These authors have written popular (trade) books that are a major influence on statistical literacy.

• Joel Best (shown above) has written on the production of statistics as a social process.
• Howard Wainer has written on statistics and graphs.
• Gerd Gigerenzer has written on risk and conditional probability.
• Michael Blastland has written on statistical innumeracy in the UK.  ** New book in 2013 **
• Jane Miller has written on the use and misuse of English in writing about numbers.
• Uri Braun has written on statistics and statistical illiteracy.  ** New book in 2014 **
• Kaiser Fung has written Numbersense and Numbers Rule Your World.
• Gerald Bracey has written extensively on education and education research.
• John Allen Paulos has written on innumeracy in various forms.