1 Agatha Christie
2 Douglas Adams
3 Jane Austen
4 Terry Pratchett
5 Jerome K Jerome
6 Charles Dickens
7 John Mortimer
8 Saki
9 Richmal Crompton
10 RK Narayan
11 G K Chesterton
12 Gerald Durrell
13 Rex Stout
14 J.R.R Tolkien
15 Enid Blyton
16 Bill Bryson
17 Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle
18 J K Rowling
19 John Steinbeck
20 Leo Tolstoy
21 Mark Twain
22 Oscar Wilde
23 E F Benson
24 Henry Cecil
25 Roald Dahl
26 George McDonald Fraser
27 Evelyn Waugh
28 Raymond Chandler
29 Daphne du Maurier
30 Stephen Fry
31 Joseph Heller
32 James Herriot
33 Alistair Maclean
34 Dorothy L Sayers
35 James Thurber
36 Louisa May Alcott
37 Lewis Carroll
38 Frederick Forsyth
39 Richard Gordon
40 Graham Greene
41 Georgette Heyer
42 Stephen Leacock
43 Somerset Maugham
44 Alexander McCall Smith
45 Tom Sharpe
46 George Bernard Shaw
47 William Makepeace Thackery
48 Dornford Yates
49 Leslie Charteris
50 Jhumpa Lahiri