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#	Author	% Correct
1	William Shakespeare	90%
2	Charles Dickens	87%
7	Jane Austen	81%
19	J.K. Rowling	80%
5	Leo Tolstoy	76%
6	Ernest Hemingway	69%
4	J.R.R. Tolkien	69%
21	Stephen King	67%
10	Mark Twain	65%
8	George Orwell	63%
15	F. Scott Fitzgerald	60%
28	Agatha Christie	59%
9	John Steinbeck	59%
37	Harper Lee	57%
12	C.S. Lewis	56%
16	Oscar Wilde	56%
26	Victor Hugo	56%
11	James Joyce	54%
25	Homer	53%
14	Edgar Allen Poe	52%
31	Virginia Woolf	52%
40	Emily Brontë	51%
3	Fyodor Dostoevsky	51%
27	Charlotte Brontë	50%
23	J.D. Salinger	49%
35	Herman Melville	48%
13	Alexandre Dumas	47%
50	Arthur Conan Doyle	47%
90	Dan Brown	46%
36	Dante Alighieri	45%
22	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	45%
65	Miguel de Cervantes	45%
44	Roald Dahl	44%
18	Franz Kafka	43%
57	George Eliot	43%
20	William Faulkner	42%
30	Robert Louis Stevenson	41%
24	Vladimir Nabokov	40%
34	Thomas Hardy	39%
38	Joseph Conrad	38%
77	Sylvia Plath	38%
46	Aldous Huxley	37%
75	Bram Stoker	37%
49	H.G. Wells	37%
74	Rudyard Kipling	36%
32	Albert Camus	35%
94	Gustave Flaubert	35%
55	Henry Miller	35%
39	Jack Kerouac	35%
42	Jules Verne	35%
17	Kurt Vonnegut	35%
69	Salman Rushdie	35%
91	Toni Morrison	35%
92	Margaret Atwood	34%
83	Nathaniel Hawthorne	34%
84	Graham Greene	33%
66	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	33%
41	Marcel Proust	33%
70	Plato	32%
33	Douglas Adams	31%
61	John Grisham	31%
52	Ray Bradbury	31%
72	Thomas Mann	31%
93	Emily Dickinson	30%
64	Joseph Heller	30%
29	Ayn Rand	29%
48	Jack London	29%
47	Anton Chekhov	28%
85	D.H. Lawrence	28%
54	John Milton	28%
56	Dr. Seuss	27%
97	Evelyn Waugh	26%
82	Honoré de Balzac	26%
71	Isaac Asimov	26%
96	Edith Wharton	24%
62	Henry David Thoreau	24%
67	John Irving	24%
98	Samuel Beckett	24%
63	Ian McEwan	23%
81	Nikolai Gogol	23%
53	Paulo Coelho	23%
100	William Blake	23%
76	Cormac McCarthy	22%
88	Friedrich Nietzsche	22%
60	Hunter S. Thompson	22%
89	Ralph Waldo Emerson	22%
51	Terry Pratchett	22%
68	H.P. Lovecraft	21%
78	Jean Paul Sarte	21%
45	Philip Pullman	21%
79	Jorge Luis Borges	20%
59	Khalid Hosseini	20%
73	Nicolas Sparks	20%
43	W. Somerset Maugham	20%
99	Sidney Sheldon	18%
86	Charles Bukowski	17%
95	Mikail Bulgakov	17%
80	Orson Scott Card	16%
58	Jodi Picoult	15%
87	Chuck Palahniuk	13%