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