Trending Novelists — the 12 months to October 2026
The 99 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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26,601,261
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
1,051,994
views
views
2
Chiyo Uno
Japanese writer (1897-1996)
768,015
views
views
3
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
635,432
views
views
4
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
518,200
views
views
5
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
482,350
views
views
6
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
476,391
views
views
7
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
457,642
views
views
8
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
449,093
views
views
9
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
445,578
views
views
10
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
444,759
views
views
11
Sora Hokimoto
Japanese film director, musician and novelist
444,038
views
views
12
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
415,111
views
views
13
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
405,637
views
views
14
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
405,166
views
views
15
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
401,743
views
views
16
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
398,854
views
views
17
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
381,682
views
views
18
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
371,261
views
views
19
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
360,647
views
views
20
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
347,818
views
views
21
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
346,292
views
views
22
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
343,411
views
views
23
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
340,763
views
views
24
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
314,634
views
views
25
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
310,704
views
views
26
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
309,633
views
views
27
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
306,113
views
views
28
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
303,297
views
views
29
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
303,069
views
views
30
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
300,803
views
views
31
Wendell Berry
American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky (1934-2026)
288,688
views
views
32
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
268,028
views
views
33
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
265,925
views
views
34
Harlan Coben
American writer
265,855
views
views
35
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
258,180
views
views
36
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
257,897
views
views
37
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
247,983
views
views
38
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
245,928
views
views
39
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
242,614
views
views
40
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
242,516
views
views
41
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
241,681
views
views
42
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
241,296
views
views
43
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
238,872
views
views
44
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
235,535
views
views
45
Ryō Asai
Japanese novelist
235,159
views
views
46
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
232,120
views
views
47
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
230,797
views
views
48
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
229,508
views
views
49
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
229,059
views
views
50
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
223,495
views
views
51
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
221,811
views
views
52
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
217,065
views
views
53
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)
216,455
views
views
54
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
214,904
views
views
55
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
214,104
views
views
56
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
213,107
views
views
57
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
210,792
views
views
58
Giovannino Guareschi
Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist (1908-1968)
208,476
views
views
59
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
205,920
views
views
60
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
202,978
views
views
61
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
199,300
views
views
62
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
199,085
views
views
63
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
197,158
views
views
64
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
194,914
views
views
65
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
193,688
views
views
66
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
191,628
views
views
67
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
189,423
views
views
68
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
188,037
views
views
69
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
185,085
views
views
70
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
180,511
views
views
71
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
177,418
views
views
72
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
176,696
views
views
73
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
176,670
views
views
74
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
176,551
views
views
75
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
175,159
views
views
76
Lee Child
British thriller writer (born 1954)
174,930
views
views
77
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
174,835
views
views
78
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
171,668
views
views
79
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
170,909
views
views
80
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
170,358
views
views
81
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
169,792
views
views
82
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
169,030
views
views
83
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
167,233
views
views
84
Augusto Cury
Brazilian writer and psychiatrist
165,453
views
views
85
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
163,680
views
views
86
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
162,500
views
views
87
David Walliams
English actor, comedian and writer
162,386
views
views
88
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
161,585
views
views
89
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
160,535
views
views
90
Stephen Collins
American actor
160,522
views
views
91
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
159,534
views
views
92
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
157,878
views
views
93
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
157,510
views
views
94
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
157,186
views
views
95
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
156,951
views
views
96
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
155,872
views
views
97
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
155,833
views
views
98
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
154,069
views
views
99
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
152,811
views
views
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