Trending Novelists — all time
The 99 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Chiyo Uno. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
13,123,718
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Chiyo Uno
Japanese writer (1897-1996)
750,254
views
views
2
Jeffrey Archer
English author and politician (1940–2026)
623,753
views
views
3
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
550,091
views
views
4
Cathy Ames
fictional character of John Steinbeck
410,518
views
views
5
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
348,345
views
views
6
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
321,410
views
views
7
Augusto Cury
Brazilian writer and psychiatrist
244,425
views
views
8
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
213,126
views
views
9
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
201,787
views
views
10
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
201,564
views
views
11
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
191,683
views
views
12
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
190,999
views
views
13
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
184,143
views
views
14
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
182,140
views
views
15
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
180,037
views
views
16
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
174,603
views
views
17
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
165,267
views
views
18
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952) (74 years)
163,207
views
views
19
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
161,709
views
views
20
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
160,777
views
views
21
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
156,506
views
views
22
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
155,903
views
views
23
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
154,151
views
views
24
Colleen Hoover
American author
148,961
views
views
25
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
148,328
views
views
26
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
147,851
views
views
27
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
146,134
views
views
28
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
146,101
views
views
29
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
143,536
views
views
30
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
138,448
views
views
31
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
131,662
views
views
32
Ahmet Zappa
American musician
130,508
views
views
33
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
129,067
views
views
34
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
123,179
views
views
35
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
119,597
views
views
36
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
119,245
views
views
37
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
117,101
views
views
38
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
111,541
views
views
39
Sally Rooney
Irish author
111,219
views
views
40
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
110,361
views
views
41
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
108,494
views
views
42
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
108,346
views
views
43
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
106,795
views
views
44
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
106,253
views
views
45
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
105,683
views
views
46
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
104,093
views
views
47
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
103,479
views
views
48
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
102,463
views
views
49
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
100,663
views
views
50
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
98,441
views
views
51
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
96,974
views
views
52
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
95,523
views
views
53
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer (born 1942)
95,069
views
views
54
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
93,663
views
views
55
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
93,337
views
views
56
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
92,962
views
views
57
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
90,620
views
views
58
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
90,415
views
views
59
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
90,285
views
views
60
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
89,520
views
views
61
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
85,362
views
views
62
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
84,975
views
views
63
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
84,479
views
views
64
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
83,968
views
views
65
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
83,253
views
views
66
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
82,488
views
views
67
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
82,257
views
views
68
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
82,233
views
views
69
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
81,498
views
views
70
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
81,387
views
views
71
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
80,412
views
views
72
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
78,906
views
views
73
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
78,508
views
views
74
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
78,244
views
views
75
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
78,043
views
views
76
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
76,820
views
views
77
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
75,064
views
views
78
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
74,170
views
views
79
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
73,071
views
views
80
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
73,031
views
views
81
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
72,970
views
views
82
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)
72,324
views
views
83
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
71,545
views
views
84
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
68,999
views
views
85
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
68,391
views
views
86
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
67,223
views
views
87
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
66,379
views
views
88
Bram Stoker
Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
65,411
views
views
89
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
65,379
views
views
90
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
64,564
views
views
91
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
64,391
views
views
92
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
64,057
views
views
93
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
62,867
views
views
94
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
62,264
views
views
95
Harlan Coben
American writer
61,512
views
views
96
John Grisham
American writer (born 1955)
61,506
views
views
97
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
61,231
views
views
98
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
61,144
views
views
99
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
61,077
views
views
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