Top 50 Novelists in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest novelists in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 75 novelists tracked in Italy, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Elena Ferrante, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Marguerite Yourcenar lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 450,061 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 15,526, and the largest, Elena Ferrante, reaches around 321,204 people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each novelist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Elena Ferrante	321,204	19.8%	Novelist	Literature
2	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	67,279	3.4%	Novelist	Politics & Society
3	Marguerite Yourcenar	61,578	15.1%	Novelist	Literature
4	Jonathan Safran Foer	57,080	31.0%	Novelist	Literature
5	Raymond Chandler	40,473	8.4%	Novelist	Literature
6	Herman Melville	29,818	4.2%	Novelist	Literature
7	Barbara Kingsolver	25,500	5.8%	Novelist	Literature
8	Martin Amis	24,861	10.7%	Novelist	Literature
9	Nathaniel Hawthorne	16,939	2.9%	Novelist	Literature
10	Siri Hustvedt	13,189	6.3%	Novelist	Literature
11	Roddy Doyle	12,510	12.2%	Novelist	Literature
12	Helen Fielding	10,173	2.8%	Novelist	Literature
13	Wendell Berry	8,590	3.0%	Novelist	Literature
14	William Boyd (writer)	6,868	2.2%	Novelist	Literature
15	J. G. Ballard	6,695	7.1%	Novelist	Literature
16	Stephen Chbosky	5,973	2.5%	Novelist	Literature
17	William Goldman	5,247	5.8%	Novelist	Literature
18	William Makepeace Thackeray	5,208	4.2%	Novelist	Literature
19	Emily Giffin	4,727	3.0%	Novelist	Literature
20	Benedict Wells	4,376	1.1%	Novelist	Literature
21	Tom Wolfe	4,333	4.8%	Novelist	Literature
22	Louis L'Amour	4,312	1.3%	Novelist	Literature
23	Christian Kracht	3,772	1.4%	Novelist	Literature
24	Alice Hoffman	3,473	4.0%	Novelist	Literature
25	Carl Hiaasen	2,985	1.0%	Novelist	Literature
26	Paul Theroux	2,704	1.8%	Novelist	Literature
27	Terry McMillan	2,607	1.4%	Novelist	Literature
28	Rose Tremain	2,439	4.2%	Novelist	Literature
29	Jasper Fforde	2,059	2.7%	Novelist	Literature
30	Nicky Cruz	2,032	1.7%	Novelist
31	Jacqueline Carey	1,762	4.7%	Novelist
32	Mike Peterson	1,571	2.0%	Novelist	Literature
33	Melissa Schroeder	1,544	12.6%	Novelist
34	Leonardo Padura Fuentes	1,461	10.2%	Novelist	Literature
35	Peter Robinson (novelist)	1,368	0.6%	Novelist	Literature
36	Molly Harper	1,217	2.5%	Novelist	Literature
37	Thea Dorn	980	0.7%	Novelist	Literature
38	Renee Graziano	921	0.5%	Novelist
39	Priya Sharma	910	0.6%	Novelist
40	Luanne Rice	855	2.2%	Novelist
41	Uwe Tellkamp	624	0.9%	Novelist	Literature
42	Ted Dekker	621	0.3%	Novelist	Literature
43	Steve Alten	605	5.6%	Novelist	Literature
44	Beverly Lewis	522	1.5%	Novelist	Literature
45	Megan Hart	505	1.5%	Novelist	Literature
46	Seth Grahame-Smith	451	1.9%	Novelist	Literature
47	Ellen Glasgow	397	16.5%	Novelist	Literature
48	Hakan Günday	391	0.3%	Novelist
49	Molly McAdams	374	4.8%	Novelist	Literature
50	Jay Baer	220	2.8%	Novelist	Literature