Trending Novelists this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
2,733,714
Total Views (this year)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
88,092
views
views
2
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
56,839
views
views
3
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
55,763
views
views
4
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
53,900
views
views
5
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
50,920
views
views
6
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
49,177
views
views
7
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
48,913
views
views
8
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
48,174
views
views
9
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
46,979
views
views
10
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
44,542
views
views
11
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
43,886
views
views
12
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
41,192
views
views
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
40,879
views
views
14
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
40,053
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
39,689
views
views
16
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
39,212
views
views
17
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
38,596
views
views
18
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
38,263
views
views
19
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
36,278
views
views
20
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
36,087
views
views
21
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
34,580
views
views
22
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
34,043
views
views
23
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
33,023
views
views
24
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
32,937
views
views
25
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
31,523
views
views
26
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
30,857
views
views
27
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
30,015
views
views
28
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
29,788
views
views
29
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
29,598
views
views
30
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
28,903
views
views
31
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
28,564
views
views
32
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
28,352
views
views
33
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
28,313
views
views
34
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
27,958
views
views
35
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
27,842
views
views
36
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
27,500
views
views
37
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
27,101
views
views
38
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
27,035
views
views
39
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
26,059
views
views
40
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
25,969
views
views
41
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
25,085
views
views
42
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
24,829
views
views
43
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
24,460
views
views
44
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
24,419
views
views
45
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
24,398
views
views
46
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
24,324
views
views
47
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
24,244
views
views
48
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
23,934
views
views
49
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
23,901
views
views
50
Stephen Collins
American actor
23,747
views
views
51
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
23,726
views
views
52
Rupert Everett
British actor
23,583
views
views
53
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
23,373
views
views
54
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
23,081
views
views
55
Craig Ferguson
British actor
23,076
views
views
56
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
22,732
views
views
57
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
22,729
views
views
58
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
22,545
views
views
59
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
22,524
views
views
60
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
21,765
views
views
61
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
21,359
views
views
62
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
21,090
views
views
63
Lauren Weisberger
American author
21,017
views
views
64
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
20,841
views
views
65
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
20,818
views
views
66
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
20,741
views
views
67
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
20,632
views
views
68
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
20,447
views
views
69
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
20,406
views
views
70
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
20,072
views
views
71
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
19,908
views
views
72
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
19,760
views
views
73
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
19,715
views
views
74
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
19,076
views
views
75
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
18,955
views
views
76
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
18,949
views
views
77
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
18,769
views
views
78
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
18,682
views
views
79
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
18,358
views
views
80
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
18,020
views
views
81
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
17,891
views
views
82
Jill Gascoine
British actress and novelist (1937-2020)
17,821
views
views
83
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
17,684
views
views
84
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
17,206
views
views
85
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
17,139
views
views
86
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
17,091
views
views
87
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
17,080
views
views
88
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
16,948
views
views
89
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
16,932
views
views
90
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
16,859
views
views
91
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
16,856
views
views
92
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
16,837
views
views
93
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
16,600
views
views
94
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
16,413
views
views
95
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
16,406
views
views
96
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
16,354
views
views
97
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
16,327
views
views
98
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
15,978
views
views
99
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
15,927
views
views
100
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
15,881
views
views
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