1. Harry Potter
2. Severus Snape in Harry Potter
3. Zaphod Beeblebrox- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Atticus Finch- To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Jeeves- Jeeves and Wooster books.

Okay, so beyond my love for Lionel and Howard (see post above) these are characters I adore:

Phoebe Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye
William Henry Devereaux Jr. (Hank) from Straight Man A Novel
Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
Philbert from Hunting and Gathering, and
Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice

1. Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings
2. Hassan from The Kite Runner
3. Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter
4. Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter
5. Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird

Lori wrote: "Let's see....
3- Lionel (Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem)
4- Howard (The Ha-Ha - Dave King)
"

I LOVED Howard and Lionel!! Two of my most beloved characters, for sure. :)

Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series
Lyra Silvertongue in the His Dark Materials trilogy
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
Artemis Fowl in the Artemis Fowl series

and I don't really know who else... maybe Rob Fleming from High Fidelity or Lucia from She's No Princess.

1. Lee in East of Eden
2. Samuel Hamilton in East of Eden
3. Lisbeth Salander The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire
4. Severus Snape Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
5. Jane from Jane Eyre

At least that's how I'm feeling atm.

Yay for Amelia Peabody and Nancy Drew!!!
They are the best!!!

In no particular order:

- Franck from Hunting and Gathering
- Kreacher from the Harry Potter Series (and Herminone ... and Dobby ... and so many more but I'll stick with Kreacher)
- Becky Brandon (nee Blomwood) from the Shopaholic series
- Rudy from The Book Thief
- Anna from My Sister's Keeper

I'm leaving out so many good ones, but those are some excellent choices nonetheless!

Mmmmmm I don;t think I have ever thought about this....... This wont be in order

Scarlet O'hara - Gone with the Wind
Mr Collins - Pride and Prejudice
Emma Bovary - Madame Bovary
Stephen Mauturin/ Jack Aubrey - Master and Commander
Willie Wonker - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Anne Boylen - The Other Boylen Girl
Death - Disc World Novels
Hagrid - Harry Potter

Ok I know that is more than 5, but there are too many to choose from.

1. Sophie Hatter and Wizard Howl - Howl's Moving Castle
2. Maree Mallory and Nick Mallory - Deep Secret
3. Sara Crewe - A Little Princess
4. Death - Discworld series
5. Matilda - Matilda
6. Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing
7. Harry, Ron , Hermione, Luna, Neville, Fred and George - Harry Potter series >.>
8. Amelia Peabody and Emerson - Amelia Peabody mysteries
9. Fanny Price - Mansfield Park
10. Little Red Riding Hood - Any version

I just couldn't cut it down v_v I tried!

1. Catherine Morland - Northanger Abbey
2. Jo March - Little Women
Theodore 'Laurie' Lawrence is joint second
3. Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables series
4. Thursday Next - Thursday Next series
5. Sebastian Flyte - Brideshead Revisited

(Honourable mentions: Mary Lennox from Secret Garden, Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice, and Nancy Drew from...every Nancy Drew book ever.)

1. Rue, from the Hunger Games
2.Snape from Harry Potter..
3.Kartik (sp?) from the Gemma Doyle trilogy

i know thats only three but still my favorites =)

How in the world did I forget Raistlin from the Dragonlance series....or Tasslehoff??? Holy cow...I loved that series!

1. Tyrion Lannister from GRRM's Song of Ice & Fire series

2. Lan from Robert Jordan's WoT series
3. Stephanie Plum (and Lula and Grandma Mazur) from Janet Evanovich's series

4. Harry Potter
5. Jaime Lannister from GRRM...I hated him at the start of the series, but I love watching him grow and change, it's so interesting.

Edmond Dantes- Monte Christo
Scout Finch- Mockingbird
Jean Valjean-Les Miserables
Holly Golightly-Breakfast at Tiffany's
I could only think of four that stand out in my mind. There are books which have a whole cast of charaters that I have enjoyed.

El wrote: "1. David Weiser in Who Was David Weiser? by Paweł Huelle.
2. Harriet in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
3. Lily Bart in [book:The House..."

Yes, I totally agree with Harriet and Herbie - I forgot about them both, but what great characters they were.

!. Owen Meaney (A Prayer for Owen Meaney)
2. Pee Joe (Crazy in Alabama)
3. The Little Prince (The Little Prince)
4. Dunstable Ramsay (Fifth Business)
5. Henry Huggins (Henry Hugins)

1. Lisbeth Salander - Millenium Series
2. Eric Northman - Sookie Stackhouse series
3. Sookie Stackhouse
4. Emmett - Twilight Saga
5. Bella - Twilight Saga
And theres more but i'll keep it to 5.

Robert Langdon-Da Vinci code
Jane Eyre
Taylor Greer-The Bean Trees

hmmm...maybe i'm too harsh...as of right now I can only think of three definites

1. Anne Shirley (Anne Blythe) - Anne of Green Gables & series by L.M. Montgomery
2. Jessica Darling - Sloppy Firsts & Series...can't think of author
3. Harry Potter (except the fifth book...I couldn't take his attitude)

1. Lyra Silvertongue- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

2. Heidi- Heidi by Johanna Spri

3. Severus Snape- Harry Potter Series

4. Ugly Girl- Big Mouth and Ugly Girl- Joyce Carol Oates.

5. Mrs. Coulter- His Dark Materials series.

6. Jane Eyre- Jane Eyre

7. Danny's dad- Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

1. Bilbo Baggins - The Hobbit
2. John Clark - Without Remorse, Rainbow Six
3. Althus - The Redemption Of Althus
4. Lucas Davenport - Prey series
5. Ender - Ender's Game

I was thinking just the other day that I wanted to create a my-favorite-lit-characters encyclopedia (such a nerd, I am). I just don't think five is enough :C

1. Hermione from the Harry Potter series
2. Stevie Rae from the House of Night series
3. Caroline Fitzwilliam from the Pemberley Chronicles series
4. Alice from the Twilight series
5. Eric from the House of Night series

Jennifer wrote: "1. dracula
2. harry, ron, heromine, and the twins
3. eric northman, pam, and sam merlotte (sookie stackhouse books)
4. jane eyre
5. matilda veronica (faking it)

ugh! there are so many more that..."

Eric!!! Woohoo!

Ack! Ender, Katniss, Matilda, etc. It should be 100 favorite characters for sure!

When I read a good book I find it hard not to love the characters. but of the books I read recently:

1) Death from the Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (because really how can you not love him?)

2) Ender from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card by

3) Tiffany Aching from Discworld by
Terry Pratchett

4)Katniss from The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins

5)Locke Lamora from The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

*Please note that this is not in order from favorite to least, because if I was really force to choose one, I'd feel like I was choosing who is my favorite child.

Oooh, very tough question. Let's see:

1. Eomer in The Lord of the Rings
2. Anne Elliot in Persuasion
3. Mr. Thornton in North and South
4. Faramir in The Lord of the Rings
5. Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility

That was hard, lol; had a couple of other characters in mind tied for 5 or 6 xD

1.) Matilda from Matilda by Roald Dahl (She's so smart and entertaining and amazing)
2.) Mattie Gokey from A Gatheirng Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Gotta love a bibliophile!)
3.) Ron Weasely from Harry Potter (Funny, witty and a good person)
4.) Lucy from A Room with A View by E.M. Forester (She chooses love over a high status marriage, which is an amazing thing considering the time period in which thsi book is set.)
5.) Tibby from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (Tibby is relaistic and honest.)

Marvin IS a really great character!! <3

1. Lord John Grey in Voyager and subsequent novels by Diana Gabaldon
2. Michael K in Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
3. Harry Bosch in The Black Echo and subsequent books by Michael Connelly
4. Hank Thompson in Caught Stealing A Novel trilogy by Charlie Huston
5. Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams*

* An Honorable Mention goes to Ford Prefect.

1. David Weiser in Who Was David Weiser? by Paweł Huelle.
2. Harriet in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
3. Lily Bart in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
4. Herbie Bookbinder in City Boy by Herman Wouk.
5. Hermione Gart in HERmione by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).

This took a while.

1. Shevek in The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. Helen Schlegel in Howards End by E.M. Forster
3. Mick Kelly in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
4. Tyrone Slothrop in Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
5. Lusa in Prodigal Summer A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

I want to add a few more. But I'll limit myself to five.

Kim wrote: "I keep changing mine! I'll have to keep thinking about it.

1. Javert from Les Misérables (such a fascinating villian!)
2. Jean Valjean from Les Misérables
3. The Bish..."

I was intrigued by Tom Bombadil from LOTR also. I was sad they left him out of the movie as I had hoped to see him on the big screen.

I keep changing mine! I'll have to keep thinking about it.

1. Javert from Les Misérables (such a fascinating villian!)
2. Jean Valjean from Les Misérables
3. The Bishop from Les Misérables
4. George & Fred Weasley from the Harry Potter books
5. Tom Bombadil from LOTR

I obviously like Les Mis, huh?

Lisa wrote: "Oh Becky, You had a seriously deprived childhood. ;-)"

You know, it's funny. I think I read more YA NOW than I did as a kid. I used to read the newspaper and those Readers Digest Condensed Books and a lot of "YA Horror"esque stuff... Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, RL Stine, Christopher Pike, that kind of stuff.

I didn't get into fantasy or sci-fi at all until my adulthood.

Ronna wrote: "I'll break the rules and do more than five. Mwahahaha!! No particular order

1. Bellatrix Lestrange, Dumbledore (Harry Potter series)
2. Jane, Alice (Twilight series)
3. Ian (The Host)
4. Jace..."

Jane!! wow, I should have put her too. Did you hear that Dakota Fanning mis playing Jane in New Moon. She is perfec in my book! Small, blonde, and creepy (if you saw Hide and Seek).

adding to my already too long list: inigo montoya from the princess bride!

Katie wrote: "This is harder than it looks! The only no-brainer for me was:
1. Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird
Also,
2. Minerva Mirabel from In the Time of the Butterflies
3. Sofia from The Color Purple
4...."


Yay for Ponyboy. He would have been on my list if I hadn't just read Belong to Me and become enamored with Dev. And then theres Teo from both of the Maria De Los Santos books. I think I want to be Teo, or Cornelia and married to Teo.

oooh Vicki.... Halpo... I read that series when I was much younger and LOVED Haplo!!

Ahhh memories!

Gah! It's like choosing between my children...>_<

Some of my favorites though (in no particular order):

1. John Carter (A Princess of Mars and sequels - Edgar Rice Burroughs)
2. Zifnab and his Dragon, and Haplo (Deathgate Cycle - Weis & Hickman)
3. Dorothy Gale, Bill(ina) the chicken, The Patchwork Girl, The Tin woodman, The Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz and Sequels - L. Frank Baum)
4. Cal Leandros (Nightlife and Sequels - Rob Thurman)
5. Louis de Pointe du Lac (Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice)
6. Gerald Tarrent (Coldfire Trilogy - C.S. Friedman)
8. Avery Cates (The Electric Church - Jeff Somers)
9. Lisbeth Salander (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson)
10. Hamlet
12. Alice (Twilight & Sequels - Stephenie Meyer)
13. The Grinch
14. Sherlock Holmes
15. Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy)

I know I went way over five, but keeping it this short was tortuous!

As to what my choices say about me, I think it says that I like crazy people who are also heroic (more or less).

ok, well, i did put in a (or whatever) in the original post right after 5, so you can pick however many characters you'd want. i just picked five cause it seemed like a nice number. but i'm loving this thread...let's hear some more!!

Oh Becky, You had a seriously deprived childhood. ;-)

A Wrinkle in Time is the book where Meg Murray is introduced

and Meet the Austins is the book where Vicky Austin is first introduced.

I still love both those books, and some of their sequels. Even though they're somewhat dated they're well worth reading.

Edit: In some of the sequels, these two characters/families both appear/have relationships with each other.

I don't know your 1 or 2 Lisa, but I love your 3, 4 & 5!! :)

1. Meg Murray (Madeleine L'Engle books)
2. Vicky Austin (Madeleine L'Engle books)
3. Harry Potter
4. Jo March (Little Women - Louisa May Alcott)
5. Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee)

HAHA! Yah, pretty much. I like 'em brave, flawed and sweet too. like Jace, Seth and Ian.

;D

Ronna wrote: "Um, Bellatrix, Ian, Jace, Seth and Katniss

ahh, i wanted to add Niall too!
;D"

Well, I don't know anything about Ian, Jace or Seth, but Bellatrix and Katniss (along with your previous post) kinda point at you being a bit of a rebel! LOL ;)

Um, Bellatrix, Ian, Jace, Seth and Katniss

ahh, i wanted to add Niall too!
;D

Bah humbug! I'm all for breaking the rules! Lol :P

Jennifer wrote: "5 seemed like it would be so easy, and then when it came down to it, its not near enough! But, I'm glad you agree with me about the interactions, Becky!"

I know Jennifer. It's hard to narrow it down. But that's the point! :)