Lists of Bests: Book Magazine's The Best of Bookish Characters

Send to Printer Book Magazine's The Best of Bookish Characters Voila, another list to wrangle over. This time it is other people’s choices of the 100 "best" characters in fiction since 1900. Chosen by a panel appointed by Book magazine, the list leaves loads of room for impassioned disagreement—what constitutes "best," anyway? The panelists include authors, editors, academics and actors, Michael York and Rod Steiger among them, and the outcome is eclectic and fun. Read on.
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	1.	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	2.	The Catcher in the Rye
	3.	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
	4.	Ulysses (Vintage International) by James Joyce
	5.	Rabbit, Run by John Updike
	6.	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
	7.	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
	8.	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
	9.	The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton
	10.	Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
	11.	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Franz Kafka
	12.	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
	13.	One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	14.	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
	15.	A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
	16.	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
	17.	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
	18.	Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright
	19.	In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
	20.	Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
	21.	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
	22.	The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
	23.	Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad
	24.	The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
	25.	The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
	26.	The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP by A. A. Milne
	27.	The Tin Drum (Vintage International) by Gunter Grass
	28.	Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor
	29.	Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
	30.	The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
	31.	Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
	32.	My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
	33.	Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
	34.	Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage) by Marcel Proust
	35.	Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III -The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Vintage) by Marcel Proust
	36.	Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
	37.	The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
	38.	The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
	39.	Little White Bird, The by James Matthew Barrie
	40.	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
	41.	The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	42.	Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International) by Cormac Mccarthy
	43.	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
	44.	Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
	45.	The Little Prince
	46.	The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
	47.	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) by Muriel Spark
	48.	The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene
	49.	The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
	50.	Sula (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison
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