CLASSIC

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. John Steinbeck

3. J. R. R. Tolkien

4. C. S. Lewis

5. Mark Twain

6. Ray Bradbury

7. H. G. Wells

8. Charles Dickens

9. Madeleine L’Engle

10. Jack London

11. Herman Melville

12. William Golding

13. Robert Louis Stevenson

14. George Orwell

15. Jules Verne

16. Flannery O’Connor

17. Victor Hugo

18. Pearl Buck

19. Alexander Dumas

20. O. Henry

OLD-SCHOOL

1. Alistair MacLean

2. Robert Ludlum

3. Dick Francis

4. Graham Greene

5. John LeCarre

6. Michael Crichton

7. Morris L. West

8. Helen MacInnes

9. Len Deighton

10. Adam Hall

11. Frederick Forsyth

12. Jack Higgins

13. John D. MacDonald

14. Colin Forbes

15. William F. Buckley, Jr.

16. Craig Thomas

17. Leon Uris

18. Alfred Coppel

19. Dorothy Gilman

20. Eric Ambler

MODERN

1. James Lee Burke

2. Dean Koontz

3. Stephen Lawhead

4. John Grisham

5. Harlan Coben

6. Stephen King

7. Daniel Silva

8. Linwood Barclay

9. James Byron Huggins

10. Tom Clancy

11. Michael Chabon

12. River Jordan

13. Stephen L. Carter

14. Stephen Zimmer

15. Mitch Albom

16. Robert Morgan

17. Alex Berenson

18. Tom Rob Smith

19. Mark Greaney

20. David Maine

FAITH-BASED

1. Steven James

2. Ted Dekker

3. Frank Peretti

4. Robert Liparulo

5. Tim Downs

6. Ninie Hammon

7. Randy Singer

8. Claudia Mair Burney

9. Bill Myers

10. Alton Gansky

11. Ray Blackston

12. Athol Dickson

13. Mike Dellosso

14. Bodie Thoene

15. Randy Alcorn

16. Tricia Goyer

17. Robert Whitlow

18. Chris Well

19. Jefferson Scott

20. Tom Morrisey