Trending Novelists in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed novelists this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Tennessee Williams.
100
Ranked
1,449,691
Total Views (this week)
1
Tennessee Williams
American playwright (1911–1983)
131,895
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2
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
33,005
views
views
3
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
31,494
views
views
4
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
30,572
views
views
5
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
29,112
views
views
6
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
28,868
views
views
7
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
27,200
views
views
8
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
23,184
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views
9
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
22,982
views
views
10
Rupert Everett
British actor
22,277
views
views
11
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
22,139
views
views
12
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
21,217
views
views
13
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
20,017
views
views
14
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
20,013
views
views
15
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
19,581
views
views
16
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
18,861
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views
17
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
18,768
views
views
18
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
18,465
views
views
19
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
18,022
views
views
20
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
17,999
views
views
21
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
17,875
views
views
22
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
17,712
views
views
23
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
16,808
views
views
24
Craig Ferguson
British actor
16,014
views
views
25
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
14,989
views
views
26
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
14,757
views
views
27
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
14,609
views
views
28
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
14,583
views
views
29
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
14,200
views
views
30
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
14,032
views
views
31
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
13,950
views
views
32
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
13,872
views
views
33
Jill Gascoine
British actress and novelist (1937-2020)
13,689
views
views
34
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
13,537
views
views
35
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
13,534
views
views
36
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
13,514
views
views
37
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
13,460
views
views
38
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
13,430
views
views
39
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
13,326
views
views
40
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
12,820
views
views
41
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
12,628
views
views
42
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
12,584
views
views
43
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
12,460
views
views
44
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
12,213
views
views
45
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
11,696
views
views
46
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
11,492
views
views
47
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
11,438
views
views
48
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
11,401
views
views
49
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
11,229
views
views
50
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
11,209
views
views
51
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
11,012
views
views
52
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
10,852
views
views
53
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
10,756
views
views
54
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
10,724
views
views
55
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
10,667
views
views
56
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
10,570
views
views
57
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
10,512
views
views
58
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
10,490
views
views
59
Will Self
English writer and journalist (born 1961)
10,433
views
views
60
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
10,404
views
views
61
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
10,375
views
views
62
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
10,341
views
views
63
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
10,338
views
views
64
Al Roker
American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author (born 1954)
10,284
views
views
65
Stephen Collins
American actor
10,279
views
views
66
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
9,954
views
views
67
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
9,877
views
views
68
Jilly Cooper
British writer (1937–2025)
9,777
views
views
69
Andrew Robinson
American actor and professor
9,756
views
views
70
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
9,662
views
views
71
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
9,554
views
views
72
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
9,549
views
views
73
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
9,544
views
views
74
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
9,526
views
views
75
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
9,480
views
views
76
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
9,415
views
views
77
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
9,319
views
views
78
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
9,281
views
views
79
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
9,081
views
views
80
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
9,010
views
views
81
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
8,766
views
views
82
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
8,736
views
views
83
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
8,731
views
views
84
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
8,725
views
views
85
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
8,697
views
views
86
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
8,688
views
views
87
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
8,520
views
views
88
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
8,449
views
views
89
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
8,198
views
views
90
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
8,185
views
views
91
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
8,070
views
views
92
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
7,995
views
views
93
Terry Pratchett
English fantasy author (1948–2015)
7,995
views
views
94
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
7,991
views
views
95
Nora Ephron
American film director and writer (1941–2012)
7,924
views
views
96
Dawn French
British actress, comedian and writer (born 1957)
7,888
views
views
97
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
7,715
views
views
98
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
7,699
views
views
99
Billy Dee Williams
American actor (born 1937)
7,591
views
views
100
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
7,574
views
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