Trending Novelists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed novelists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Ranked
3,697,167
Total Views (this month)
1
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
129,354
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2
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
125,555
views
views
3
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
113,590
views
views
4
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
76,622
views
views
5
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
73,130
views
views
6
Harlan Coben
American writer
69,656
views
views
7
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
64,995
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views
8
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
60,418
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views
9
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
57,918
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views
10
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
55,806
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views
11
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
52,036
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views
12
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
51,893
views
views
13
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
51,478
views
views
14
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
51,218
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views
15
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
51,126
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views
16
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
50,338
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views
17
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
49,949
views
views
18
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
49,132
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views
19
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
48,244
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views
20
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
47,732
views
views
21
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
47,435
views
views
22
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
44,769
views
views
23
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
43,452
views
views
24
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
43,130
views
views
25
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
42,365
views
views
26
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
42,346
views
views
27
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
42,337
views
views
28
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
41,894
views
views
29
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
39,389
views
views
30
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
38,996
views
views
31
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
37,783
views
views
32
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
37,626
views
views
33
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
37,107
views
views
34
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
36,857
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views
35
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
36,683
views
views
36
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
35,425
views
views
37
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
35,344
views
views
38
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
35,255
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views
39
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
35,193
views
views
40
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
35,041
views
views
41
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
34,965
views
views
42
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
34,629
views
views
43
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
34,582
views
views
44
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
34,358
views
views
45
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
32,744
views
views
46
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
32,650
views
views
47
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
32,509
views
views
48
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
31,900
views
views
49
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
31,564
views
views
50
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
31,475
views
views
51
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
31,368
views
views
52
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
30,765
views
views
53
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
30,606
views
views
54
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
30,540
views
views
55
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
30,117
views
views
56
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
30,056
views
views
57
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
29,495
views
views
58
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
29,287
views
views
59
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
29,143
views
views
60
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
29,001
views
views
61
Divya Prakash Dubey
Indian Hindi author
28,999
views
views
62
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
27,492
views
views
63
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
27,449
views
views
64
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
26,961
views
views
65
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
26,170
views
views
66
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
26,070
views
views
67
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
25,971
views
views
68
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
25,784
views
views
69
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
25,718
views
views
70
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
25,509
views
views
71
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
25,456
views
views
72
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
25,028
views
views
73
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
24,721
views
views
74
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
24,684
views
views
75
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
24,530
views
views
76
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
24,521
views
views
77
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
24,427
views
views
78
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
24,411
views
views
79
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
24,403
views
views
80
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
23,962
views
views
81
Anne Rice
American writer
23,867
views
views
82
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
23,653
views
views
83
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
23,101
views
views
84
Issei Sagawa
Japanese author, murderer (1949-2022)
22,851
views
views
85
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
22,490
views
views
86
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
22,323
views
views
87
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
22,177
views
views
88
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
22,149
views
views
89
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
21,779
views
views
90
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
21,372
views
views
91
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
21,315
views
views
92
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
21,124
views
views
93
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
20,994
views
views
94
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
20,988
views
views
95
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
20,980
views
views
96
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
20,925
views
views
97
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
20,767
views
views
98
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
20,589
views
views
99
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
20,555
views
views
100
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
20,531
views
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