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