Trending Novelists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yukio Mishima.
100
Ranked
1,349,126
Total Views (this year)
1
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
68,409
views
views
2
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
53,790
views
views
3
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
26,154
views
views
4
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
25,281
views
views
5
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
25,145
views
views
6
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
25,038
views
views
7
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
22,761
views
views
8
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
20,414
views
views
9
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
20,149
views
views
10
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
20,088
views
views
11
L. Ron Hubbard
estafador de gente
20,044
views
views
12
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
19,915
views
views
13
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
19,866
views
views
14
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
19,480
views
views
15
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
18,888
views
views
16
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
18,692
views
views
17
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
18,551
views
views
18
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
17,834
views
views
19
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
17,432
views
views
20
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
17,020
views
views
21
Lauren Weisberger
American author
16,892
views
views
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
15,841
views
views
23
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
15,653
views
views
24
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
15,455
views
views
25
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
14,708
views
views
26
Stephen Collins
American actor
14,502
views
views
27
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
14,450
views
views
28
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
14,309
views
views
29
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
13,822
views
views
30
Grace Dent
English columnist, broadcaster and author
13,790
views
views
31
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
13,752
views
views
32
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
13,596
views
views
33
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
13,389
views
views
34
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
13,254
views
views
35
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
13,251
views
views
36
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
13,108
views
views
37
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
13,043
views
views
38
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
13,001
views
views
39
Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
12,689
views
views
40
Craig Ferguson
British actor
12,635
views
views
41
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
12,446
views
views
42
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
12,435
views
views
43
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
11,968
views
views
44
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
11,881
views
views
45
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
11,599
views
views
46
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
11,517
views
views
47
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
11,319
views
views
48
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman (born 1984)
11,319
views
views
49
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
11,278
views
views
50
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
11,096
views
views
51
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
11,053
views
views
52
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
10,963
views
views
53
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
10,693
views
views
54
Tyler Perry
American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
10,634
views
views
55
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
10,603
views
views
56
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
10,465
views
views
57
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
10,405
views
views
58
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
10,274
views
views
59
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
10,262
views
views
60
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
10,249
views
views
61
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
10,180
views
views
62
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
10,058
views
views
63
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
9,968
views
views
64
Harper Lee
American novelist (1926–2016)
9,924
views
views
65
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
9,918
views
views
66
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
9,833
views
views
67
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
9,830
views
views
68
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
9,827
views
views
69
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
9,814
views
views
70
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
9,654
views
views
71
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
9,533
views
views
72
Rupert Everett
British actor
9,479
views
views
73
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
9,363
views
views
74
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
9,260
views
views
75
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
9,249
views
views
76
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
9,241
views
views
77
Colleen Hoover
American author
8,986
views
views
78
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
8,981
views
views
79
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
8,681
views
views
80
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
8,584
views
views
81
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
8,487
views
views
82
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
8,387
views
views
83
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
8,341
views
views
84
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
8,289
views
views
85
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
8,279
views
views
86
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
8,226
views
views
87
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
8,158
views
views
88
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
8,138
views
views
89
Maya Angelou
American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
8,101
views
views
90
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
8,057
views
views
91
Anaïs Nin
French-born American author (1903–1977)
8,001
views
views
92
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
7,971
views
views
93
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
7,952
views
views
94
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
7,918
views
views
95
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
7,901
views
views
96
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
7,835
views
views
97
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
7,642
views
views
98
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
7,571
views
views
99
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
7,487
views
views
100
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
7,472
views
views
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