Popularity ranking · United Kingdom

The 100 most popular Authors in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest authors in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 868 authors tracked in United Kingdom, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sarah, Duchess of York, Harlan Coben and Roald Dahl lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 6.8M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 445k, and the largest, Sarah, Duchess of York, reaches around 3.3M 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.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United Kingdom. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Aleister Crowley 314k 45.0 68.0% Author
52 Ian Fleming 310k 47.6 33.5% Author
53 Brandon Sanderson 306k 45.4 52.3% Author
54 Noam Chomsky 306k 39.8 50.5% Author
55 Harriet Tubman 306k 43.5 100.0% Author
56 Salman Rushdie 305k 50.2 61.8% Author
57 Marian Keyes 295k 49.0 85.9% Author
58 Tom Clancy 290k 51.2 48.2% Author
59 Philip Pullman 288k 48.6 60.9% Author
60 Arthur Conan Doyle 283k 51.8 68.4% Author
61 Jojo Moyes 281k 47.9 83.2% Author
62 Rudyard Kipling 281k 43.6 68.0% Author
63 Nostradamus 275k 49.7 58.7% Author
64 Deepak Chopra 259k 40.0 70.8% Author
65 Ernest Hemingway 254k 39.8 51.6% Author
66 George Eliot 242k 44.3 67.6% Author
67 Zadie Smith 241k 51.7 66.9% Author
68 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 227k 46.5 69.7% Author
69 Ranulph Fiennes 225k 50.4 51.8% Author
70 Michael Connelly 225k 55.2 63.4% Author
71 Ann Cleeves 218k 55.5 76.7% Author
72 Patricia Cornwell 217k 53.9 70.3% Author
73 Ian Rankin 214k 53.0 66.5% Author
74 Kristin Hannah 212k 52.6 89.3% Author
75 Ian McEwan 209k 53.2 64.4% Author

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular authors compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United Kingdom and ranks each author by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest author in United Kingdom?

Sarah, Duchess of York currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.3M people in United Kingdom.

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