Trending Novelists this month
The 100 most-viewed novelists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
1,093,197
Total Views (this month)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
67,582
views
views
2
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
52,755
views
views
3
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
20,623
views
views
4
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
20,598
views
views
5
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
19,963
views
views
6
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
18,151
views
views
7
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
17,606
views
views
8
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
17,512
views
views
9
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
16,805
views
views
10
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
16,648
views
views
11
Lauren Weisberger
American author
15,895
views
views
12
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
15,844
views
views
13
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
15,714
views
views
14
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
15,581
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
15,552
views
views
16
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
15,296
views
views
17
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
15,266
views
views
18
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
15,102
views
views
19
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
14,941
views
views
20
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
14,703
views
views
21
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
13,996
views
views
22
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
13,849
views
views
23
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
13,238
views
views
24
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
13,013
views
views
25
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
12,938
views
views
26
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
12,459
views
views
27
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
12,335
views
views
28
Stephen Collins
American actor
11,713
views
views
29
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
11,591
views
views
30
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
11,298
views
views
31
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
11,284
views
views
32
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
11,137
views
views
33
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
11,049
views
views
34
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
10,834
views
views
35
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
10,815
views
views
36
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
10,127
views
views
37
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
9,924
views
views
38
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
9,830
views
views
39
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
9,773
views
views
40
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
9,740
views
views
41
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
9,708
views
views
42
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
9,656
views
views
43
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
9,545
views
views
44
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
9,198
views
views
45
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
9,157
views
views
46
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
9,095
views
views
47
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
9,042
views
views
48
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
8,935
views
views
49
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
8,818
views
views
50
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
8,640
views
views
51
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
8,546
views
views
52
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
8,546
views
views
53
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
8,487
views
views
54
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
8,237
views
views
55
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
8,161
views
views
56
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
8,152
views
views
57
Colleen Hoover
American author
8,025
views
views
58
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
7,888
views
views
59
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
7,882
views
views
60
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
7,831
views
views
61
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
7,777
views
views
62
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
7,746
views
views
63
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
7,714
views
views
64
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
7,711
views
views
65
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
7,660
views
views
66
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
7,499
views
views
67
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
7,406
views
views
68
Anaïs Nin
French-born American author (1903–1977)
7,347
views
views
69
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
7,321
views
views
70
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
7,260
views
views
71
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
7,073
views
views
72
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
6,999
views
views
73
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
6,981
views
views
74
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
6,965
views
views
75
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
6,822
views
views
76
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
6,702
views
views
77
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
6,690
views
views
78
David Malouf
Australian writer
6,689
views
views
79
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
6,527
views
views
80
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
6,518
views
views
81
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
6,500
views
views
82
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
6,472
views
views
83
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
6,469
views
views
84
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
6,466
views
views
85
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer
6,419
views
views
86
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
6,391
views
views
87
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
6,366
views
views
88
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
6,356
views
views
89
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
6,284
views
views
90
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
6,183
views
views
91
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
6,175
views
views
92
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
6,154
views
views
93
Craig Ferguson
British actor
5,936
views
views
94
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
5,890
views
views
95
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
5,889
views
views
96
J. D. Salinger
American author (1919–2010)
5,885
views
views
97
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
5,883
views
views
98
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
5,876
views
views
99
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
5,847
views
views
100
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
5,720
views
views
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