Authors With Multiple Novels On The List
- Multiple novels in the Top 25
In the first stage, all four extant Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling were among the 25 leaders. So were both Middle-earth novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. The second stage featured 21 books by distinct authors: the top 25 with Rowling represented only by her fourth volume, Goblet of Fire, and Tolkien only by The Lord of the Rings. Those two novels finally placed fifth and first; the other preliminary leaders by Rowling and Tolkien nominally led the also-rans in ranks 22–25.
- Multiple novels in the Top 50
- Four: J. K. Rowling
- Three: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens
- Two: Thomas Hardy, George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Multiple novels in the Top 100
- Five: Charles Dickens, Terry Pratchett
- Four: Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson
- Three: Jane Austen
- Two: Thomas Hardy, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy
- Multiple novels in the Top 200
- Fifteen: Terry Pratchett
- Fourteen: Jacqueline Wilson
- Nine: Roald Dahl
- Seven: Charles Dickens
- Four: Thomas Hardy, J. K. Rowling
- Three: Jane Austen, Anthony Horowitz, Stephen King, John Steinbeck
- Two: George Eliot, John Irving, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy
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