Trending Novelists of all time
The 100 most-viewed novelists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain.
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2,944,946
Total Views (of all time)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
80,632
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2
Justine Musk
Canadian author (born 1972)
69,935
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3
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969–2026)
63,934
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views
4
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
58,608
views
views
5
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
58,146
views
views
6
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
56,196
views
views
7
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
54,803
views
views
8
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
54,020
views
views
9
Harlan Coben
American writer
52,108
views
views
10
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
51,089
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views
11
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
46,849
views
views
12
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
45,772
views
views
13
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
44,689
views
views
14
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
43,640
views
views
15
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
43,332
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views
16
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
42,066
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views
17
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
41,930
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views
18
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
41,214
views
views
19
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
40,637
views
views
20
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
39,942
views
views
21
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
39,400
views
views
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
37,979
views
views
23
Amy Sedaris
American comedian and actor
37,552
views
views
24
Janis Ian
American singer-songwriter
37,209
views
views
25
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
36,369
views
views
26
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
36,200
views
views
27
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
35,389
views
views
28
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
34,141
views
views
29
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
34,067
views
views
30
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
33,771
views
views
31
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
33,319
views
views
32
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
32,298
views
views
33
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
31,006
views
views
34
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
29,889
views
views
35
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
29,753
views
views
36
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
29,641
views
views
37
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
29,638
views
views
38
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
29,200
views
views
39
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
27,918
views
views
40
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
27,529
views
views
41
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
27,433
views
views
42
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
26,855
views
views
43
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
26,754
views
views
44
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
26,410
views
views
45
Rupert Everett
British actor
26,080
views
views
46
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
25,950
views
views
47
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
25,948
views
views
48
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
25,601
views
views
49
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
25,493
views
views
50
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
25,481
views
views
51
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
24,954
views
views
52
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
24,473
views
views
53
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
24,378
views
views
54
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
24,125
views
views
55
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
23,997
views
views
56
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
23,495
views
views
57
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
23,409
views
views
58
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
23,248
views
views
59
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
23,094
views
views
60
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
22,711
views
views
61
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
22,646
views
views
62
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
22,504
views
views
63
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
21,928
views
views
64
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
21,829
views
views
65
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
21,781
views
views
66
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
21,746
views
views
67
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
21,440
views
views
68
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
21,320
views
views
69
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
20,857
views
views
70
Stephen Collins
American actor
20,843
views
views
71
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
20,303
views
views
72
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
20,168
views
views
73
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
20,161
views
views
74
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
20,098
views
views
75
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
20,021
views
views
76
Nancy Mitford
British writer
19,475
views
views
77
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
19,102
views
views
78
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
19,068
views
views
79
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
18,664
views
views
80
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
18,425
views
views
81
Charles Bukowski
German-American writer (1920–1994)
18,273
views
views
82
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
18,213
views
views
83
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
17,800
views
views
84
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
17,683
views
views
85
Ann Patchett
American novelist and memoirist
17,647
views
views
86
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
17,312
views
views
87
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
17,259
views
views
88
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
17,229
views
views
89
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
17,195
views
views
90
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
17,186
views
views
91
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
16,948
views
views
92
Dave Eggers
American writer, editor, and publisher
16,926
views
views
93
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
16,859
views
views
94
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
16,805
views
views
95
Gloria Vanderbilt
American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
16,753
views
views
96
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
16,661
views
views
97
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
16,244
views
views
98
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
16,077
views
views
99
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
16,065
views
views
100
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
15,733
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