Authors

1,621 authors — pick a letter to browse, or follow the trail of the most prolific.

Most Prolific

Whoever has the most space on the shelf.

William Shakespeare29Plato21Anthony Trollope19Edgar Rice Burroughs19Jules Verne17Ursula K. Le Guin17Isaac Asimov16Agatha Christie15Charles Dickens15Aristotle14C.S. Lewis14Edgar Wallace14Honoré de Balzac14H.G. Wells13Robert Jordan12Friedrich Nietzsche11J.R.R. Tolkien11Octavia E. Butler11Robert A. Heinlein11Terry Pratchett11Aeschylus10Arthur Conan Doyle10Frank Herbert10Fyodor Dostoevsky10Gene Wolfe10Jack London10Roger Zelazny10Stephen King10Cormac McCarthy9Donald E. Knuth9