Top 50 Novelists in United States

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest novelists in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 75 novelists tracked in United States, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Barbara Kingsolver lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1,241,715 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 94,627, and the largest, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, reaches around 516,133 people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each novelist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	516,133	25.9%	Novelist	Politics & Society
2	Nathaniel Hawthorne	369,853	64.2%	Novelist	Literature
3	Barbara Kingsolver	355,729	80.2%	Novelist	Literature
4	Herman Melville	315,840	45.0%	Novelist	Literature
5	Louis L'Amour	312,017	96.5%	Novelist	Literature
6	Carl Hiaasen	293,537	95.0%	Novelist	Literature
7	Wendell Berry	270,978	94.0%	Novelist	Literature
8	Elena Ferrante	184,280	11.3%	Novelist	Literature
9	Renee Graziano	157,778	88.0%	Novelist
10	Ted Dekker	154,302	84.0%	Novelist	Literature
11	Raymond Chandler	143,181	29.6%	Novelist	Literature
12	Terry McMillan	142,825	78.4%	Novelist	Literature
13	Stephen Chbosky	115,208	49.2%	Novelist	Literature
14	Nicky Cruz	110,620	91.6%	Novelist
15	Emily Giffin	98,294	63.2%	Novelist	Literature
16	Paul Theroux	81,824	53.8%	Novelist	Literature
17	William Goldman	79,460	87.9%	Novelist	Literature
18	Alice Hoffman	76,526	88.8%	Novelist	Literature
19	Martin Amis	67,593	29.2%	Novelist	Literature
20	William Boyd (writer)	66,149	21.2%	Novelist	Literature
21	Jonathan Safran Foer	55,603	30.1%	Novelist	Literature
22	Tom Wolfe	49,703	55.5%	Novelist	Literature
23	Kat Martin	49,633	75.7%	Novelist
24	Randy Wayne White	48,031	99.5%	Novelist
25	Peter Robinson (novelist)	42,657	17.7%	Novelist	Literature
26	William Makepeace Thackeray	39,032	31.4%	Novelist	Literature
27	Dorothea Benton Frank	36,804	95.7%	Novelist	Literature
28	Terri Blackstock	36,635	91.8%	Novelist	Literature
29	J. G. Ballard	36,405	38.6%	Novelist	Literature
30	Mike Peterson	35,225	44.6%	Novelist	Literature
31	Helen Fielding	33,389	9.1%	Novelist	Literature
32	Molly Harper	32,332	65.4%	Novelist	Literature
33	Luanne Rice	30,096	77.8%	Novelist
34	Jasper Fforde	30,047	39.1%	Novelist	Literature
35	Beverly Lewis	29,710	83.2%	Novelist	Literature
36	Jacqueline Carey	24,085	63.8%	Novelist
37	J. A. Jance	23,958	98.8%	Novelist	Literature
38	Seth Grahame-Smith	22,330	95.5%	Novelist	Literature
39	Tracie Peterson	18,176	86.9%	Novelist	Literature
40	Megan Hart	17,210	52.0%	Novelist	Literature
41	Robert T. Bakker	17,065	24.0%	Novelist	Literature
42	Roddy Doyle	16,538	16.1%	Novelist	Literature
43	Siri Hustvedt	16,076	7.7%	Novelist	Literature
44	Priya Sharma	15,999	10.1%	Novelist
45	Marguerite Yourcenar	12,224	3.0%	Novelist	Literature
46	Kimberla Lawson Roby	12,203	98.9%	Novelist
47	Christine Dwyer	12,109	92.5%	Novelist
48	Melissa Schroeder	9,339	76.3%	Novelist
49	Steve Alten	9,218	84.9%	Novelist	Literature
50	Gilbert Morris	7,425	96.6%	Novelist	Literature