Trending Novelists in Russia — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Alexander Pushkin. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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1,340,859
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
98,391
views
views
2
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
45,578
views
views
3
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
38,787
views
views
4
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
36,079
views
views
5
Victor Pelevin
Russian author (born 1962)
31,833
views
views
6
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Russian writer and journalist
28,664
views
views
7
Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
27,680
views
views
8
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
27,318
views
views
9
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
26,585
views
views
10
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
26,562
views
views
11
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
25,152
views
views
12
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
23,887
views
views
13
Aleksey Tolstoy
Russian-Soviet writer (1883-1945)
22,827
views
views
14
Erich Maria Remarque
German-born novelist (1898–1970)
21,793
views
views
15
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
21,173
views
views
16
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
20,783
views
views
17
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
20,600
views
views
18
Ivan Turgenev
Russian writer (1818–1883)
19,364
views
views
19
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
19,222
views
views
20
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
18,273
views
views
21
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
18,177
views
views
22
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
18,058
views
views
23
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
18,005
views
views
24
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
16,083
views
views
25
Aleksandr Kuprin
Russian writer (1870–1938)
15,880
views
views
26
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
15,812
views
views
27
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
15,759
views
views
28
Zakhar Prilepin
Russian writer and politician (born 1975)
15,398
views
views
29
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
14,667
views
views
30
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
13,548
views
views
31
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
12,833
views
views
32
Bulat Okudzhava
Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924–1997)
12,648
views
views
33
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
12,492
views
views
34
Chingiz Aĭtmatov
Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)
12,200
views
views
35
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
12,113
views
views
36
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
12,047
views
views
37
Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
11,654
views
views
38
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
11,551
views
views
39
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
10,883
views
views
40
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
10,818
views
views
41
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
10,735
views
views
42
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
10,481
views
views
43
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
10,338
views
views
44
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
9,586
views
views
45
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
9,570
views
views
46
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
9,532
views
views
47
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
9,347
views
views
48
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,341
views
views
49
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
9,113
views
views
50
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
9,094
views
views
51
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
8,530
views
views
52
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
8,438
views
views
53
Lee Child
British thriller writer (born 1954)
8,425
views
views
54
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
8,367
views
views
55
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
8,350
views
views
56
Andrei Platonov
Russian author (1899–1951)
8,312
views
views
57
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
8,305
views
views
58
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
8,275
views
views
59
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright
8,265
views
views
60
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
8,229
views
views
61
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
8,223
views
views
62
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
8,190
views
views
63
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
8,171
views
views
64
Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet-Russian writer (1932-2009)
8,156
views
views
65
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
8,155
views
views
66
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
8,018
views
views
67
Yulia Latynina
Russian writer and journalist
7,971
views
views
68
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
7,798
views
views
69
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
7,684
views
views
70
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
7,610
views
views
71
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
7,610
views
views
72
Valentin Kataev
Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)
7,593
views
views
73
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
7,569
views
views
74
Carlos Castañeda
Peruvian-American author (1925-1998)
7,531
views
views
75
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
7,451
views
views
76
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
7,196
views
views
77
Mikhail Elizarov
Russian writer and musician
7,097
views
views
78
Hugh Howey
American fiction writer (born 1975)
7,087
views
views
79
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
6,994
views
views
80
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist, essayist
6,910
views
views
81
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952) (74 years)
6,876
views
views
82
Dan Brown
American novelist (born 1964)
6,815
views
views
83
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
6,634
views
views
84
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
6,629
views
views
85
Stephenie Meyer
American author
6,577
views
views
86
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
6,528
views
views
87
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
6,486
views
views
88
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author (1884–1937)
6,467
views
views
89
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
6,393
views
views
90
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
6,377
views
views
91
Alexander Grin
Russian writer (1880–1932)
6,227
views
views
92
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)
6,194
views
views
93
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
6,092
views
views
94
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
6,077
views
views
95
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
5,975
views
views
96
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
5,957
views
views
97
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
5,954
views
views
98
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
5,933
views
views
99
Viktor Suvorov
Soviet and Russian writer
5,924
views
views
100
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
5,920
views
views
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