Trending Novelists this month
The 100 most-viewed novelists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Laura Ingalls Wilder.
100
Ranked
2,923,008
Total Views (this month)
1
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
97,338
views
views
2
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
92,878
views
views
3
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
62,990
views
views
4
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
61,774
views
views
5
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
60,844
views
views
6
Harlan Coben
American writer
54,547
views
views
7
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
51,701
views
views
8
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
47,819
views
views
9
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
47,711
views
views
10
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
47,011
views
views
11
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
46,738
views
views
12
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
45,484
views
views
13
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
45,197
views
views
14
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
42,933
views
views
15
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
42,882
views
views
16
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
41,497
views
views
17
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
40,773
views
views
18
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
40,662
views
views
19
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
40,326
views
views
20
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
39,841
views
views
21
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
39,061
views
views
22
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
38,262
views
views
23
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
35,021
views
views
24
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
34,113
views
views
25
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
33,692
views
views
26
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
33,214
views
views
27
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
31,145
views
views
28
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
30,182
views
views
29
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
29,711
views
views
30
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
29,661
views
views
31
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
29,637
views
views
32
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
29,478
views
views
33
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
29,203
views
views
34
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
29,173
views
views
35
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
28,893
views
views
36
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
28,759
views
views
37
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
28,690
views
views
38
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
28,328
views
views
39
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
28,010
views
views
40
Divya Prakash Dubey
Indian Hindi author
27,887
views
views
41
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
27,246
views
views
42
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
27,133
views
views
43
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
26,983
views
views
44
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
26,683
views
views
45
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
26,194
views
views
46
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
26,174
views
views
47
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
25,486
views
views
48
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
25,310
views
views
49
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
24,746
views
views
50
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
24,556
views
views
51
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
24,415
views
views
52
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
24,142
views
views
53
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
23,776
views
views
54
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
23,764
views
views
55
Bertha von Suttner
Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
23,570
views
views
56
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
23,400
views
views
57
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
23,235
views
views
58
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
23,143
views
views
59
Rose Wilder Lane
American journalist (1886–1968)
22,917
views
views
60
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
22,656
views
views
61
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
22,497
views
views
62
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
21,662
views
views
63
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
21,489
views
views
64
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
21,024
views
views
65
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
20,940
views
views
66
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
20,834
views
views
67
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
20,676
views
views
68
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
20,658
views
views
69
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
20,655
views
views
70
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
20,635
views
views
71
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
20,374
views
views
72
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
20,057
views
views
73
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
20,038
views
views
74
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
19,741
views
views
75
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
19,736
views
views
76
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
19,456
views
views
77
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
19,422
views
views
78
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
19,300
views
views
79
Anne Rice
American writer
19,159
views
views
80
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
18,957
views
views
81
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
18,740
views
views
82
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
18,643
views
views
83
Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
18,562
views
views
84
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
18,211
views
views
85
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
18,122
views
views
86
David Niven
British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
17,842
views
views
87
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
17,834
views
views
88
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
17,707
views
views
89
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
17,563
views
views
90
Robert Shaw
British actor and writer (1927–1978)
17,537
views
views
91
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
17,325
views
views
92
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
17,144
views
views
93
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
16,922
views
views
94
Issei Sagawa
Japanese author, murderer (1949-2022)
16,800
views
views
95
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
16,543
views
views
96
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
16,517
views
views
97
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
16,328
views
views
98
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
16,296
views
views
99
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
16,281
views
views
100
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
16,186
views
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