Die besten amerikanischen Autoren
Amerikanische Autoren, geordnet nach den Bewertungen, die Leser ihren Büchern geben. Die USA haben fast jedes populäre Genre geprägt: Stephen Kings Horror, Brandon Sandersons epische Fantasy und Ursula K. Le Guins kluge Science-Fiction. Diese Liste versammelt die amerikanischen Autoren, deren Bücher die höchsten Wertungen erreichen, und zeigt auf einen Blick, welche Namen Leser derzeit am meisten schätzen.
Sortiert nach dem Autoren-Score — dem Schnitt der Leserwertungen seiner Bücher auf BookRank. Staatsbürgerschaften: Wikidata.
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- 1Art Spiegelman9,09,0
- 2Chanel Miller9,09,0
- 3Bryan Stevenson8,98,9
- 4Patrick Rothfuss8,98,9
- 5Michelle Alexander8,88,8
- 6Daniel Keyes8,88,8
- 7Michelle Obama8,88,8
- 8Matthew Desmond8,88,8
- 9Robin Wall Kimmerer8,78,7
- 10Matt Dinniman8,78,7
- 11Phil Knight8,78,7
- 12Yaa Gyasi8,78,7
- 13Percival Everett8,78,7
- 14Ronan Farrow8,78,7
- 15Pierce Brown8,68,6
- 16Paul Kalanithi8,68,6
- 17Maia Kobabe8,68,6
- 18Scott McCloud8,68,6
- 19Alice Winn8,58,5
- 20Atul Gawande8,58,5
- 21Anthony Doerr8,58,5
- 22Larry McMurtry8,58,5
- 23Patrick Radden Keefe8,58,5
- 24Amor Towles8,58,5
- 25Cece Bell8,58,5
- 26Kristin Hannah8,58,5
- 27Angie Thomas8,58,5
- 28Carl Sagan8,58,5
- 29Barbara Kingsolver8,58,5
- 30Tomie dePaola8,58,5
- 31Douglas Stuart8,48,4
- 32Patti Smith8,48,4
- 33Rebecca Makkai8,48,4
- 34Shel Silverstein8,48,4
- 35Madeline Miller8,48,4
- 36Ibram X. Kendi8,48,4
- 37Alice Walker8,48,4
- 38Brandon Sanderson8,48,4
- 39Helene Hanff8,48,4
- 40Alex Haley8,48,4
- 41Elizabeth Acevedo8,48,4
- 42Loung Ung8,48,4
- 43Andy Weir8,48,4
- 44Randall Munroe8,48,4
- 45Timothy Snyder8,48,4
- 46Alison Bechdel8,48,4
- 47Becky Chambers8,38,3
- 48Brian McClellan8,38,3
- 49Michelle Zauner8,38,3
- 50James Baldwin8,38,3
- 51Maurice Sendak8,38,3
- 52Norton Juster8,38,3
- 53R. J. Palacio8,38,3
- 54Edward Tufte8,38,3
- 55Arnold Lobel8,38,3
- 56James Clavell8,38,3
- 57Siddhartha Mukherjee8,38,3
- 58Jonathan Haidt8,38,3
- 59Michael Shaara8,38,3
- 60Maya Angelou8,38,3
- 61Howard Zinn8,38,3
- 62Rebecca Skloot8,38,3
- 63Eric Carle8,38,3
- 64David Small8,38,3
- 65Craig Thompson8,38,3
- 66Ta-Nehisi Coates8,38,3
- 67Katherine Mack8,38,3
- 68Elie Wiesel8,38,3
- 69Jim Butcher8,38,3
- 70Raina Telgemeier8,38,3
- 71Aiden Thomas8,38,3
- 72David Goggins8,38,3
- 73Robin Hobb8,38,3
- 74Walter Isaacson8,38,3
- 75Laini Taylor8,38,3
- 76Kathryn Stockett8,28,2
- 77Robert McCloskey8,28,2
- 78Robert N. Munsch8,28,2
- 79Douglas Hofstadter8,28,2
- 80Viet Thanh Nguyen8,28,2
- 81Brian Greene8,28,2
- 82Charles C. Mann8,28,2
- 83Angeline Boulley8,28,2
- 84Kwame Alexander8,28,2
- 85Brit Bennett8,28,2
- 86Cormac McCarthy8,28,2
- 87David Foster Wallace8,28,2
- 88Don Freeman8,28,2
- 89Brad Meltzer8,28,2
- 90Neil H. Shubin8,28,2
- 91Taylor Jenkins Reid8,28,2
- 92James Clear8,28,2
- 93Aldo Leopold8,28,2
- 94Charles Portis8,28,2
- 95Robert Jackson Bennett8,28,2
- 96Chris Colfer8,28,2
- 97Will Durant8,28,2
- 98John Howard Griffin8,28,2
- 99Arlene Mosel8,28,2
- 100Esphyr Slobodkina8,28,2
- 101David Wiesner8,28,2
- 102Daniel Kahneman8,28,2
- 103Clement Clarke Moore8,28,2
- 104Stephen Chbosky8,28,2
- 105Crockett Johnson8,28,2
- 106Frank Miller8,28,2
- 107Harold McGee8,28,2
- 108Chris Van Allsburg8,28,2
- 109David Graeber8,28,2
- 110Mark Z. Danielewski8,28,2
- 111Tim O'Brien8,28,2
- 112Irving Stone8,28,2
- 113Sue Klebold8,28,2
- 114Ashlee Vance8,28,2
- 115Delia Owens8,28,2
- 116Rick Riordan8,18,1
- 117Sarah J. Maas8,18,1
- 118N. K. Jemisin8,18,1
- 119Barack Obama8,18,1
- 120Thomas Kuhn8,18,1
- 121Bruce Springsteen8,18,1
- 122Grace Lin8,18,1
- 123Robert Jordan8,18,1
- 124Neal Shusterman8,18,1
- 125Mario Puzo8,18,1
- 126Elizabeth Kolbert8,18,1
- 127Jane Yolen8,18,1
- 128Sabaa Tahir8,18,1
- 129Donna Tartt8,18,1
- 130Ted Chiang8,18,1
- 131Hank Green8,18,1
- 132Margaret Mitchell8,18,1
- 133Truman Capote8,18,1
- 134Robert Heilbroner8,18,1
- 135Susannah Cahalan8,18,1
- 136Carmen Maria Machado8,18,1
- 137Rachel Carson8,18,1
- 138Hannah Arendt8,18,1
- 139Tony Kushner8,18,1
- 140Simon Jimenez8,18,1
- 141Benjamin Graham8,18,1
- 142David Wallace-Wells8,18,1
- 143Marissa Meyer8,18,1
- 144Else Holmelund Minarik8,18,1
- 145George R. R. Martin8,18,1
- 146Suzanne Collins8,18,1
- 147Arkady Martine8,18,1
- 148Jared Diamond8,18,1
- 149Steven Pinker8,18,1
- 150Walter Dean Myers8,18,1
- 151Tamora Pierce8,18,1
- 152Patricia Briggs8,18,1
- 153Kate DiCamillo8,18,1
- 154Dale Carnegie8,18,1
- 155Elizabeth E. Wein8,18,1
- 156Dr. Seuss8,08,0
- 157Octavia E. Butler8,08,0
- 158V. E. Schwab8,08,0
- 159Lloyd Alexander8,08,0
- 160Louis Sachar8,08,0
- 161Margaret Wise Brown8,08,0
- 162Joseph Heller8,08,0
- 163George Samuel Clason8,08,0
- 164Fannie Flagg8,08,0
- 165Mark Manson8,08,0
- 166Neil deGrasse Tyson8,08,0
- 167Dan Simmons8,08,0
- 168Patricia Wrede8,08,0
- 169Jhumpa Lahiri8,08,0
- 170Mark Bittman8,08,0
- 171Toni Morrison8,08,0
- 172Frances Hodgson Burnett8,08,0
- 173Bill Martin Jr.8,08,0
- 174William Peter Blatty8,08,0
- 175Virginia Lee Burton8,08,0
- 176Gene Zion8,08,0
- 177Cassandra Clare8,08,0
- 178Diana Gabaldon8,08,0
- 179Brené Brown8,08,0
- 180Ruth Stiles Gannett8,08,0
- 181Ryka Aoki8,08,0
- 182Edgar Allan Poe8,08,0
- 183Andrew Ross Sorkin8,08,0
- 184Gabrielle Zevin8,08,0
- 185Shannon Hale8,08,0
- 186Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah8,08,0
- 187Judith Viorst8,08,0
- 188Wallace Stegner8,08,0
- 189Richelle Mead8,08,0
- 190Jon Krakauer8,08,0
- 191Casey McQuiston8,08,0
- 192David Grann8,08,0
- 193Mike Mignola8,08,0
- 194Anne Tyler8,08,0
- 195Joseph Campbell8,08,0
- 196Alan Watts8,08,0
- 197Raymond Carver8,08,0
- 198Eric Schlosser8,08,0
- 199Ernest Becker8,08,0
- 200Patrick Ness8,08,0
- 201Mitch Albom8,08,0
- 202Robert Greene8,08,0
- 203Hanya Yanagihara8,08,0
- 204Katherine Paterson8,08,0
- 205Isaac Asimov8,08,0
- 206Ursula K. Le Guin8,08,0
- 207Walter M. Miller8,08,0
- 208Arthur Golden8,08,0
- 209Benjamin Franklin8,08,0
- 210Hernán Díaz8,08,0
- 211Lois McMaster Bujold8,08,0
- 212Laurie Halse Anderson8,08,0
- 213Jennette McCurdy8,08,0
- 214Michael Finkel8,08,0
- 215Eric Ries8,08,0
- 216Axie Oh8,08,0
- 217John Scalzi7,97,9
- 218Nghi Vo7,97,9
- 219Jean Craighead George7,97,9
- 220Joan Didion7,97,9
- 221André Aciman7,97,9
- 222Leigh Bardugo7,97,9
- 223Seanan McGuire7,97,9
- 224Beverly Cleary7,97,9
- 225Ann Leckie7,97,9
- 226Dan Heath7,97,9
- 227Joshua Foer7,97,9
- 228P. D. Eastman7,97,9
- 229Dav Pilkey7,97,9
- 230Sylvia Plath7,97,9
- 231Thomas Paine7,97,9
- 232Peter S. Beagle7,97,9
- 233Leigh Eddings7,97,9
- 234Emily St. John Mandel7,97,9
- 235Kelly Barnhill7,97,9
- 236W. E. B. Du Bois7,97,9
- 237Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi7,97,9
- 238Michael Lewis7,97,9
- 239Elizabeth George Speare7,97,9
- 240Robert Cialdini7,97,9
- 241Pearl S. Buck7,97,9
- 242Megan Abbott7,97,9
- 243John Steinbeck7,97,9
- 244S. E. Hinton7,97,9
- 245Harriet Jacobs7,97,9
- 246Frank McCourt7,97,9
- 247Nancy Garden7,97,9
- 248R. A. Salvatore7,97,9
- 249Charles Duhigg7,97,9
- 250Joe Haldeman7,97,9
- 251Wilson Rawls7,97,9
- 252Thornton Wilder7,97,9
- 253Vicki Robin7,97,9
- 254Roxane Gay7,97,9
- 255Kurt Vonnegut7,97,9
- 256Neal Stephenson7,97,9
- 257Ray Bradbury7,97,9
- 258Emily Henry7,97,9
- 259George Saunders7,97,9
- 260Andrea Stewart7,97,9
- 261Carol Ryrie Brink7,97,9
- 262Colson Whitehead7,97,9
- 263Ursula Vernon7,97,9
- 264Robert M. Pirsig7,97,9
- 265Margaret Peterson Haddix7,97,9
- 266E. B. White7,97,9
- 267Torrey Peters7,97,9
- 268Kristin Cashore7,87,8
- 269Clifford D. Simak7,87,8
- 270Gail Carson Levine7,87,8
- 271Audrey Niffenegger7,87,8
- 272Jean Webster7,87,8
- 273Michael Connelly7,87,8
- 274Thomas Pynchon7,87,8
- 275Frank Herbert7,87,8
- 276Marie Lu7,87,8
- 277Ransom Riggs7,87,8
- 278Nnedi Okorafor7,87,8
- 279Sherman Alexie7,87,8
- 280E. D. Baker7,87,8
- 281Holly Black7,87,8
- 282Laura Ingalls Wilder7,87,8
- 283Ambrose Bierce7,87,8
- 284David Allen7,87,8
- 285R.F. Kuang7,87,8
- 286Nassim Nicholas Taleb7,87,8
- 287Jennifer Niven7,87,8
- 288Robert R. McCammon7,87,8
- 289John Kennedy Toole7,87,8
- 290Mildred D. Taylor7,87,8
- 291John Gardner7,87,8
- 292Cal Newport7,87,8
- 293Dennis Lehane7,87,8
- 294Rivers Solomon7,87,8
- 295Meg Cabot7,87,8
- 296Justin Cronin7,87,8
- 297Tomi Adeyemi7,87,8
- 298Celeste Ng7,87,8
- 299Jack London7,87,8
- 300Richard Thaler7,87,8
- 301Patricia MacLachlan7,87,8
- 302Terry Brooks7,87,8
- 303Katherine Applegate7,87,8
- 304Sheryl Sandberg7,87,8
- 305Sidney Sheldon7,87,8
- 306Alan Weisman7,87,8
- 307Vladimir Nabokov7,87,8
- 308David Byrne7,87,8
- 309Cheryl Strayed7,87,8
- 310Rainbow Rowell7,87,8
- 311Christopher Buehlman7,87,8
- 312David Levithan7,87,8
- 313Zora Neale Hurston7,87,8
- 314Paolo Bacigalupi7,87,8
- 315William Faulkner7,87,8
- 316Charlotte Perkins Gilman7,87,8
- 317Marion Zimmer Bradley7,87,8
- 318Fred Gipson7,87,8
- 319Jennifer Egan7,77,7
- 320Gertrude Chandler Warner7,77,7
- 321Upton Sinclair7,77,7
- 322Avi7,77,7
- 323Erich Fromm7,77,7
- 324Jonathan Franzen7,77,7
- 325Sara Gruen7,77,7
- 326Ted Kaczynski7,77,7
- 327Lois Lowry7,77,7
- 328James Ellroy7,77,7
- 329Jenny Han7,77,7
- 330Willa Cather7,77,7
- 331Edward Bernays7,77,7
- 332Jason Matthews7,77,7
- 333Benjamin Hoff7,77,7
- 334Satya Nadella7,77,7
- 335Anne McCaffrey7,77,7
- 336Michael Chabon7,77,7
- 337Steven D. Levitt7,77,7
- 338Nicola Yoon7,77,7
- 339Donald J. Sobol7,77,7
- 340Thomas J. Stanley7,77,7
- 341Ira Levin7,77,7
- 342Tennessee Williams7,77,7
- 343Sid Fleischman7,77,7
- 344Sharon Creech7,77,7
- 345Philip K. Dick7,77,7
- 346Tess Gerritsen7,77,7
- 347Louisa May Alcott7,77,7
- 348J. D. Salinger7,77,7
- 349Gary Paulsen7,77,7
- 350Maggie Stiefvater7,77,7
- 351Caleb Carr7,77,7
- 352Clive Cussler7,77,7
- 353William Gibson7,77,7
- 354Jean M. Auel7,77,7
- 355Raymond Chandler7,77,7
- 356Robin Sloan7,77,7
- 357Sue Monk Kidd7,77,7
- 358Christopher Paolini7,77,7
- 359L. Frank Baum7,77,7
- 360Tana French7,77,7
- 361Junot Díaz7,77,7
- 362Mindy Kaling7,77,7
- 363Sinclair Lewis7,77,7
- 364Rachel Caine7,77,7
- 365Jonathan Safran Foer7,77,7
- 366Natalie Babbitt7,77,7
- 367Jessica Bird7,77,7
- 368Madeleine L'Engle7,77,7
- 369Stephen Graham Jones7,77,7
- 370Mark Twain7,77,7
- 371Catherynne M. Valente7,77,7
- 372Kalynn Bayron7,77,7
- 373Scott Turow7,77,7
- 374Terry Goodkind7,77,7
- 375Gillian Flynn7,77,7
- 376Victor LaValle7,77,7
- 377Esther Forbes7,77,7
- 378Thomas Rockwell7,77,7
- 379Napoleon Hill7,77,7
- 380Mary Higgins Clark7,77,7
- 381David Baldacci7,77,7
- 382Janet Evanovich7,77,7
- 383Edgar Rice Burroughs7,77,7
- 384H. Beam Piper7,77,7
- 385Thomas Harris7,67,6
- 386Patricia Highsmith7,67,6
- 387John Green7,67,6
- 388Amy Poehler7,67,6
- 389Stephen King7,67,6
- 390Greg Bear7,67,6
- 391Nelson DeMille7,67,6
- 392Sarah Dessen7,67,6
- 393Frank Beddor7,67,6
- 394Caro Claire Burke7,67,6
- 395Ernest Hemingway7,67,6
- 396Max Brooks7,67,6
- 397Ally Carter7,67,6
- 398Lorraine Hansberry7,67,6
- 399Harlan Coben7,67,6
- 400Robert A. Heinlein7,67,6
- 401Tom Clancy7,67,6
- 402Patricia Cornwell7,67,6
- 403Kim Stanley Robinson7,67,6
- 404Karen M. McManus7,67,6
- 405Edward Ashton7,67,6
- 406Fritz Leiber7,67,6
- 407Amy Tan7,67,6
- 408Joan D. Vinge7,67,6
- 409Colleen Hoover7,67,6
- 410Grady Hendrix7,67,6
- 411Dashiell Hammett7,67,6
- 412Jerry Spinelli7,67,6
- 413Theodore Dreiser7,67,6
- 414Andrew Sean Greer7,67,6
- 415Larry Niven7,67,6
- 416Robert Ludlum7,67,6
- 417Charles Bukowski7,67,6
- 418William Styron7,67,6
- 419Charlie N. Holmberg7,67,6
- 420Nicholas Sparks7,67,6
- 421Carl Hiaasen7,67,6
- 422Harry Harrison7,67,6
- 423Tracy Chevalier7,67,6
- 424Martin Cruz Smith7,67,6
- 425Kevin Kwan7,67,6
- 426Owen King7,67,6
- 427Nora Ephron7,67,6
- 428Julia Cameron7,67,6
- 429James Patterson7,57,5
- 430Tahereh Mafi7,57,5
- 431Dean Koontz7,57,5
- 432Edith Wharton7,57,5
- 433Walker Percy7,57,5
- 434Caroline B. Cooney7,57,5
- 435Sequoia Nagamatsu7,57,5
- 436Jenny Odell7,57,5
- 437John Grisham7,57,5
- 438Samuel R. Delany7,57,5
- 439Elizabeth Gilbert7,57,5
- 440Scott O'Dell7,57,5
- 441Jeanne DuPrau7,57,5
- 442James Frey7,57,5
- 443Marisha Pessl7,57,5
- 444Carrie Fisher7,57,5
- 445Sue Grafton7,57,5
- 446F. Paul Wilson7,57,5
- 447M. T. Anderson7,57,5
- 448F. Scott Fitzgerald7,57,5
- 449Sandra Cisneros7,57,5
- 450Kristin Cast7,57,5
- 451Lauren Oliver7,47,4
- 452Eric Berne7,47,4
- 453Michael Crichton7,47,4
- 454Anne Rice7,47,4
- 455James Dashner7,47,4
- 456Victoria Aveyard7,47,4
- 457Charlie Jane Anders7,47,4
- 458Caitlin Starling7,47,4
- 459James Fenimore Cooper7,47,4
- 460Tim Ferriss7,47,4
- 461Veronica Roth7,47,4
- 462Todd Ritter7,47,4
- 463Gayle Forman7,47,4
- 464Harriet Beecher Stowe7,47,4
- 465Meg Rosoff7,47,4
- 466Jeff VanderMeer7,47,4
- 467Ottessa Moshfegh7,47,4
- 468Rick Yancey7,47,4
- 469Henry David Thoreau7,47,4
- 470Julia Quinn7,47,4
- 471Becca Fitzpatrick7,47,4
- 472Olivie Blake7,47,4
- 473Arthur Miller7,47,4
- 474Chuck Palahniuk7,47,4
- 475V. C. Andrews7,47,4
- 476Erich Segal7,47,4
- 477Scott Smith7,37,3
- 478Washington Irving7,37,3
- 479Bret Easton Ellis7,37,3
- 480Poppy Z. Brite7,37,3
- 481Dave Eggers7,37,3
- 482Kate Chopin7,37,3
- 483Dan Brown7,27,2
- 484Ernest Cline7,27,2
- 485Alice Sebold7,27,2
- 486Jay Asher7,17,1
- 487Seth Grahame-Smith7,17,1
- 488Charles Yu7,17,1
- 489Jack Kerouac7,07,0
- 490Ally Condie7,07,0
- 491Beatrice Sparks6,86,8
- 492Henry James6,76,7
- 493Stephenie Meyer6,66,6
- 494Nathaniel Hawthorne6,66,6
