The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 13J.D. SalingerWriters4–01560
2. 122Ralph EllisonWriters2–01532
3. 126Philip K. DickWriters3–11532
4. 172John SteinbeckWriters2–01530
5. 183Michael CrichtonWriters3–11529
6. 214Stephen KingWriters3–11526
7. 264Ray BradburyWriters1–01517
8. 267Alice WalkerWriters1–01517
9. 295Octavia ButlerWriters1–01516
10. 313Kurt VonnegutWriters1–01516
11. 330Charles BukowskiWriters1–01515
12. 347Maya AngelouWriters1–01515
13. 388William F. Buckley Jr.Writers2–11514
14. 433Joseph HellerWriters2–21502
15. 492Tom WolfeWriters2–21501
16. 527Thomas PynchonWriters1–11500
17. 564Sylvia PlathWriters1–11499
18. 575James BaldwinWriters2–21499
19. 642Norman MailerWriters1–21487
20. 644Noam ChomskyWriters1–21487
21. 648Truman CapoteWriters1–21486
22. 652Cormac McCarthyWriters1–21486
23. 679Hunter S. ThompsonWriters1–21485
24. 687Arthur MillerWriters0–11485
25. 702Nora EphronWriters0–11485
26. 721Toni MorrisonWriters1–21484
27. 809Tom ClancyWriters2–31482
28. 818Joan DidionWriters1–21481
29. 821Jack KerouacWriters1–21481
30. 847Shel SilversteinWriters1–31471
31. 871Harper LeeWriters0–21470
32. 882Tennessee WilliamsWriters0–21469
33. 933Langston HughesWriters0–21468
34. 937Richard WrightWriters0–21468
35. 944Dr. SeussWriters0–21467
36. 955Isaac AsimovWriters0–21466
37. 1030Allen GinsbergWriters0–41440
38. 1033Ursula K. Le GuinWriters0–41437
39. 1045Gore VidalWriters0–51425