Trending Novelists — September 2026
The 99 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Chiyo Uno. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
18,034,362
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Chiyo Uno
Japanese writer (1897-1996)
766,512
views
views
2
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
588,058
views
views
3
Sora Hokimoto
Japanese film director, musician and novelist
443,883
views
views
4
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
350,618
views
views
5
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
324,443
views
views
6
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
320,095
views
views
7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
319,505
views
views
8
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
316,401
views
views
9
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
305,346
views
views
10
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
293,652
views
views
11
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
286,120
views
views
12
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
282,949
views
views
13
Wendell Berry
American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky (1934-2026)
276,255
views
views
14
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
267,657
views
views
15
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
266,437
views
views
16
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
260,817
views
views
17
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
246,003
views
views
18
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
244,892
views
views
19
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
243,254
views
views
20
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
231,820
views
views
21
Ryō Asai
Japanese novelist
231,356
views
views
22
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
221,400
views
views
23
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
217,593
views
views
24
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
211,577
views
views
25
Giovannino Guareschi
Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist (1908-1968)
207,637
views
views
26
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
206,965
views
views
27
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
206,711
views
views
28
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
205,194
views
views
29
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
192,628
views
views
30
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
189,766
views
views
31
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
185,917
views
views
32
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
182,708
views
views
33
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
177,619
views
views
34
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
176,936
views
views
35
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
174,286
views
views
36
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
172,895
views
views
37
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
169,853
views
views
38
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
169,601
views
views
39
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
168,576
views
views
40
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
166,585
views
views
41
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
165,546
views
views
42
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
165,470
views
views
43
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
160,976
views
views
44
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
160,158
views
views
45
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
158,360
views
views
46
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
152,826
views
views
47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
151,322
views
views
48
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
149,303
views
views
49
Augusto Cury
Brazilian writer and psychiatrist
149,120
views
views
50
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
149,053
views
views
51
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
148,382
views
views
52
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
147,794
views
views
53
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
146,096
views
views
54
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
144,786
views
views
55
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)
142,964
views
views
56
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
142,411
views
views
57
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
141,920
views
views
58
Harlan Coben
American writer
140,014
views
views
59
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
137,256
views
views
60
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
136,162
views
views
61
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
135,996
views
views
62
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
135,941
views
views
63
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
135,902
views
views
64
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
133,627
views
views
65
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
131,068
views
views
66
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
130,862
views
views
67
Lee Child
British thriller writer (born 1954)
129,307
views
views
68
David Walliams
English actor, comedian and writer
129,274
views
views
69
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
128,607
views
views
70
Annie Dillard
American writer (1945–2026)
126,357
views
views
71
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
124,564
views
views
72
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
123,690
views
views
73
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
123,609
views
views
74
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
122,183
views
views
75
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
119,822
views
views
76
Bonnie Greer
American-British playwright, novelist and broadcaster (1948–2026)
119,009
views
views
77
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
118,582
views
views
78
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
117,672
views
views
79
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
117,106
views
views
80
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
116,913
views
views
81
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
114,362
views
views
82
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
113,964
views
views
83
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
113,616
views
views
84
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
113,443
views
views
85
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
112,907
views
views
86
Eric Idle
British comedian, actor and writer (born 1943)
112,784
views
views
87
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
111,959
views
views
88
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
111,553
views
views
89
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
109,905
views
views
90
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
108,853
views
views
91
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
107,994
views
views
92
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
107,856
views
views
93
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
105,000
views
views
94
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
104,450
views
views
95
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
102,498
views
views
96
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
101,384
views
views
97
Guy de Maupassant
French writer (1850-1893)
101,197
views
views
98
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
100,115
views
views
99
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
99,992
views
views
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