America’s Favorite Authors (Survey of 76,000 Americans)

WordsRated received over 76,000 survey replies on our website where users let us know what their favorite book is and from this, we were able to decipher each state’s favorite author.

Here we have collated the replies to show the nation’s favorite authors and the top books from each state.

America’s 100 favorite authors

1. JK Rowling
2. Stephen King
3. Jane Austen
4. Colleen Hoover
5. SJ Maas
6. Harper Lee
7. Delia Owens
8. Kristin Hannah
9. JRR Tolkien
10. Taylor Jenkins Reid
11. F Scott Fitzgerald
12. James Patterson
13. Madeline Miller
14. Paulo Coelho
15. John Steinbeck
16. Charlotte Brontë
17. Diana Gabaldon
18. Toni Morrison
19. Neil Gaiman
20. Rick Riordan
21. Markus Zusak
22. Khaled Hosseini
23. VE Schwab
24. Louisa Alcott
25. Nicholas Sparks
26. Jodi Picoult
27. Suzanne Collins
28. Margaret Mitchell
29. Fredrik Backman
30. Margaret Atwood
31. Agatha Christie
32. George Orwell
33. Gabriel García Márquez
34. Leigh Bardugo
35. Lois Lowry
36. John Grisham
37. Brandon Sanderson
38. JRR Tolkein
39. Ray Bradbury
40. Erin Morgenstern
41. CS Lewis
42. Anthony Doerr
43. Alex Michaelides
44. Dean Koontz
45. JD Salinger
46. Dan Brown
47. Charles Dickens
48. Anne Rice
49. Gillian Flynn
50. Donna Tartt
51. Alexandre Dumas
52. Stephenie Meyer
53. John Green
54. SE Hinton
55. Alice Walker
56. Barbara Kingsolver
57. Kurt Vonnegut
58. Nora Roberts
59. Sister Souljah
60. LM Montgomery
61. TJ Klune
62. Matt Haig
63. Octavia Butler
64. George RR Martin
65. Frank Herbert
66. Ken Follett
67. Emily Henry
68. Betty Smith
69. Mitch Albom
70. Orson Scott Card
71. Douglas Adams
72. Zora Neale Hurston
73. Emily Brontë
74. Amor Towles
75. Cassandra Clare
76. Andy Weir
77. Jennifer Armentrout
78. Maya Angelou
79. Fyodor Dostoevsky
80. Patrick Rothfuss
81. Mary Shelley
82. Stephen Chbosky
83. Leo Tolstoy
84. John Irving
85. Madeleine L’Engle
86. Francine Rivers
87. Ernest Hemingway
88. Haruki Murakami
89. Hanya Yanagihara
90. Wally Lamb
91. Christopher Paolini
92. Ayn Rand
93. Michael Crichton
94. Janet Evanovich
95. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
96. Terry Pratchett
97. Oscar Wilde
98. Sally Rooney
99. Robert Greene
100. NK Jemisin

Each state’s favorite author

State	Author
Alabama	JK Rowling
Alaska	Stephen King
Arizona	Stephen King
Arkansas	JK Rowling
California	Jane Austen
Colorado	Stephen King
Connecticut	Stephen King
Delaware	JK Rowling
Florida	JK Rowling
Georgia	JK Rowling
Hawaii	Dan Brown
Idaho	Stephen King
Illinois	Stephen King
Indiana	Stephen King
Iowa	JK Rowling
Kansas	Stephen King
Kentucky	Colleen Hoover
Louisiana	Jane Austen
Maine	Stephen King
Maryland	JK Rowling
Massachusetts	Jane Austen
Michigan	Stephen King
Minnesota	JK Rowling
Mississippi	JK Rowling
Missouri	JK Rowling
Montana	JK Rowling
Nebraska	Stephen King
Nevada	SJ Maas
New Hampshire	JK Rowling
New Jersey	Stephen King
New Mexico	JK Rowling
New York	Stephen King
North Carolina	JK Rowling
North Dakota	George RR Martin
Ohio	JK Rowling
Oklahoma	Stephen King
Oregon	Jane Austen
Pennsylvania	Stephen King
Rhode Island	Colleen Hoover
South Carolina	JK Rowling
South Dakota	JK Rowling
Tennessee	Stephen King
Texas	JK Rowling
Utah	JK Rowling
Vermont	Stephen King
Virginia	Jane Austen
Washington	SJ Maas
West Virginia	JK Rowling
Wisconsin	JK Rowling
Wyoming	Stephen King

Each state’s 25 favorite authors

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming