Lists of Bests: Book Magazine's The Best of Bookish Characters http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2127 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. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:14:11 GMT en-us 0 50 94 50 0 The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316769487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18659"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123304346_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Ulysses (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18652"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679722769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336587 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/336587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528018.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Conan Doyle</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12917"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446310786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71421 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71421"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The House of Mirth (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13942 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527569.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129950121_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72823 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72823"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067960085X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14699 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486290301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Mrs. Dalloway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4141"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156628708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130208.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056491820_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743457900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carre</div> To the Lighthouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156907399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422718_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div> In Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19300 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19300"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684822768.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Catch 22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19372"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684833395.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114049981_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12955 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12955"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446365386.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486264645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> The Baron in the Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156106809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15332 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15332"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525467262.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> The Tin Drum (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972575X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> Wise Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8546"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374505845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438166_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> Portnoy's Complaint http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18979 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18979"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679756450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Moviegoer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9043"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> Brideshead Revisited http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7169"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> My Man Jeeves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704664 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704664"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933652217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. G. Wodehouse</div> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189424.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263607 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263607"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394711831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III -The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337919 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337919"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039471184X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67483 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67483"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972009X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192799_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> The Wind in the Willows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19836 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19836"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068971310X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> The Cat in the Hat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11242 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11242"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039480001X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V38499024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dr. Seuss</div> Little White Bird, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704682 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704682"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1404315144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056514364_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Matthew Barrie</div> Lonesome Dove http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067168390X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry McMurtry</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686679"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156012952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10795 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10795"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393307050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick O'Brian</div> The Little Prince http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4006"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156012197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Old Man and The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19230 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684801221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129951312_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1320 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1320"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414511_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Muriel Spark</div> The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Stories of John Cheever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> Sula (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14154 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14154"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452283868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div>