1. George Gissing
  2. Charles Reade
  3. Anonymous
  4. H. Rider Haggard
  5. R. M. Ballantyne
  6. Oliver Optic
  7. Emile Gaboriau
  8. Durant Drake
  9. George Borrow
  10. Stewart Edward White
  11. Wilkie Collins
  12. Edgar Rice Burroughs
  13. L. Frank Baum
  14. Mayne Reid
  15. G. A. Henty
  16. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  17. James Fenimore Cooper
  18. Carlyle
  19. John Galsworthy
  20. Winn Schwartau