Top 50 Novelists in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest novelists in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 75 novelists tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Benedict Wells, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Christian Kracht lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 678,258 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 30,606, and the largest, Benedict Wells, reaches around 304,991 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each novelist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Benedict Wells	304,991	74.6%	Novelist	Literature
2	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	202,098	10.1%	Novelist	Politics & Society
3	Christian Kracht	171,169	63.4%	Novelist	Literature
4	Thea Dorn	130,471	88.6%	Novelist	Literature
5	Siri Hustvedt	126,432	60.7%	Novelist	Literature
6	Elena Ferrante	92,833	5.7%	Novelist	Literature
7	Barbara Kingsolver	62,371	14.1%	Novelist	Literature
8	Uwe Tellkamp	58,387	86.3%	Novelist	Literature
9	Herman Melville	51,494	7.3%	Novelist	Literature
10	Raymond Chandler	40,410	8.4%	Novelist	Literature
11	William Boyd (writer)	23,163	7.4%	Novelist	Literature
12	Tom Wolfe	23,103	25.8%	Novelist	Literature
13	Nathaniel Hawthorne	18,278	3.2%	Novelist	Literature
14	Jasper Fforde	18,014	23.4%	Novelist	Literature
15	Jonathan Safran Foer	17,264	9.4%	Novelist	Literature
16	Martin Amis	15,988	6.9%	Novelist	Literature
17	Carl Hiaasen	12,381	4.0%	Novelist	Literature
18	Leonardo Padura Fuentes	10,970	76.5%	Novelist	Literature
19	Stephen Chbosky	10,930	4.7%	Novelist	Literature
20	Peter Robinson (novelist)	10,645	4.4%	Novelist	Literature
21	Marguerite Yourcenar	10,284	2.5%	Novelist	Literature
22	Roddy Doyle	9,228	9.0%	Novelist	Literature
23	Helen Fielding	8,733	2.4%	Novelist	Literature
24	Wendell Berry	8,692	3.0%	Novelist	Literature
25	Robert T. Bakker	8,273	11.7%	Novelist	Literature
26	Nicky Cruz	8,154	6.8%	Novelist
27	Louis L'Amour	6,855	2.1%	Novelist	Literature
28	Paul Theroux	6,600	4.3%	Novelist	Literature
29	Alice Hoffman	6,168	7.2%	Novelist	Literature
30	Kat Martin	6,064	9.2%	Novelist
31	William Makepeace Thackeray	5,378	4.3%	Novelist	Literature
32	William Goldman	4,313	4.8%	Novelist	Literature
33	J. G. Ballard	3,759	4.0%	Novelist	Literature
34	Anne B. Ragde	3,751	90.2%	Novelist	Literature
35	Megan Hart	3,481	10.5%	Novelist	Literature
36	Mike Peterson	3,448	4.4%	Novelist	Literature
37	Rose Tremain	3,411	5.9%	Novelist	Literature
38	Judith Arnold	2,311	28.4%	Novelist	Literature
39	Hakan Günday	2,301	1.6%	Novelist
40	Molly Harper	2,187	4.4%	Novelist	Literature
41	Emily Giffin	2,126	1.4%	Novelist	Literature
42	Christie Ridgway	1,885	81.1%	Novelist	Literature
43	Luanne Rice	1,793	4.6%	Novelist
44	Jacqueline Carey	1,762	4.7%	Novelist
45	Beverly Lewis	1,676	4.7%	Novelist	Literature
46	Dorothea Benton Frank	1,574	4.1%	Novelist	Literature
47	Ted Dekker	1,378	0.8%	Novelist	Literature
48	Priya Sharma	1,217	0.8%	Novelist
49	Renee Graziano	1,064	0.6%	Novelist
50	Terry McMillan	1,049	0.6%	Novelist	Literature