Fictional Favourites: The Pressure Of Choosing Only One Hero or Heroine

I talk a lot about books and stories here on da blog and I do lists as well, but I don’t focus so often on a single favourite character or book.

But a question on t’interwebs prompted thought as to whether I could narrow those lists down, for example to the one book I’d snatch up if fleeing the house in a fire (the closest to hand, I suspect!), or whether I had one favourite fictional hero or heroine.

The pressure of “only one” when here are so many great fictional heroes and heroines out there...