Trending Novelists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed novelists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Anthony Bourdain.
100
Ranked
4,855,347
Total Views (this year)
1
Anthony Bourdain
American chef and television personality (1956-2018)
135,634
views
views
2
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
111,222
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views
3
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer (born 1987)
106,164
views
views
4
Yukio Mishima
Japanese author (1925–1970)
103,938
views
views
5
Harlan Coben
American writer
96,382
views
views
6
William Shatner
Canadian actor (born 1931)
91,260
views
views
7
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
84,467
views
views
8
Jimmy Carter
president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1924–2024)
78,842
views
views
9
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
75,953
views
views
10
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
75,616
views
views
11
Katie Price
British television personality, businesswoman, model, and singer (born 1978)
74,728
views
views
12
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
73,788
views
views
13
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
71,750
views
views
14
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
70,431
views
views
15
Julie Andrews
British actress, singer and author (born 1935)
69,482
views
views
16
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
68,302
views
views
17
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
65,821
views
views
18
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
65,732
views
views
19
Penn Jillette
American magician and actor (born 1955)
63,969
views
views
20
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
63,906
views
views
21
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
61,446
views
views
22
Ethan Hawke
American actor and writer (born 1970)
60,521
views
views
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
58,294
views
views
24
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
57,560
views
views
25
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
56,240
views
views
26
MacKenzie Scott
American philanthropist and novelist
55,073
views
views
27
Stephen Fry
British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
54,184
views
views
28
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
52,246
views
views
29
Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
52,232
views
views
30
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
51,671
views
views
31
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
51,147
views
views
32
Andy Weir
American writer (born 1972)
51,034
views
views
33
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
51,009
views
views
34
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
50,942
views
views
35
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
49,643
views
views
36
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
48,841
views
views
37
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
48,361
views
views
38
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
47,955
views
views
39
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman (1949–2022)
47,603
views
views
40
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian-American author
47,509
views
views
41
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
46,350
views
views
42
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
45,603
views
views
43
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
45,183
views
views
44
Keigo Higashino
Japanese mystery writer (1958–2026)
44,309
views
views
45
Bella Thorne
American actress and singer (born 1997)
44,240
views
views
46
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
44,193
views
views
47
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
43,563
views
views
48
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
43,407
views
views
49
Molly Ringwald
American actress and writer (born 1968)
43,230
views
views
50
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
43,222
views
views
51
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
42,462
views
views
52
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
41,736
views
views
53
Tyler Perry
American actor and filmmaker
41,529
views
views
54
Lauren Graham
American actress, producer and novelist
41,044
views
views
55
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
40,803
views
views
56
David Benioff
American writer and producer (born 1970)
40,650
views
views
57
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
40,007
views
views
58
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)
39,635
views
views
59
Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
39,554
views
views
60
Nick Cave
Australian musician and singer
39,149
views
views
61
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor (born 1947)
38,299
views
views
62
Joan Collins
English actress, author and columnist
38,108
views
views
63
Russell Brand
English comedian, actor, and podcaster (born 1975)
38,044
views
views
64
Mickey Rooney
American actor (1920–2014)
37,952
views
views
65
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer and editor (1890–1937)
37,516
views
views
66
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
37,063
views
views
67
Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
36,897
views
views
68
Brandon Sanderson
American fantasy writer (born 1975)
36,218
views
views
69
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
36,127
views
views
70
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
35,802
views
views
71
Stephen Collins
American actor
35,508
views
views
72
John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
35,246
views
views
73
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
35,052
views
views
74
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
34,642
views
views
75
Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
34,261
views
views
76
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
34,034
views
views
77
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
34,001
views
views
78
Khloé Kardashian
American media personality, influencer, and businesswoman
33,823
views
views
79
Alex Garland
British writer, scriptwriter and film director (born 1970)
33,752
views
views
80
Truman Capote
American writer (1924-1984)
32,688
views
views
81
Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist, essayist, and activist
32,170
views
views
82
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
31,863
views
views
83
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
31,579
views
views
84
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
30,974
views
views
85
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
30,405
views
views
86
Chris Elliott
American actor, writer, and comedian
30,308
views
views
87
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
30,258
views
views
88
Joss Whedon
American director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1964)
30,146
views
views
89
Anne Rice
American writer
30,032
views
views
90
Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
29,421
views
views
91
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
29,196
views
views
92
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
29,041
views
views
93
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)
28,361
views
views
94
Rupert Everett
British actor
28,171
views
views
95
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
28,166
views
views
96
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
28,068
views
views
97
Divya Prakash Dubey
Indian Hindi author
28,035
views
views
98
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
27,905
views
views
99
Elle Kennedy
Canadian novelist; bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense
27,729
views
views
100
Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
27,719
views
views
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