Trending Novelists in Germany — the 7 days to 29 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 29 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: William Shatner. Data as of 29 October 2026.
- Source
- Wikipedia pageviews — complete hourly data from Wikimedia (CC0)
- Window
- the 7 days to 29 October 2026 · Data as of 29 October 2026
- Showing
- 100 novelists — drawn from 2,681,455 articles Wikipedia recorded views for in this window
This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the German-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Germany. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
Where this data comes from ›100
Ranked
418,243
Total Views (the 7 days to 29 October 2026)
1
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
17,186
views
views
2
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
15,723
views
views
3
Ryū Murakami
Japanese novelist, film director, and screenwriter (1952–2026)
13,895
views
views
4
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
11,406
views
views
5
Jenny Erpenbeck
German opera director and writer (born 1967)
10,232
views
views
6
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
9,949
views
views
7
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,754
views
views
8
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
8,658
views
views
9
Lisa Eckhart
Austrian entertainer, literary standup comedian, novelist and former poetry slammer
8,234
views
views
10
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
7,610
views
views
11
James Doohan
Canadian actor (1920–2005)
7,227
views
views
12
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
6,361
views
views
13
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
6,268
views
views
14
Ferdinand von Schirach
German lawyer and author of crime novels
6,230
views
views
15
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
5,978
views
views
16
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
5,917
views
views
17
Klaus Mann
German writer (1906–1949)
5,804
views
views
18
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
5,486
views
views
19
Sarah J. Maas
American fantasy writer
5,464
views
views
20
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
5,454
views
views
21
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,328
views
views
22
Erich Kästner
German children's writer (1899–1974)
5,278
views
views
23
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
5,236
views
views
24
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
4,873
views
views
25
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
4,844
views
views
26
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
4,804
views
views
27
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
4,670
views
views
28
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
4,620
views
views
29
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
4,527
views
views
30
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
4,477
views
views
31
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
4,277
views
views
32
Jean Paul
German Romantic writer (1763-1825)
4,104
views
views
33
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
4,077
views
views
34
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
4,068
views
views
35
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
4,057
views
views
36
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
4,057
views
views
37
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
3,981
views
views
38
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
3,784
views
views
39
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
3,724
views
views
40
Heinrich Böll
German writer (1917–1985)
3,693
views
views
41
David Walliams
English actor, comedian and writer
3,672
views
views
42
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
3,634
views
views
43
Oliver Wnuk
German actor and writer
3,495
views
views
44
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
3,492
views
views
45
Jane Asher
English actress and author
3,454
views
views
46
Günter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
3,440
views
views
47
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
3,403
views
views
48
Karl May
German writer (1842–1912)
3,188
views
views
49
Martin Suter
Swiss writer, playwright, screenwriter and publicist
3,186
views
views
50
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
3,156
views
views
51
Eva Menasse
Austrian writer (novelist, satirist and essayist)
3,135
views
views
52
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
3,016
views
views
53
Hamed Abdel-Samad
German political scientist and historian
3,005
views
views
54
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
3,002
views
views
55
Heinrich von Kleist
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)
2,959
views
views
56
Theodor Fontane
German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
2,945
views
views
57
E. T. A. Hoffmann
German writer (1776-1822)
2,887
views
views
58
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
2,882
views
views
59
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
2,870
views
views
60
Barbara Barrie
American actress and author (1931–2026)
2,846
views
views
61
Gene Roddenberry
American television screenwriter and producer (1921–1991)
2,800
views
views
62
Botho Strauss
German playwright, novelist, and essayist
2,789
views
views
63
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
2,775
views
views
64
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
2,730
views
views
65
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
2,719
views
views
66
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
2,708
views
views
67
Erich Maria Remarque
German-born novelist (1898–1970)
2,674
views
views
68
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
2,572
views
views
69
Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld
German writer and poet (1815-1876)
2,550
views
views
70
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
2,542
views
views
71
Heinrich Mann
German writer (1871–1950)
2,502
views
views
72
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
2,473
views
views
73
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
2,434
views
views
74
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
2,425
views
views
75
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
2,404
views
views
76
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
2,397
views
views
77
Gerhart Hauptmann
German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
2,381
views
views
78
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
2,368
views
views
79
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889–1963)
2,354
views
views
80
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
2,343
views
views
81
Max Frisch
Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991)
2,296
views
views
82
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
2,291
views
views
83
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
2,271
views
views
84
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
2,267
views
views
85
Harlan Coben
American writer
2,250
views
views
86
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
2,230
views
views
87
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
2,188
views
views
88
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
2,151
views
views
89
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
2,144
views
views
90
Elizabeth Gilbert
American writer
2,105
views
views
91
Charles Bukowski
German-American writer (1920–1994)
2,057
views
views
92
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
German composer and writer (1797–1848)
2,051
views
views
93
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
2,028
views
views
94
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
2,025
views
views
95
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
2,016
views
views
96
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
2,011
views
views
97
Daniel Kehlmann
German-language novelist (born 1975)
1,994
views
views
98
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
1,989
views
views
99
Dan Brown
American novelist (born 1964)
1,980
views
views
100
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
1,977
views
views
Also trending in Germany
🗳️ Politicians
🌐 Diplomats
🎖️ Officers
🪖 Soldiers
⚖️ Lawyers
🎭 Actors
🎵 Musicians
🎤 Singers
🎼 Composers
🎥 Filmmakers
🎬 Film Directors
🎨 Painters
📜 Poets
📰 Journalists
📚 Historians
🗣️ Linguists
🔬 Scientists
⚛️ Physicists
🧪 Chemists
📐 Mathematicians
⚙️ Engineers
🩺 Physicians
📊 Economists
💻 Programmers