Trending Novelists this week
The 100 most-viewed novelists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain.
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Ranked
1,788,187
Total Views (this week)
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Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
59,302
views
views
2
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
50,880
views
views
3
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
41,734
views
views
4
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
38,382
views
views
5
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
37,478
views
views
6
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
36,235
views
views
7
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
34,609
views
views
8
Harlan Coben
American writer
30,076
views
views
9
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
28,675
views
views
10
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
28,266
views
views
11
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
27,493
views
views
12
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
27,033
views
views
13
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
26,460
views
views
14
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
26,271
views
views
15
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
25,685
views
views
16
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
25,092
views
views
17
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
25,058
views
views
18
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
24,717
views
views
19
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
24,705
views
views
20
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
24,633
views
views
21
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
23,550
views
views
22
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
23,064
views
views
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
21,890
views
views
24
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
21,858
views
views
25
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
21,513
views
views
26
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
20,987
views
views
27
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
20,986
views
views
28
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
20,748
views
views
29
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
18,980
views
views
30
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
18,834
views
views
31
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
18,092
views
views
32
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
17,941
views
views
33
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
17,777
views
views
34
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
17,753
views
views
35
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
17,446
views
views
36
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
17,408
views
views
37
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
17,136
views
views
38
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
16,876
views
views
39
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
16,814
views
views
40
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
16,592
views
views
41
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
16,517
views
views
42
Divya Prakash Dubey
Indian Hindi author
16,508
views
views
43
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
16,483
views
views
44
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
16,363
views
views
45
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
16,064
views
views
46
Hank Green
American author, vlogger, and science communicator
15,480
views
views
47
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
15,077
views
views
48
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
14,957
views
views
49
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
14,949
views
views
50
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
14,855
views
views
51
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
14,743
views
views
52
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
14,349
views
views
53
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
14,254
views
views
54
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
14,128
views
views
55
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
14,103
views
views
56
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
14,037
views
views
57
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
13,964
views
views
58
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
13,605
views
views
59
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
13,436
views
views
60
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
13,288
views
views
61
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
13,281
views
views
62
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
13,224
views
views
63
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
12,943
views
views
64
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
12,883
views
views
65
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
12,863
views
views
66
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
12,847
views
views
67
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
12,669
views
views
68
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
12,566
views
views
69
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
12,561
views
views
70
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
12,517
views
views
71
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
12,396
views
views
72
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
12,295
views
views
73
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
12,098
views
views
74
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
12,000
views
views
75
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
11,978
views
views
76
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
11,904
views
views
77
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
11,858
views
views
78
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
11,810
views
views
79
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
11,800
views
views
80
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
11,793
views
views
81
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
11,761
views
views
82
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
11,741
views
views
83
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
11,570
views
views
84
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
11,531
views
views
85
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
11,318
views
views
86
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
11,205
views
views
87
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
11,178
views
views
88
A. N. Wilson
British poet, biographer, critic, journalist writer and newspaper columnist (1950-)
10,994
views
views
89
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
10,809
views
views
90
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
10,750
views
views
91
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
10,294
views
views
92
Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
10,260
views
views
93
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
10,243
views
views
94
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
10,111
views
views
95
François Rabelais
16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
10,096
views
views
96
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
10,083
views
views
97
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
9,998
views
views
98
Frank Miller
American writer, artist, film director (born 1957)
9,928
views
views
99
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
9,922
views
views
100
Stephen Collins
American actor
9,920
views
views
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