A few years ago Book, a magazine which discontinued publication at the end of 2003, asked a panel of allegedly competent people to "rank the top one hundred characters in literature since 1900."
Wikipedia has that list here.
--Marshal Zeringue
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- Michael Cunningham on John Updike
- The singular Chuck Palahniuk
- Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier"
- Ron Howard's favorite fictional character
- America's "War and Peace?"
- Loiterature
- Still more on the best American novel
- Ralph Ellison's "Paris Review" interview
- Judging a book by its cover
- "Mildred Pierce"
- "The New Yorker" in Australia
- Philip Roth's "Everyman"
- "Savoring the ripeness of their own solemnity"
- More on the best American fiction
- Nicholas Birns on "cultural cringe"
- Italo Svevo's "Zeno's Conscience"
- "Beloved": the best U.S. novel of the last 25 years?
- "Pedigree" by Nick Laird
- "Books That Triggered Writers' Wanderlust"
- The 100 best characters in fiction
- On Australia's so-called "culture cringe"
- Martyn Goff's bad Booker beat
- Nalo Hopkinson's "Brown Girl in the Ring"
- "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
- "The Talking Dog" and habeas corpus
- "The House of Seven Gables"
- Peter Carey and "culture cringe"
- "If He Hollers Let Him Go" and other titles
- The best American fiction of the last 25 years?
- Jonathan Hafetz on habeas corpus
- More fiction for the structural racism series
- Update on the series on books about theocracies
- Jay Parini on Billy Collins and Rita Dove
- Jane Smiley on Balzac
- More Hispanic novels about structural racism
- More books about jails without judges
- Hispanic perspectives on structural racism
- "The Awakening"
- Anthony Shadid's favorite book about theocracy
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian Novelist, Dies
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