Wallace44
- John Greenleaf Whittier44
- James Oliver Curwood43
- Charles Darwin43
- Rabindranath Tagore43
- Sigmund Freud42
- Jerome K. Jerome42
- Molière42
- Arthur Quiller-Couch42
- William Clark Russell42
- Arthur Scott Bailey41
- Amy Ella Blanchard41
- Ray Cummings41
- Frank R. Stockton41
- Zacharias Topelius41
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson40
- B. M. Bower40
- Giacomo Casanova40
- Charles Egbert Craddock40
- Anna Katharine Green40
- H. Irving Hancock40
- Jules Michelet40
- Henryk Sienkiewicz40
- W. B. Yeats40
- John Kendrick Bangs39
- Louis Becke39
- Josephine Chase39
- Gustave Flaubert39
- Anthony Hope39
- Washington Irving39
- Larin-Kyösti39
- Madeline Leslie39
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche39
- Gordon Stables39
- Nelson S. Bond38
- Thomas Carlyle38
- Martha Finley38
- Thomas Babington Macaulay38
- Edgar Allan Poe38
- Charles G. Harper37
- Oliver Wendell Holmes37
- Annie F. Johnston37
- Väinö Kataja37
- Emmuska Orczy37
- Sir Charles G. D. Roberts37
- Bryce Walton37
- Mrs. Henry Wood37
- Jean de La Fontaine36
- D. H. Lawrence36
- George Barr McCutcheon36
- Herbert Strang36
- Maila Talvio36
- Stanley John Weyman36
- Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin36
- Joseph A. Altsheler35
- T. S. Arthur35
- J. M. Barrie35
- Nicholas Carter35
- François Guizot35
- Amy Le Feuvre35
- Johanna Spyri35
- Mrs. Humphry Ward35
- H. C. Andersen34
- Harry Collingwood34