Colleen Hoover, 45
Novelist
1
Lauren Roberts, 22
2
Nevada Barr, 73
3
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
4
Ana Huang, 34
5
Shannon Messenger, 33
6
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
7
Anne Perry (1938-2023)
8
Sarah J. Maas, 39
9
Lynn Painter
10
Zadie Smith, 49
11
Lauren Tarshis, 61
12
Nicolle Wallace, 53
13
Joyce Meyer, 82
14
Emmy Montes, 39
15
Kate Cary, 57
16
Christine M. Rose, 55
17
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
18
Anna Todd, 36
19
Rebecca Yarros, 44
20
MacKenzie Scott, 55
21
Amy Rose, 34
22
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
23
Mariama Ba (1929-1981)
24
Male Novelists
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R.J. Palacio, 61
25
Karrine Steffans, 46
26
Emily Henry
27
H. D. Carlton
28
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
29
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
30
Marissa Meyer, 41
31
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 47
32
Mary Morrison, 60
33
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
34
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
35
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
36
Elsie Silver, 37
37
Ann Coulter, 63
38
Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
39
Lorraine Warren (1927-2019)
40
Sharon Draper, 72
41
Ali Hazelwood, 35
42
Emily Mitchell, 50
43
Pam Muñoz Ryan, 73
44
Laura Esquivel, 74
45
Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
46
Sara Shepard, 48
47
Karen M. McManus, 56
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