Trending Novelists this week
The 100 most-viewed novelists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tennessee Williams.
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Ranked
1,786,843
Total Views (this week)
1
Tennessee Williams
American playwright (1911–1983)
163,171
views
views
2
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
41,959
views
views
3
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
35,410
views
views
4
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
34,411
views
views
5
Rupert Everett
British actor
34,406
views
views
6
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
33,654
views
views
7
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
33,536
views
views
8
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
29,643
views
views
9
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
28,352
views
views
10
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
28,044
views
views
11
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
25,989
views
views
12
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
23,691
views
views
13
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
23,689
views
views
14
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
23,348
views
views
15
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
22,973
views
views
16
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
22,846
views
views
17
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
22,800
views
views
18
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
22,353
views
views
19
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
22,153
views
views
20
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
21,223
views
views
21
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
20,509
views
views
22
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
20,320
views
views
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
19,599
views
views
24
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
19,570
views
views
25
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
19,236
views
views
26
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
19,144
views
views
27
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
19,124
views
views
28
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
18,970
views
views
29
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
18,472
views
views
30
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
17,606
views
views
31
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
17,342
views
views
32
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
16,900
views
views
33
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
16,672
views
views
34
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
16,517
views
views
35
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
16,483
views
views
36
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
16,446
views
views
37
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
16,407
views
views
38
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
16,192
views
views
39
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
16,122
views
views
40
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
15,810
views
views
41
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
15,771
views
views
42
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
15,649
views
views
43
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
15,606
views
views
44
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
15,588
views
views
45
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
15,503
views
views
46
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
15,427
views
views
47
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
15,263
views
views
48
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
15,171
views
views
49
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
14,134
views
views
50
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
14,079
views
views
51
Jill Gascoine
British actress and novelist (1937-2020)
14,016
views
views
52
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
13,915
views
views
53
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
13,900
views
views
54
Craig Ferguson
British actor
13,845
views
views
55
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
13,550
views
views
56
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
13,287
views
views
57
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
13,031
views
views
58
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
12,990
views
views
59
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
12,913
views
views
60
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
12,857
views
views
61
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
12,747
views
views
62
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
12,624
views
views
63
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
12,563
views
views
64
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
12,417
views
views
65
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
12,407
views
views
66
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
12,406
views
views
67
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
12,346
views
views
68
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
12,242
views
views
69
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
12,217
views
views
70
Stephen Collins
American actor
12,100
views
views
71
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
12,067
views
views
72
Pauline Fourès
French painter (1778-1869)
11,993
views
views
73
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
11,943
views
views
74
Al Roker
American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author (born 1954)
11,873
views
views
75
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
11,745
views
views
76
Will Self
English writer and journalist (born 1961)
11,743
views
views
77
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
11,627
views
views
78
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
11,522
views
views
79
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
11,405
views
views
80
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
11,329
views
views
81
Ann Patchett
American novelist and memoirist
11,303
views
views
82
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
11,203
views
views
83
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
11,148
views
views
84
Jilly Cooper
British writer (1937–2025)
11,105
views
views
85
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
11,003
views
views
86
Andrew Robinson
American actor and professor
10,922
views
views
87
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
10,677
views
views
88
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
10,637
views
views
89
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
10,619
views
views
90
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
10,598
views
views
91
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
10,518
views
views
92
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
10,150
views
views
93
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
10,064
views
views
94
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
9,863
views
views
95
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
9,827
views
views
96
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
9,769
views
views
97
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
9,752
views
views
98
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
9,749
views
views
99
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
9,533
views
views
100
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
9,500
views
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