Subcategory
Fiction
This index adds up the scores of 8 questions. 273 brands are ranked.
- Edition
- Nov 12, 2026
- Methodology
- v5.0
- Panel
- 6 AI surfaces
AI Visibility Ranking
Brands across every question in this category, ordered by GenRank score.
#BrandScore
- 1Demon Copperhead124.1
- 2The Underground Railroad105.0
- 3Beloved98.7
- 4One Hundred Years of Solitude82.2
- 5Wolf Hall76.8
- 6Pachinko76.8
- 7Kazuo Ishiguro67.9
- 8Haruki Murakami65.2
- 9James62.1
- 10Margaret Atwood61.7
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- 11Middlemarch59.2
- 12Thomas Pynchon58.0
- 13Hamnet56.6
- 14The Great Gatsby56.4
- 15Salman Rushdie55.9
- 16War and Peace55.5
- 17Ulysses55.3
- 18Dubliners50.1
- 19Don Quixote49.7
- 20The Book Thief49.2
- 21Stephen King45.3
- 22Things Fall Apart45.2
- 23Pride and Prejudice44.8
- 24All the Light We Cannot See44.4
- 25Lonesome Dove (content)43.9
- 26Marilynne Robinson43.8
- 27The Pillars of the Earth43.5
- 28My Brilliant Friend42.4
- 29A Gentleman in Moscow41.9
- 30The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett41.4
- 31The Overstory40.3
- 32Trust39.5
- 33Homegoing39.1
- 34The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century39.0
- 35Lincoln in the Bardo38.3
- 36Station Eleven38.2
- 37Anna Karenina38.2
- 38To Kill a Mockingbird37.2
- 39The Complete Stories (Kafka)36.0
- 40J.M. Coetzee35.9
- 41The Nightingale35.8
- 42The Name of the Rose34.1
- 43Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow34.1
- 44The Remains of the Day32.8
- 45Don DeLillo32.5
- 46What We Talk About When We Talk About Love30.4
- 47The Martian Chronicles30.1
- 48The Secret History29.9
- 49Never Let Me Go29.3
- 50Interpreter of Maladies28.4
- 1Demon Copperhead124.1
- 2The Underground Railroad105.0
- 3Beloved98.7
- 4One Hundred Years of Solitude82.2
- 5Wolf Hall76.8
- 6Pachinko76.8
- 7Kazuo Ishiguro67.9
- 8Haruki Murakami65.2
- 9James62.1
- 10Margaret Atwood61.7
- 11Middlemarch59.2
- 12Thomas Pynchon58.0
- 13Hamnet56.6
- 14The Great Gatsby56.4
- 15Salman Rushdie55.9
- 16War and Peace55.5
- 17Ulysses55.3
- 18Dubliners50.1
- 19Don Quixote49.7
- 20The Book Thief49.2
- 21Stephen King45.3
- 22Things Fall Apart45.2
- 23Pride and Prejudice44.8
- 24All the Light We Cannot See44.4
- 25Lonesome Dove (content)43.9
- 26Marilynne Robinson43.8
- 27The Pillars of the Earth43.5
- 28My Brilliant Friend42.4
- 29A Gentleman in Moscow41.9
- 30The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett41.4
- 31The Overstory40.3
- 32Trust39.5
- 33Homegoing39.1
- 34The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century39.0
- 35Lincoln in the Bardo38.3
- 36Station Eleven38.2
- 37Anna Karenina38.2
- 38To Kill a Mockingbird37.2
- 39The Complete Stories (Kafka)36.0
- 40J.M. Coetzee35.9
- 41The Nightingale35.8
- 42The Name of the Rose34.1
- 43Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow34.1
- 44The Remains of the Day32.8
- 45Don DeLillo32.5
- 46What We Talk About When We Talk About Love30.4
- 47The Martian Chronicles30.1
- 48The Secret History29.9
- 49Never Let Me Go29.3
- 50Interpreter of Maladies28.4
Top 50 of 273
The GenRank score sums each brand’s question-level visibility inside this category. Higher means AI names the brand more often and earlier. It is not bounded, so compare brands within one category, not across categories. Methodology
The questions behind this index
8Each question with its top three brands by GenRank score and how many brands its answers named.
Rank trend
Rank trends are drawn once two weekly editions under the same methodology exist. Only the first edition is in so far.
Named by surface
Each cell: of the surface's 8 answers, how many named the brand. Darker means named more often.
- Window
- Oct 18, 2026 ~ Nov 8, 2026
| Brand |  Google AI Overviews |  ChatGPT |  Claude |  Gemini | Google AI Mode |  Microsoft Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Demon Copperhead | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 2The Underground Railroad | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3Beloved | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5Wolf Hall | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 6Pachinko | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 7Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8Haruki Murakami | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9James | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 10Margaret Atwood | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11Middlemarch | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12Thomas Pynchon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 13Hamnet | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 14The Great Gatsby | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15Salman Rushdie | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Named alongside
Brands named in the same answers in the last four weeks. Circle size: answers naming the brand. Line width: answers naming both.
- Answers naming the brand
- 3
- 7
- 18
- Answers naming both
- 1
- 14
- Answers naming the brand
- 3
- 7
- 18
- Answers naming both
- 1
- 14
| Brand | Answers naming the brand | Named alongside |
|---|---|---|
| Demon Copperhead | 12 | James (5), The Underground Railroad (5), Pachinko (5) |
| The Underground Railroad | 11 | Demon Copperhead (5), My Brilliant Friend (5), Wolf Hall (5) |
| Beloved | 18 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (14), The Great Gatsby (12), Things Fall Apart (10) |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | 15 | Beloved (14), The Great Gatsby (12), Things Fall Apart (10) |
| Wolf Hall | 8 | The Underground Railroad (5), Pachinko (5), A Gentleman in Moscow (4) |
| Pachinko | 10 | A Gentleman in Moscow (6), Demon Copperhead (5), The Pillars of the Earth (5) |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 9 | Haruki Murakami (6), Marilynne Robinson (6), Margaret Atwood (6) |
| Haruki Murakami | 6 | Kazuo Ishiguro (6), Margaret Atwood (6), Marilynne Robinson (5) |
| James | 7 | Demon Copperhead (5), The Underground Railroad (3), Hamnet (2) |
| Margaret Atwood | 6 | Haruki Murakami (6), Kazuo Ishiguro (6), Marilynne Robinson (5) |
| Middlemarch | 8 | Beloved (8), Things Fall Apart (8), One Hundred Years of Solitude (8) |
| Thomas Pynchon | 5 | Haruki Murakami (5), Kazuo Ishiguro (5), Margaret Atwood (5) |
| Hamnet | 6 | Demon Copperhead (4), The Underground Railroad (4), Pachinko (4) |
| The Great Gatsby | 12 | Beloved (12), One Hundred Years of Solitude (12), Things Fall Apart (9) |
| Salman Rushdie | 5 | Kazuo Ishiguro (5), Haruki Murakami (4), Marilynne Robinson (4) |
| War and Peace | 10 | Beloved (8), One Hundred Years of Solitude (7), Ulysses (7) |
| Ulysses | 8 | Beloved (8), One Hundred Years of Solitude (8), The Great Gatsby (8) |
| Dubliners | 4 | |
| Don Quixote | 7 | Beloved (7), One Hundred Years of Solitude (7), Ulysses (7) |
| The Book Thief | 7 | All the Light We Cannot See (5), A Gentleman in Moscow (5), The Pillars of the Earth (5) |
| Stephen King | 4 | Haruki Murakami (4), Kazuo Ishiguro (4), Margaret Atwood (4) |
| Things Fall Apart | 10 | Beloved (10), One Hundred Years of Solitude (10), The Great Gatsby (9) |
| Pride and Prejudice | 7 | Beloved (7), One Hundred Years of Solitude (7), The Great Gatsby (7) |
| All the Light We Cannot See | 5 | The Book Thief (5), A Gentleman in Moscow (4), The Pillars of the Earth (4) |
| Lonesome Dove (content) | 3 | A Gentleman in Moscow (2), The Pillars of the Earth (2), Wolf Hall (2) |
| Marilynne Robinson | 6 | Kazuo Ishiguro (6), Haruki Murakami (5), Margaret Atwood (5) |
| The Pillars of the Earth | 5 | A Gentleman in Moscow (5), Pachinko (5), The Book Thief (5) |
| My Brilliant Friend | 7 | The Underground Railroad (5), Wolf Hall (4), Beloved (2) |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | 7 | Pachinko (6), The Pillars of the Earth (5), The Book Thief (5) |
| The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | 3 | Demon Copperhead (3), James (1), Hamnet (1) |
Most cited sources
Sites cited by the answers to this category's questions and its subcategories'. Counts are citing answers. All of this week's questions. Earlier ranks appear once two weekly runs of the same methodology exist.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | goodreads.com | 16 |
| 2 | penguinrandomhouse.com | 13 |
| 3 | fivebooks.com | 7 |
| 4 | reddit.com | 6 |
| 5 | ranker.com | 6 |
| 6 | panmacmillan.com | 4 |
| 7 | barnesandnoble.com | 4 |
| 8 | booksofbrilliance.com | 4 |
| 9 | pulitzer.org | 4 |
| 10 | shopping.google.com | 4 |
Sources and brands
Which cited sources appear in the answers that name each brand, counted in answers.
| Cited sources | Brand | Answers naming the brand |
|---|---|---|
| penguinrandomhouse.com | Beloved | 7 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 6 |
| thebookerprizes.com | The Underground Railroad | 5 |
| pulitzer.org | The Underground Railroad | 5 |
| theguardian.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 4 |
| theguardian.com | Beloved | 4 |
| goodreads.com | Beloved | 4 |
| goodreads.com | Demon Copperhead | 3 |
| britannica.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 3 |
| goodreads.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 3 |
| goodreads.com | Pachinko | 3 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | Demon Copperhead | 3 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | The Underground Railroad | 3 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | Pachinko | 3 |
| pulitzer.org | Wolf Hall | 3 |
| ranker.com | Haruki Murakami | 3 |
| ranker.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 3 |
| reddit.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 3 |
| thebookerprizes.com | Wolf Hall | 2 |
| pulitzer.org | Beloved | 2 |
| pulitzer.org | Demon Copperhead | 2 |
| britannica.com | Beloved | 2 |
| pulitzer.org | Pachinko | 2 |
| reddit.com | Beloved | 2 |
| reddit.com | Demon Copperhead | 2 |
| reddit.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2 |
| thebookerprizes.com | Beloved | 2 |
| thebookerprizes.com | Demon Copperhead | 2 |
| thebookerprizes.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 2 |
| goodreads.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2 |
| thebookerprizes.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 |
| reddit.com | Haruki Murakami | 1 |
| goodreads.com | Wolf Hall | 1 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | Wolf Hall | 1 |
| theguardian.com | The Underground Railroad | 1 |
| reddit.com | Wolf Hall | 1 |
| reddit.com | The Underground Railroad | 1 |
| reddit.com | Pachinko | 1 |
| penguinrandomhouse.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 |
| pulitzer.org | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 |
| pulitzer.org | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1 |
| thebookerprizes.com | Pachinko | 1 |
| goodreads.com | Haruki Murakami | 1 |
| goodreads.com | The Underground Railroad | 1 |
| ranker.com | Beloved | 1 |
| britannica.com | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 |
| britannica.com | Haruki Murakami | 1 |
| ranker.com | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 1 |
Citations by source type
How many citations in this edition point at each kind of source.
Other indexes in Books & Literature
The other indexes under the same parent, each with its top five brands.