Trending Novelists in USA — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 99 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Russell Brand. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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2,815,275
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
98,657
views
views
2
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
77,515
views
views
3
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
76,404
views
views
4
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
74,644
views
views
5
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
74,134
views
views
6
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
68,776
views
views
7
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
52,948
views
views
8
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
50,002
views
views
9
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
45,813
views
views
10
Ryū Murakami
Japanese novelist, film director, and screenwriter (1952–2026)
45,088
views
views
11
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
44,978
views
views
12
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
44,786
views
views
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
44,319
views
views
14
Cathy Ames
fictional character of John Steinbeck
43,720
views
views
15
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
40,673
views
views
16
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
40,174
views
views
17
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
39,629
views
views
18
Sally Rooney
Irish author
37,551
views
views
19
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
37,399
views
views
20
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
35,724
views
views
21
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
35,432
views
views
22
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
35,232
views
views
23
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952) (74 years)
34,652
views
views
24
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
33,863
views
views
25
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
33,225
views
views
26
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
32,952
views
views
27
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
32,426
views
views
28
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
32,165
views
views
29
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
31,775
views
views
30
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
31,238
views
views
31
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
29,973
views
views
32
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
29,862
views
views
33
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
29,763
views
views
34
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
29,390
views
views
35
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
29,341
views
views
36
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
27,276
views
views
37
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
27,174
views
views
38
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
26,687
views
views
39
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
25,844
views
views
40
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
25,482
views
views
41
David Walliams
English actor, comedian and writer
25,419
views
views
42
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
25,076
views
views
43
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
24,581
views
views
44
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
24,295
views
views
45
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
23,579
views
views
46
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
23,578
views
views
47
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
23,400
views
views
48
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
23,166
views
views
49
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
23,013
views
views
50
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
22,945
views
views
51
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
22,770
views
views
52
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
22,699
views
views
53
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
22,535
views
views
54
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
22,106
views
views
55
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
22,104
views
views
56
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
22,009
views
views
57
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
21,836
views
views
58
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
21,827
views
views
59
Jeffrey Archer
English author and politician (1940–2026)
21,146
views
views
60
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
21,042
views
views
61
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
20,716
views
views
62
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
20,021
views
views
63
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
19,935
views
views
64
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
19,721
views
views
65
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
19,717
views
views
66
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
19,536
views
views
67
Mick Herron
British novelist
19,302
views
views
68
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
18,737
views
views
69
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
18,622
views
views
70
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
18,521
views
views
71
Bram Stoker
Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
18,035
views
views
72
Chris Colfer
actor, singer, book author
17,751
views
views
73
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
17,712
views
views
74
Meera Syal
English author and actress
17,657
views
views
75
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
17,577
views
views
76
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
17,355
views
views
77
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
17,166
views
views
78
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
17,138
views
views
79
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
17,055
views
views
80
John le Carré
British novelist and spy (1931–2020)
16,794
views
views
81
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
16,728
views
views
82
Sarah J. Maas
American fantasy writer
16,720
views
views
83
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
16,627
views
views
84
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
16,451
views
views
85
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
16,427
views
views
86
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
16,365
views
views
87
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)
16,337
views
views
88
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
15,986
views
views
89
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
15,894
views
views
90
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
15,861
views
views
91
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
15,815
views
views
92
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
15,509
views
views
93
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
15,495
views
views
94
Charles Bukowski
German-American writer (1920–1994)
15,227
views
views
95
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
15,147
views
views
96
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
15,137
views
views
97
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
14,976
views
views
98
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
14,858
views
views
99
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
14,835
views
views
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