Forbes Magazine released a list of the top 10 highest paid authors from June 2009-June 2010 who earned a combined $270 million in the 12 months. I’m giving you 15 authors and you need to rank the top 10 in order. The extra 5 are just ones I added to keep it interesting.
Here are the rules… 1. Open to everyone. This is the last week for Round Three.
2. No cheating. No looking at other commenter answers or Googling! Yes, we’re going by the honor system
3. Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.
Choose the top 10 best paid authors and rank them in order 1-10. Each correct answer worth 10 points. And no checking out the magazine!
1. James Patterson
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Stephen King
4. Danielle Steele
5. Ken Follett
6. Dean Koontz
7. Janet Evanovich
8. John Grisham
9. Nicholas Sparks
10. JK Rowling
Dan Brown
Michael Connelly
Charlaine Harris
Kathy Reichs
Nora Roberts
Answers to last week’s quiz here. Current Leaderboard here.
Stacy's Books 
This is all a wild guess …
1. James Patterson
2. John Grisham
3. JK Rowling
4. Michael Connelly
5. Dan Brown
6. Janet Evanovich
7. Stephen King
8. Stephenie Meyer
9. Nora Roberts
10. Nicholas Sparks
10 points. I think this week was a little harder than I anticipated!
This is hilarious, I just the list of the top 10 on a blog few minutes ago and now I wish I had looked more carefully, I remember most of the names, but not what order – other than for sure 1 and 10 – I was also surprised on a couple of the names
1. James Patterson
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Stephen King
4. Dean Koontz
5. Janet Evanovich
6 Danielle Steele
7. Ken Follett
8 John Grisham
9. Nicholas Sparks
10. JK Rowling
50 points is a great score this week!
1 = Meyer
2 = King
3 = Harris
4 = Patterson
5 = Connelly
6 = Rowling
7 = Sparks
8 = Evanovich
9 = Koontz
10 = Steele
Thanks for coming up with all of these inventive quizzes. It must be challenging to create ones covering different levels of knowledge to keep give everyone a chance at some point!
You know I love you, so you know that if I could give you any points I would! And after such a nice compliment too.
James Patterson
Stephenie Meyer
Nora Roberts
Danielle Steele
Ken Follett
Stephen King
Janet Evanovich
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
JK Rowling
80 points! This may be the high score for the week. Woo Hoo 🙂
1-JK Rowling
2-James Patterson
3-Dan Brown
4-John Grisham
5-Stephen King
6- Danielle Steel
7-Nick Sparks
8-Janet Evanovich
9-Nora Roberts
10-Charlaine Harris
You aren’t the only one who didn’t get any points this week. I made the scoring too hard!
Wow, Stacy, this is hard! I’ll just completely guess because I can’t remember exactly when some of the recent books came out.
1. James Patterson
2. Nora Roberts
3. Dan Brown
4. JK Rowling
5. Stephenie Meyer
6. John Grisham
7. Stephen King
8. Janet Evanovich
9. Charlaine Harris
10. Nicholas Sparks
What a hoot! I totally guessed and probably got each and every one wrong. I’m off to Google the actual results.
10 points! And don’t worry, that’s not the low score!
1. JK Rowling
2. Stephen King
3. Stephanie Meyer
4. Dan Brown
5. James Patterson
6. Kathy Reichs
7. Nora Roberts
8. Danielle Steele
9. John Grisham
10. Charlaine Harris
This was tough! Grreat idea.
It was too tough, I guess. No points, but you’re in good company.
1. JK Rowling
2. James Patterson
3. Nora Roberts
4. Stephen King
5. John Grisham
6. Dan Brown
7. Danielle Steel
8. Michael Connelly
9. Dean Koontz
10. Janet Evanovich
Sorry, no points. Apparently I needed to have my husband take this first so I would have seen how hard it was to score!
I have no idea but if it is James Patterson I will scream!
Scream loud – I want to hear it 🙂
I think 1st is JK Rowling and then Stephanie Meyer
Meyer is right for 10 points 🙂
Boy this is really going to be random!
1. J.K. Rowling
2. James Patterson
3. Stephen King
4. Stephenie Meyer
5. Dan Brown
6. John Grisham
7. Dean Koontz
8. Nicholas Sparks
9. Nora Roberts
10. Michael Connelly
10 points is pretty much the average this week 🙂
ok no idea but i m going to google and see.. Jenners is right, if it is JP I am going to faint!
But I do remember some kind of deal he had for writing some n number of books. Can’t remember how much that deal was worth 🙂
Sorry about Patterson. He is a machine.
I think it is
1. James Patterson (sorry Jenners)
2. Stephanie Meyer (those bad movies are making money)
3. Charlaine Harris (True Blood is awesome)
4. Janet Evanovich (love Stephanie)
5. Ken Follett (being an O book and now with the fantastic mini-series)
6. Stephen King (the King of Scary)
7. John Grisham (see his books everywhere)
8. Danielle Steel (always see her books) I’d rather it be Kathy Riechs
9. Nora Roberts/JD Robb (she has a book or three every year)
10. JK Rowlings (HP is a classic)
I am sure Nicholas Sparks should go on this list, but I don’t like him, so I put my favorites on! ;o)
40 points is a good score this week! I’ve never actually read Nicholas Sparks and haven’t felt the need too 😉
Eek! This is extremely difficult! There’s no way I can accurately rank them, so I’ll be happy if I name the 10 or even just 8. 🙂
1. James Pattterson
2. Stephenie Meyer
3. Janet Evanovich
4. Charlaine Harris
5. Stephen King
6. JK Rowling
7. John Grisham
8. Ken Follett
9. Nicholas Sparks
10. Nora Roberts
30 points is a good score!
I saw that article, but of course, I can’t remember anything except James Patterson was #1.
That’s good enough for 10 points!
I read something about James Patterson’s contract… the man is a machine!
1. James Patterson
2. Stephanie Meyer
3. J. K Rowling
4. Ken Follett
5. Stephen King
the rest would be wild guessing but I’ll go with
10. Kathy Reichs 🙂
20 points. You got the two biggies right 🙂
I can not believe this list! I would have never guessed, obviously since I have no points, but it just blows my mind. WOW!