The Guardian has posted the power 100 list of most influential people in books in the UK. Some of the names are obvious choices like the founder of Amazon, and JK Rowling, but check out # 100 on the list. Don’t you love it! Oh, and Jamie Oliver made the list too.
| Rank | Name | Job title | Category |
| 1 | Jeff Bezos | Founder and CEO of Amazon | Bookselling |
| 2 | JK Rowling | Author | Author |
| 3 | Larry Page | CEO, Google | Digital technology |
| 4 | James Daunt/Alexander Mamut | MD, Waterstones/Proprietor, Waterstones | Bookselling |
| 5 | Tim Hely Hutchinson | Group Chief Executive, Hachette UK | Publisher |
| 6 | James Patterson | Author | Author |
| 7 | Kate Swann | CEO, WH Smith | Bookselling |
| 8 | Jamie Oliver | Chef, broadcaster and cookery writer | Author |
| 9 | Gail Rebuck | CEO, Random House | Publisher |
| 10 | Tim Cook | CEO, Apple | Digital technology |
| 11 | Ion Trewin/Emmanuel Roman | Literary Director, Man Booker prizes and COO, Man Group | Literary awards |
| 12 | Rachel Harcourt and Garry Blackman | Book buyers, Tesco | Bookselling |
| 13 | John Makinson/Tom Weldon | Chairman and chief executive and UK CEO, Penguin Group | Publisher |
| 14 | Andrew Wylie | Literary Agent | Literary agent |
| 15 | Victoria Barnsley | CEO, HarperCollins UK | Publishing |
| 16 | Kate Mosse | Author, honorary director, Orange prize | Literary awards |
| 17 | Jacqueline Wilson | Author, former children’s laureate | Author |
| 18 | The ghost of Stieg Larsson | Author | Author |
| 19 | Ian McEwan | Author | Author |
| 20 | Janice Hadlow | Controller, BBC2 | Broadcasting |
| 21 | Carol Ann Duffy | Poet laureate | Poet |
| 22 | Anthony Forbes-Watson | MD, Pan Macmillan | Publishing |
| 23 | Ed Victor | Literary Agent | Literary agent |
| 24 | Martina Cole | Author | Author |
| 25 | Nigel Newton | CEO, Bloomsbury | Publishing |
| 26 | Stephen Page | CEO, Faber | Publishing |
| 27 | Zadie Smith | Author | Author |
| 28 | Terry Pratchett | Author | Author |
| 29 | Larry Finlay | MD, Transworld | Publishing |
| 30 | Tony Phillips | Commissioning editor, factual programmes, Radio 4 | Broadcasting |
| 31 | Nigel Portwood | CEO, Oxford University Press | Publisher |
| 32 | Julia Donaldson | Author and children’s laureate | Author |
| 33 | Stuart Proffitt | Publishing director, Penguin Press | Publishing |
| 34 | Mariella Frostrup | Presenter | Broadcasting |
| 35 | Malcolm Gladwell | Author | Author |
| 36 | Simon Prosser | Publishing director, Hamish Hamilton | Publishing |
| 37 | Marian Keyes | Author | Author |
| 38 | Philip Pullman | Author | Author |
| 39 | Ursula Mackenzie | Chief Executive, Publisher, Little Brown | Publishing |
| 40 | Dan Franklin | Publisher, Jonathan Cape | Publishing |
| 41 | Mark Lawson | Author and presenter | Author |
| 42 | Jamie Byng | MD, Canongate | Publishing |
| 43 | Sigrid Rausing | Publisher, Granta magazine and Granta Books | Publishing |
| 44 | Deborah Rogers | Literary agent | Literary agent |
| 45 | Salman Rushdie | Author | Author |
| 46 | Seamus Heaney | Poet | Poet |
| 47 | James Wood | Critic | Literary critic or editor |
| 48 | Peter Englund | Author and secretary of the Swedish Academy | Author |
| 49 | Richard & Judy | Presenters, book club overseers | Broadcasting |
| 50 | Martin Amis | Author | Author |
| 51 | Peter Florence | Director, Hay festivals | Literary festivals |
| 52 | Jonathan Franzen | Author | Author |
| 53 | Michiko Kakutani | Chief reviewer, New York Times | Literary critic or editor |
| 54 | Toby Mundy | CEO, Atlantic Books | Publishing |
| 55 | Alexandra Pringle | Editor-in-chief, Bloomsbury | Publishing |
| 56 | Nigella Lawson | Broadcaster and cookery writer | Broadcasting |
| 57 | Andrew Marr | Author and broadcaster | Broadcasting |
| 58 | Philip Roth | Author | Author |
| 59 | Stephen Fry | Author, broadcaster, tweeter | Broadcasting |
| 60 | Richard Dawkins | Author | Author |
| 61 | Stephenie Meyer | Author | Author |
| 62 | Deborah Treisman | Fiction editor, New Yorker | Literary critic or editor |
| 63 | Stephanie Duncan | Digital media director, Bloomsbury | Publishing |
| 64 | Dan Brown | Author | Author |
| 65 | Lennie Goodings | Publisher, Virago Press | Publishing |
| 66 | Tariq Ali | Author, commentator | Author |
| 67 | Robert Silvers | Editor, New York Review of Books | Literary critic or editor |
| 68 | Andrew Motion | Poet | Poet |
| 69 | Sarah Waters | Author | Author |
| 70 | Christopher MacLehose | Publisher, Quercus | Publishing |
| 71 | Hilary Mantel | Author | Author |
| 72 | Jeremy Hunt | Culture secretary | Politician |
| 73 | Ahdaf Soueif | Author, Palfest founder | Author |
| 74 | John le Carré | Author | Author |
| 75 | Ravi Mirchandani | Publishing director, Atlantic Books | Publishing |
| 76 | Nick Barley | Director, Edinburgh international book festival | Literary festivals |
| 77 | Nicholas Pearson | Publishing director, Fourth Estate | Publishing |
| 78 | Amanda Ross | TV producer | Broadcasting |
| 79 | Mary Kay Wilmers | Editor, London Review of Books | Literary critic or editor |
| 80 | Daisy Goodwin | Author, TV producer and presenter | Broadcasting |
| 81 | Neil Gaiman | Author | Author |
| 82 | Sam Husain | CEO, Foyles | Bookselling |
| 83 | Antonia Byatt | Director of literature, Arts Council England | Other |
| 84 | Colm Tóibín | Author and publisher | Author |
| 85 | Alan Bennett | Author | Author |
| 86 | Peter Stothard | Editor, Times Literary Supplement | Literary critic or editor |
| 87 | Peter Straus | Literary agent and publisher | Literary agent |
| 88 | Andrew Davies | Author and screenwriter | Author |
| 89 | Tom Holland | Author, and chair of the Society of Authors | Author |
| 90 | Caroline Michel | Literary agent | Literary agent |
| 91 | Simon Schama | Historian, broadcaster | Broadcasting |
| 92 | Jonathan Heawood | Director, English PEN | Other |
| 93 | Anthea Bell | Translator | Other |
| 94 | Hisham Mater | Author, commentator | Author |
| 95 | Tanya Seghatchian | Film producer and former head of Film Fund, BFI | Other |
| 96 | Alan Moore | Graphic novelist | Author |
| 97 | Antony Beevor | Military historian | Author |
| 98 | Ted Smart | Founder, the Book People | Bookselling |
| 99 | Amanda Hocking | Self-published author | Author |
| 100 | You | Reader, buyer, blogger, commenter, tweeter… | Other |
Sheryl McFarlane 
Sep 27, 2011 @ 09:57:29
#100 is pretty cool…wish I would have thought of it.
Sep 27, 2011 @ 08:16:12
I absolutely LOVE #100! And this is inspiring me to make my own Power List of authors, mentors, etc.