Top 50 Authors in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 837 authors tracked in United Kingdom, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sarah, Duchess of York, Harlan Coben and Jane Austen lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5,180,713 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 666,843, and the largest, Sarah, Duchess of York, reaches around 1,869,317 people in United Kingdom. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United Kingdom and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Sarah, Duchess of York	1,869,317	28.6%	Author	Literature
2	Harlan Coben	1,813,678	25.4%	Author	Literature
3	Jane Austen	1,497,718	12.9%	Author	Literature
4	Neil Gaiman	1,427,012	14.0%	Author	Literature
5	Roald Dahl	1,247,619	20.1%	Author	Literature
6	Candace Owens	1,216,025	5.4%	Author	Literature
7	Charles Darwin	1,143,790	10.4%	Author	Business & Career
8	Stephen King	1,129,647	6.2%	Author	Literature
9	Sarah Raven	1,118,400	97.3%	Author	Literature
10	Jane Goodall	999,732	5.9%	Author	Pets & Animals
11	Agatha Christie	993,507	10.9%	Author	Literature
12	William Shakespeare	869,431	8.4%	Author	Literature
13	Sophie Kinsella	851,119	25.3%	Author	Literature
14	Florence Nightingale	840,553	9.2%	Author	Politics & Society
15	Rick Steves	824,929	60.3%	Author	Travel & Leisure
16	Anne Frank	736,158	4.6%	Author	Politics & Society
17	Oscar Wilde	710,250	8.7%	Author	Literature
18	Steve Backshall	660,832	81.5%	Author	Business & Career
19	Beatrix Potter	660,640	28.8%	Author	Literature
20	Charles Dickens	615,789	12.3%	Author	Literature
21	Amal Clooney	583,451	7.2%	Author	Politics & Society
22	George Orwell	579,242	8.4%	Author	Literature
23	David Icke	569,806	36.9%	Author	Literature
24	Jenna Coleman	552,761	15.2%	Author	Literature
25	Heather Graham	524,133	9.4%	Author	Literature
26	Sue Ryder	516,591	98.6%	Author	Politics & Society
27	Dr. Seuss	494,477	8.1%	Author	Literature
28	Val McDermid	484,016	70.9%	Author	Literature
29	Julia Donaldson	432,084	58.4%	Author	Literature
30	Malala Yousafzai	431,023	9.8%	Author	Politics & Society
31	Paul the Apostle	409,616	4.0%	Author	Politics & Society
32	Salman Rushdie	397,939	13.0%	Author	Literature
33	Owen Jones (writer)	397,725	71.1%	Author	Literature
34	Edgar Allan Poe	382,883	4.3%	Author	Literature
35	Margaret Atwood	380,815	11.6%	Author	Literature
36	Maya Angelou	377,404	8.2%	Author	Literature
37	Sarah J. Maas	365,536	8.9%	Author	Literature
38	J. R. R. Tolkien	357,027	9.0%	Author	Literature
39	Terry Pratchett	356,389	19.8%	Author	Literature
40	colleen hoover	353,948	5.4%	Author	Literature
41	Harriet Tubman	341,261	5.6%	Author	Politics & Society
42	Virginia Woolf	332,839	7.2%	Author	Literature
43	Dan Brown	322,541	6.2%	Author	Literature
44	Nostradamus	320,575	6.0%	Author	Politics & Society
45	Sally Rooney	319,252	13.3%	Author	Literature
46	Marian Keyes	315,623	42.2%	Author	Literature
47	Anthony Horowitz	312,124	53.9%	Author	Literature
48	Aleister Crowley	305,066	12.9%	Author	Literature
49	George R. R. Martin	301,571	7.7%	Author	Literature
50	Robert Harris (novelist)	298,318	40.2%	Author	Literature