Books and book series

(December 1, 2007 – January 1, 2020).

Naruto is classified as a TV series (above) as it is more popular as an anime, and there is no separate page for the manga. Books with film/TV adaptations are listed below, as many of the links below are franchise pages. Note that A Song of Ice and Fire's popularity is considerably outstripped by that of its TV adaptation Game of Thrones.

Pre-modern books and texts

(December 1, 2007 – January 1, 2020).

This list includes books and texts composed before 1500 AD.

The leader of the 2010s had been Kama Sutra but the last year of the decade was the year of the Bible. In this year alone, Bible logged more views than in previous dozen years combined, securing the lead for years to come in this list and rising from the 24th to the 5th place in the general book list above.

Pre-modern people

(December 1, 2007 – January 1, 2020)

This category includes personalities born before AD 1400 (exception is made for Joan of Arc born in 1412) who cannot compete with our contemporaries, like Barack Obama and Michael Jackson. The general top-30 list of people includes 23 living people as of January 2020. This is a feature of the "nascent" Wikipedia. In the course of generations, such top-lists will contain only people passed away, for view-count continues posthumously.

In total, as of October 12, 2019, Wikipedia counts 1,609,522 people.[24] Of them, 929,502 are living,[25] or 57.75% (more than a half). 143,573 more were living in the Wikipedia period,[26] raising the percentage of this period’s people to 66.67 (precisely two-thirds). 341,079 more were living in the century preceeding Wikipedia (1901-2000),[27] raising the percentage of the contemporaries to 87.86. That is, people who lived from the beginning of history until 1900 – 98% of history - constitute only 12.14%. We are highly tempocentric.

Modern political leaders

(December 1, 2007 – January 1, 2020)

The list includes political leaders born after AD 1400.

Along the rise of Donald Trump, credit for the 2017 performance must be given to Vladimir Putin-he overtook Sarah Palin for the 23rd place. Palin dropped from the list the following year, mainly due to the mighty advance of the British royal family.