Trending Novelists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed novelists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
974,667
Total Views (this month)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
65,398
views
views
2
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
52,721
views
views
3
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
19,595
views
views
4
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
18,780
views
views
5
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
18,421
views
views
6
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
17,675
views
views
7
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
17,038
views
views
8
Lauren Weisberger
American author
15,570
views
views
9
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
15,539
views
views
10
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
14,620
views
views
11
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
14,567
views
views
12
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
14,416
views
views
13
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
13,237
views
views
14
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
13,090
views
views
15
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
12,969
views
views
16
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
12,932
views
views
17
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
12,160
views
views
18
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
12,156
views
views
19
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
12,066
views
views
20
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
11,558
views
views
21
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
11,552
views
views
22
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
11,500
views
views
23
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
11,499
views
views
24
Stephen Collins
American actor
11,422
views
views
25
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
11,410
views
views
26
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
11,380
views
views
27
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
11,296
views
views
28
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
10,510
views
views
29
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
10,355
views
views
30
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
10,281
views
views
31
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
10,068
views
views
32
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
9,489
views
views
33
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
9,396
views
views
34
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
9,376
views
views
35
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
9,334
views
views
36
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
9,014
views
views
37
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
9,000
views
views
38
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
8,968
views
views
39
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
8,918
views
views
40
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
8,649
views
views
41
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
8,549
views
views
42
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
8,502
views
views
43
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
8,041
views
views
44
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
7,953
views
views
45
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
7,761
views
views
46
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
7,742
views
views
47
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
7,711
views
views
48
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
7,704
views
views
49
Colleen Hoover
American author
7,684
views
views
50
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
7,484
views
views
51
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
7,316
views
views
52
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
7,304
views
views
53
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
7,300
views
views
54
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
7,291
views
views
55
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
7,243
views
views
56
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
7,240
views
views
57
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
7,212
views
views
58
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
7,144
views
views
59
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
7,102
views
views
60
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
7,090
views
views
61
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
7,046
views
views
62
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
7,012
views
views
63
Anaïs Nin
French-born American author (1903–1977)
6,989
views
views
64
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
6,927
views
views
65
David Malouf
Australian writer
6,685
views
views
66
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
6,530
views
views
67
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
6,518
views
views
68
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
6,509
views
views
69
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
6,299
views
views
70
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
6,281
views
views
71
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
6,266
views
views
72
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
6,244
views
views
73
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
6,101
views
views
74
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
6,002
views
views
75
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
5,987
views
views
76
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
5,981
views
views
77
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
5,950
views
views
78
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
5,902
views
views
79
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
5,887
views
views
80
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
5,872
views
views
81
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
5,858
views
views
82
Craig Ferguson
British actor
5,835
views
views
83
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
5,805
views
views
84
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
5,798
views
views
85
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
5,789
views
views
86
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
5,780
views
views
87
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer
5,659
views
views
88
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
5,655
views
views
89
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
5,478
views
views
90
J. D. Salinger
American author (1919–2010)
5,366
views
views
91
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
5,352
views
views
92
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
5,240
views
views
93
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
5,152
views
views
94
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
5,139
views
views
95
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
5,132
views
views
96
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
5,131
views
views
97
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
5,104
views
views
98
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
5,072
views
views
99
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
5,050
views
views
100
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
4,986
views
views
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