Trending Novelists of all time
The 100 most-viewed novelists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Stephen King.
100
Ranked
998,040
Total Views (of all time)
Country
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1
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
60,994
views
views
2
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775β1817)
48,292
views
views
3
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
38,438
views
views
4
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
36,383
views
views
5
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942β2008)
31,828
views
views
6
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933β2023)
31,408
views
views
7
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
29,352
views
views
8
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882β1941)
28,419
views
views
9
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920β2012)
22,219
views
views
10
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802β1885)
21,772
views
views
11
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896β1940)
21,663
views
views
12
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
19,420
views
views
13
Dan Brown
American novelist (born 1964)
18,306
views
views
14
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894β1963)
18,127
views
views
15
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905β1980)
17,217
views
views
16
Rod Serling
American screenwriter (1924β1975)
16,840
views
views
17
John Grisham
American writer (born 1955)
16,757
views
views
18
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
16,356
views
views
19
Alastair Campbell
British director of communications and strategy, journalist, author and broadcaster
15,744
views
views
20
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969β2026)
14,421
views
views
21
Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927β2014)
14,034
views
views
22
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954β2013)
12,947
views
views
23
Ralph Nader
American lawyer and activist (born 1934)
12,404
views
views
24
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
12,358
views
views
25
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
12,234
views
views
26
AnaΓ―s Nin
French-born American author (1903β1977)
11,454
views
views
27
Nicholas Sparks
American writer and novelist
11,394
views
views
28
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer (1857β1924)
10,836
views
views
29
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
9,748
views
views
30
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
9,595
views
views
31
Γmile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840β1902)
9,258
views
views
32
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
9,246
views
views
33
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American author (1804β1864)
8,654
views
views
34
Harlan Coben
American writer
7,910
views
views
35
Orson Scott Card
American science fiction novelist (born 1951)
7,756
views
views
36
Christopher Tolkien
literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924β2020)
7,527
views
views
37
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
7,475
views
views
38
Patricia Cornwell
American novelist, journalist, biographer
7,025
views
views
39
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
7,021
views
views
40
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
6,848
views
views
41
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821β1881)
6,835
views
views
42
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660β1731)
6,615
views
views
43
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956β2016)
6,596
views
views
44
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889β1963)
6,504
views
views
45
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
6,492
views
views
46
Bernard Cornwell
British writer
6,334
views
views
47
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811β1896)
6,120
views
views
48
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
6,106
views
views
49
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899β1961)
6,060
views
views
50
Elmore Leonard
American novelist and screenwriter (1925β2013)
5,902
views
views
51
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924β2024)
5,789
views
views
52
Wilkie Collins
British writer (1824-1889)
5,677
views
views
53
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
5,620
views
views
54
China MiΓ©ville
English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
5,599
views
views
55
Gary Hart
American politician (born 1936)
5,436
views
views
56
James Sie
American actor
5,353
views
views
57
Margaret Mitchell
American author and journalist (1900β1949)
5,245
views
views
58
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist (1821β1880)
5,189
views
views
59
mi tiΓ³ tilin
American journalist (1920β1980)
5,185
views
views
60
Marion Zimmer Bradley
American novelist and editor (1930β1999)
5,102
views
views
61
Percival Everett
American writer (born 1956)
5,098
views
views
62
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916β1990)
5,024
views
views
63
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
64
Carl Hiaasen
American novelist
4,799
views
views
65
Joanne van Os
Australian author of memoir, children's and adult fiction
4,706
views
views
66
Anthony Trollope
English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
4,584
views
views
67
RyΕ«nosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (1892β1927)
4,563
views
views
68
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915β2005)
4,544
views
views
69
Nick Hornby
English novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and film producer (born 1957)
4,463
views
views
70
Sanjay Gupta
American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer
4,296
views
views
71
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932β1963)
4,291
views
views
72
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
4,277
views
views
73
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802β1870)
4,218
views
views
74
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903β1950)
4,102
views
views
75
Divya Prakash Dubey
Indian Hindi author
4,072
views
views
76
Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic (1835β1902)
4,044
views
views
77
Nic Pizzolatto
American writer
4,032
views
views
78
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
3,964
views
views
79
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
3,869
views
views
80
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875β1947)
3,865
views
views
81
Iceberg Slim
American writer and pimp (1918-1992)
3,854
views
views
82
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920β1992)
3,836
views
views
83
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937β2005)
3,827
views
views
84
Justin Kuritzkes
American playwright
3,816
views
views
85
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928β2014)
3,796
views
views
86
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,787
views
views
87
Nigel Planer
English actor, comedian and writer
3,775
views
views
88
Louis-Ferdinand CΓ©line
French writer (1894β1961)
3,771
views
views
89
Georges Simenon
Belgian writer (1903β1986)
3,715
views
views
90
John Berger
British painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)
3,680
views
views
91
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946β2023)
3,670
views
views
92
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905β1982)
3,665
views
views
93
John Green
American author and vlogger
3,592
views
views
94
Sally Burton
British author and theatre producer
3,586
views
views
95
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920β2014)
3,503
views
views
96
Jean Genet
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)
3,482
views
views
97
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic (born 1942)
3,403
views
views
98
Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale
English novelist (1923-2017)
3,397
views
views
99
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949β2022)
3,325
views
views
100
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,319
views
views
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