The best authors, by reader score

It is the plain average of the scores of the author’s ranked books. A book’s score is not a raw average: it is a Bayesian weighted average of reader ratings that pulls a title toward its category’s mean until enough readers have voted, and only books that cleared the ranking gates count.

None of their books has made a ranking yet — too few reader ratings, or our sources disagree on the category. The list grows with every data update.