Trending Novelists in USA — September 2026
The 99 most-viewed novelists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
12,087,209
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
504,020
views
views
2
Wendell Berry
American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky (1934-2026)
273,493
views
views
3
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
244,076
views
views
4
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
240,013
views
views
5
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
238,523
views
views
6
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker (born 1969)
228,866
views
views
7
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
217,413
views
views
8
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
217,347
views
views
9
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
215,753
views
views
10
J. K. Rowling
English author (born 1965)
209,991
views
views
11
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
207,287
views
views
12
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
199,840
views
views
13
Hilary Duff
American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and writer (born 1987)
195,090
views
views
14
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
185,694
views
views
15
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
176,009
views
views
16
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
175,664
views
views
17
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
175,551
views
views
18
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
164,758
views
views
19
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
163,027
views
views
20
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
159,363
views
views
21
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
153,385
views
views
22
Carole Radziwill
American journalist, author
147,930
views
views
23
Bret Easton Ellis
American novelist, screenwriter
143,571
views
views
24
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
141,094
views
views
25
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
140,708
views
views
26
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
138,858
views
views
27
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
138,768
views
views
28
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
136,340
views
views
29
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
133,215
views
views
30
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
131,270
views
views
31
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
127,101
views
views
32
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
125,696
views
views
33
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
120,002
views
views
34
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)
119,848
views
views
35
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
119,241
views
views
36
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
119,212
views
views
37
Bonnie Greer
American-British playwright, novelist and broadcaster (1948–2026)
117,899
views
views
38
David Walliams
English actor, comedian and writer
117,484
views
views
39
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
112,622
views
views
40
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
107,082
views
views
41
Annie Dillard
American writer (1945–2026)
106,397
views
views
42
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
105,706
views
views
43
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
105,311
views
views
44
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality (born 1955)
103,891
views
views
45
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
103,693
views
views
46
Eric Idle
British comedian, actor and writer (born 1943)
102,601
views
views
47
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
101,762
views
views
48
Harlan Coben
American writer
100,117
views
views
49
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
99,682
views
views
50
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
99,663
views
views
51
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
99,657
views
views
52
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
99,440
views
views
53
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
99,362
views
views
54
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
98,159
views
views
55
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
97,797
views
views
56
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
96,593
views
views
57
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
96,405
views
views
58
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
96,167
views
views
59
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
95,985
views
views
60
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
95,218
views
views
61
Lee Child
British thriller writer (born 1954)
94,135
views
views
62
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
93,779
views
views
63
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
91,277
views
views
64
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
89,449
views
views
65
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
89,300
views
views
66
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
89,164
views
views
67
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
89,118
views
views
68
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
88,614
views
views
69
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
85,972
views
views
70
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
85,418
views
views
71
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
83,934
views
views
72
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
82,644
views
views
73
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
81,136
views
views
74
James Patterson
American author
81,060
views
views
75
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
80,223
views
views
76
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
80,109
views
views
77
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
79,562
views
views
78
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
79,405
views
views
79
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
78,706
views
views
80
R.F. Kuang
Chinese-American writer
77,997
views
views
81
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
77,082
views
views
82
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
77,048
views
views
83
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
76,862
views
views
84
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
76,667
views
views
85
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
76,260
views
views
86
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
75,903
views
views
87
Colleen Hoover
American author
75,511
views
views
88
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
75,321
views
views
89
Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
74,309
views
views
90
H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)
74,262
views
views
91
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
73,242
views
views
92
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
73,195
views
views
93
Stephen Collins
American actor
72,046
views
views
94
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
71,890
views
views
95
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
70,919
views
views
96
William Faulkner
American writer (1897-1962)
70,454
views
views
97
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
70,124
views
views
98
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
69,365
views
views
99
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
69,037
views
views
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