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. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:35:57 GMT en-us 0 50 93 50 0 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51osy1Yf76L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51namOub2kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gMT3BaWiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iEK3J3hNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LDg4vxI6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> 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Wright</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yzqCjpcmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eW-wH1K-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> 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> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416K0YQnmtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HcHjaY2CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51657M9eaiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-xp7n%2BAbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-plsIRvtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. A. Milne</div> 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> 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> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pT9wtzcWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pVDBKE6rL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walker Percy</div> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IrqrCMouL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> 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> 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://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512SwP%2BHT2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67483 <div id="position">34</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> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263607 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263607"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NBfGwdv5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcel Proust</div> 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