Trending Novelists this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain.
100
Ranked
5,916,403
Total Views (this year)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
159,228
views
views
2
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
155,702
views
views
3
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
144,201
views
views
4
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
125,078
views
views
5
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
117,254
views
views
6
Harlan Coben
American writer
113,093
views
views
7
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
100,838
views
views
8
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
94,885
views
views
9
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
93,749
views
views
10
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
92,434
views
views
11
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
92,116
views
views
12
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
89,298
views
views
13
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
87,724
views
views
14
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
87,027
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
84,901
views
views
16
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
78,422
views
views
17
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
77,297
views
views
18
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
76,074
views
views
19
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
75,886
views
views
20
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
75,855
views
views
21
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
73,231
views
views
22
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
71,104
views
views
23
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
70,791
views
views
24
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
69,961
views
views
25
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
68,488
views
views
26
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
65,916
views
views
27
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
65,852
views
views
28
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
64,875
views
views
29
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
64,777
views
views
30
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
64,551
views
views
31
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
64,167
views
views
32
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
63,938
views
views
33
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
63,916
views
views
34
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
63,907
views
views
35
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
61,576
views
views
36
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
61,322
views
views
37
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
59,129
views
views
38
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
59,092
views
views
39
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
58,883
views
views
40
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
57,024
views
views
41
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
55,257
views
views
42
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
55,251
views
views
43
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
54,929
views
views
44
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
53,496
views
views
45
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
53,386
views
views
46
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
52,327
views
views
47
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
51,867
views
views
48
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
51,686
views
views
49
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
51,047
views
views
50
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
50,223
views
views
51
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
50,197
views
views
52
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
49,168
views
views
53
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
49,034
views
views
54
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
48,743
views
views
55
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
48,530
views
views
56
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
48,283
views
views
57
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
47,996
views
views
58
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
47,659
views
views
59
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
47,382
views
views
60
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
47,252
views
views
61
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
46,650
views
views
62
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
46,257
views
views
63
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
46,160
views
views
64
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
45,832
views
views
65
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
45,564
views
views
66
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
44,739
views
views
67
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
44,726
views
views
68
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
44,359
views
views
69
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
44,318
views
views
70
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
43,901
views
views
71
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
43,702
views
views
72
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
43,519
views
views
73
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
42,907
views
views
74
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
42,282
views
views
75
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
41,340
views
views
76
Stephen Collins
American actor
40,372
views
views
77
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
40,244
views
views
78
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
39,909
views
views
79
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
39,615
views
views
80
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
39,603
views
views
81
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
39,596
views
views
82
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
38,268
views
views
83
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
38,049
views
views
84
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
37,583
views
views
85
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
37,555
views
views
86
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
37,532
views
views
87
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
37,238
views
views
88
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
37,041
views
views
89
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
36,989
views
views
90
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
36,195
views
views
91
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
35,699
views
views
92
Anne Rice
American writer
35,319
views
views
93
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
35,211
views
views
94
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
34,948
views
views
95
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
34,650
views
views
96
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
34,586
views
views
97
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
34,514
views
views
98
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
34,336
views
views
99
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
34,273
views
views
100
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
33,547
views
views
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