Trending Novelists — all time
The 100 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Chiyo Uno. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
14,877,896
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)
645,425
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
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
277,588
views
views
8
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
277,354
views
views
9
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
276,920
views
views
10
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
263,365
views
views
11
Augusto Cury
Brazilian writer and psychiatrist
256,291
views
views
12
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
212,598
views
views
13
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
203,376
views
views
14
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
201,564
views
views
15
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
195,814
views
views
16
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
192,213
views
views
17
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
190,999
views
views
18
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
184,143
views
views
19
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
182,140
views
views
20
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
180,037
views
views
21
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
170,819
views
views
22
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
165,267
views
views
23
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952) (74 years)
163,207
views
views
24
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
163,177
views
views
25
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
161,709
views
views
26
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
156,506
views
views
27
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
155,903
views
views
28
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
154,947
views
views
29
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
154,151
views
views
30
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
152,539
views
views
31
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
151,775
views
views
32
Sally Rooney
Irish author
151,060
views
views
33
Colleen Hoover
American author
148,961
views
views
34
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
147,915
views
views
35
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
147,851
views
views
36
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
146,134
views
views
37
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
142,243
views
views
38
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
141,929
views
views
39
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
138,448
views
views
40
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
135,983
views
views
41
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
132,544
views
views
42
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
131,020
views
views
43
Ahmet Zappa
American musician
130,508
views
views
44
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
129,067
views
views
45
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
128,749
views
views
46
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
123,179
views
views
47
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
120,481
views
views
48
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
120,305
views
views
49
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
119,597
views
views
50
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
119,245
views
views
51
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer (born 1942)
117,103
views
views
52
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
115,496
views
views
53
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
111,663
views
views
54
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
111,176
views
views
55
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
109,483
views
views
56
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
109,179
views
views
57
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
108,494
views
views
58
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
105,683
views
views
59
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
104,841
views
views
60
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
104,222
views
views
61
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
104,093
views
views
62
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
103,479
views
views
63
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
102,840
views
views
64
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
101,255
views
views
65
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
99,867
views
views
66
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
96,390
views
views
67
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
93,663
views
views
68
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
93,337
views
views
69
Harlan Coben
American writer
92,470
views
views
70
Yuu Nagira
Japanese novelist
90,692
views
views
71
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
90,620
views
views
72
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
90,415
views
views
73
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
90,285
views
views
74
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
87,658
views
views
75
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
86,240
views
views
76
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
84,975
views
views
77
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
83,968
views
views
78
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
82,488
views
views
79
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
82,260
views
views
80
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
82,257
views
views
81
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
81,255
views
views
82
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
78,976
views
views
83
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
78,804
views
views
84
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
78,508
views
views
85
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
78,244
views
views
86
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
77,001
views
views
87
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
76,894
views
views
88
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
76,820
views
views
89
Stephen Collins
American actor
76,002
views
views
90
Charles Bukowski
German-American writer (1920–1994)
75,922
views
views
91
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
75,435
views
views
92
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
75,064
views
views
93
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
74,170
views
views
94
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
74,130
views
views
95
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
73,858
views
views
96
Osamu Dazai
Japanese author
73,229
views
views
97
Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
73,031
views
views
98
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
72,970
views
views
99
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
72,745
views
views
100
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
72,582
views
views
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