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