Trending Novelists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain.
100
Ranked
5,628,592
Total Views (this year)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
156,346
views
views
2
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
153,825
views
views
3
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
143,238
views
views
4
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
121,942
views
views
5
Harlan Coben
American writer
111,491
views
views
6
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
108,600
views
views
7
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
97,761
views
views
8
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
89,381
views
views
9
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
89,238
views
views
10
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
86,860
views
views
11
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
86,225
views
views
12
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
86,084
views
views
13
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
84,908
views
views
14
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
81,583
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
79,190
views
views
16
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
75,149
views
views
17
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
73,654
views
views
18
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
73,583
views
views
19
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
71,463
views
views
20
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
68,851
views
views
21
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
68,745
views
views
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
67,445
views
views
23
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
65,781
views
views
24
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
65,531
views
views
25
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
63,958
views
views
26
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
62,822
views
views
27
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
62,108
views
views
28
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
60,354
views
views
29
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
60,258
views
views
30
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
60,207
views
views
31
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
60,094
views
views
32
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
58,804
views
views
33
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
58,588
views
views
34
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
58,367
views
views
35
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
58,024
views
views
36
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
57,015
views
views
37
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
56,673
views
views
38
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
55,200
views
views
39
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
54,143
views
views
40
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
53,608
views
views
41
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
52,666
views
views
42
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
52,601
views
views
43
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
52,382
views
views
44
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
51,236
views
views
45
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
50,540
views
views
46
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
50,381
views
views
47
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
50,176
views
views
48
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
49,598
views
views
49
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
48,962
views
views
50
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
48,503
views
views
51
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
48,054
views
views
52
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
47,870
views
views
53
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
47,515
views
views
54
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
47,489
views
views
55
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
47,028
views
views
56
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
46,770
views
views
57
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
46,574
views
views
58
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
46,059
views
views
59
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
45,045
views
views
60
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
44,879
views
views
61
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
44,779
views
views
62
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
43,536
views
views
63
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
43,519
views
views
64
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
43,488
views
views
65
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
43,235
views
views
66
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
42,416
views
views
67
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
41,689
views
views
68
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
41,511
views
views
69
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
41,483
views
views
70
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
41,314
views
views
71
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
40,541
views
views
72
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
40,202
views
views
73
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
40,151
views
views
74
Stephen Collins
American actor
39,675
views
views
75
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
39,391
views
views
76
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
39,083
views
views
77
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
39,005
views
views
78
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
38,914
views
views
79
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
38,191
views
views
80
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
38,007
views
views
81
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
37,448
views
views
82
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
37,130
views
views
83
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
36,639
views
views
84
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
35,875
views
views
85
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
35,319
views
views
86
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
35,101
views
views
87
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
34,843
views
views
88
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
34,817
views
views
89
Anne Rice
American writer
34,740
views
views
90
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
34,728
views
views
91
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
34,690
views
views
92
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
34,465
views
views
93
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
33,527
views
views
94
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
33,367
views
views
95
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
32,842
views
views
96
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
32,688
views
views
97
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
32,273
views
views
98
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
32,265
views
views
99
Rupert Everett
British actor
32,240
views
views
100
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
32,040
views
views
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