Trending Novelists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
3,236,147
Total Views (this year)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
86,549
views
views
2
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
79,186
views
views
3
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
73,175
views
views
4
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
71,290
views
views
5
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
65,467
views
views
6
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
60,913
views
views
7
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
59,865
views
views
8
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
59,730
views
views
9
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
58,652
views
views
10
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
58,115
views
views
11
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
55,227
views
views
12
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
51,109
views
views
13
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
46,039
views
views
14
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
45,313
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
44,648
views
views
16
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
44,282
views
views
17
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
43,827
views
views
18
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
42,901
views
views
19
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
42,265
views
views
20
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
39,377
views
views
21
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
38,137
views
views
22
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
37,342
views
views
23
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
37,160
views
views
24
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
37,031
views
views
25
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
35,728
views
views
26
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
35,360
views
views
27
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
35,307
views
views
28
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
34,075
views
views
29
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
33,665
views
views
30
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
32,941
views
views
31
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
32,364
views
views
32
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
32,361
views
views
33
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
32,306
views
views
34
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
32,042
views
views
35
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
31,901
views
views
36
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
31,818
views
views
37
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
31,609
views
views
38
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
31,533
views
views
39
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
31,494
views
views
40
Rupert Everett
British actor
31,255
views
views
41
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
31,031
views
views
42
Stephen Collins
American actor
30,824
views
views
43
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
29,788
views
views
44
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
29,549
views
views
45
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
29,533
views
views
46
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
28,612
views
views
47
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
28,532
views
views
48
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
28,422
views
views
49
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
28,404
views
views
50
Jill Gascoine
British actress and novelist (1937-2020)
28,318
views
views
51
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
27,821
views
views
52
Craig Ferguson
British actor
27,775
views
views
53
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
27,748
views
views
54
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
27,635
views
views
55
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
26,770
views
views
56
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
26,563
views
views
57
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
26,144
views
views
58
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
26,116
views
views
59
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
25,480
views
views
60
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
25,435
views
views
61
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
25,316
views
views
62
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
25,313
views
views
63
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
24,750
views
views
64
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
24,365
views
views
65
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
24,089
views
views
66
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
23,981
views
views
67
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
23,491
views
views
68
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
23,438
views
views
69
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
23,238
views
views
70
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
23,141
views
views
71
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
23,114
views
views
72
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
22,984
views
views
73
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
22,964
views
views
74
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
22,951
views
views
75
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
22,941
views
views
76
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
22,847
views
views
77
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
22,714
views
views
78
Nora Ephron
American film director and writer (1941–2012)
22,539
views
views
79
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
22,332
views
views
80
Lauren Weisberger
American author
22,288
views
views
81
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
22,156
views
views
82
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
22,090
views
views
83
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
21,400
views
views
84
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
21,388
views
views
85
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
21,332
views
views
86
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
21,315
views
views
87
Mick Foley
American professional wrestler
20,598
views
views
88
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
20,499
views
views
89
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
20,477
views
views
90
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
20,079
views
views
91
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
19,979
views
views
92
Terry Pratchett
English fantasy author (1948–2015)
19,928
views
views
93
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
19,140
views
views
94
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
19,138
views
views
95
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
19,105
views
views
96
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
19,066
views
views
97
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
19,055
views
views
98
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
19,044
views
views
99
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
18,865
views
views
100
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
18,838
views
views
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