Trending Novelists this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
1,653,192
Total Views (this year)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
77,063
views
views
2
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
53,861
views
views
3
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
29,649
views
views
4
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
28,426
views
views
5
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
28,281
views
views
6
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
27,920
views
views
7
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
27,151
views
views
8
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
26,818
views
views
9
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
26,124
views
views
10
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
25,859
views
views
11
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
25,532
views
views
12
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
25,337
views
views
13
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
24,772
views
views
14
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
24,761
views
views
15
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
24,403
views
views
16
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
23,693
views
views
17
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
22,348
views
views
18
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
22,297
views
views
19
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
22,098
views
views
20
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
21,766
views
views
21
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
21,466
views
views
22
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
21,357
views
views
23
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
20,711
views
views
24
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
20,350
views
views
25
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
20,236
views
views
26
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
19,306
views
views
27
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
18,175
views
views
28
Lauren Weisberger
American author
18,096
views
views
29
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
17,185
views
views
30
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
17,180
views
views
31
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
16,773
views
views
32
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
16,673
views
views
33
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
16,598
views
views
34
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
16,012
views
views
35
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
15,912
views
views
36
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
15,747
views
views
37
Stephen Collins
American actor
15,199
views
views
38
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
15,016
views
views
39
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
14,996
views
views
40
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
14,761
views
views
41
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
14,715
views
views
42
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
14,389
views
views
43
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
14,345
views
views
44
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
14,325
views
views
45
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
14,203
views
views
46
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
14,048
views
views
47
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
13,908
views
views
48
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
13,862
views
views
49
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
13,800
views
views
50
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
13,752
views
views
51
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
13,479
views
views
52
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
13,404
views
views
53
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
13,372
views
views
54
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
13,103
views
views
55
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
13,066
views
views
56
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
12,986
views
views
57
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
12,972
views
views
58
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
12,934
views
views
59
Craig Ferguson
British actor
12,848
views
views
60
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
12,729
views
views
61
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
12,517
views
views
62
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
12,498
views
views
63
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
12,342
views
views
64
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
12,180
views
views
65
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
12,066
views
views
66
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
12,049
views
views
67
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
11,969
views
views
68
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
11,964
views
views
69
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
11,798
views
views
70
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
11,698
views
views
71
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
11,598
views
views
72
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
11,512
views
views
73
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
11,373
views
views
74
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
11,334
views
views
75
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
11,270
views
views
76
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
11,216
views
views
77
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
11,195
views
views
78
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
11,191
views
views
79
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
11,175
views
views
80
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
11,161
views
views
81
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
11,128
views
views
82
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
11,070
views
views
83
Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
11,058
views
views
84
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
10,991
views
views
85
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
10,798
views
views
86
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
10,722
views
views
87
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
10,685
views
views
88
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
10,530
views
views
89
Rupert Everett
British actor
10,505
views
views
90
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
10,293
views
views
91
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
10,292
views
views
92
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
10,162
views
views
93
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
10,069
views
views
94
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
9,949
views
views
95
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
9,941
views
views
96
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
9,877
views
views
97
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
9,843
views
views
98
Colleen Hoover
American author
9,767
views
views
99
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
9,644
views
views
100
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
9,614
views
views
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