Protagonist


The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
Moon Over Manifest
Edge
The Book Thief
Revolution
My Life in Pink & Green (Pink & Green, #1)
His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale
The Informationist (Vanessa Michael Munroe, #1)
Obernewtyn (The Obernewtyn Chronicles, #1)
Rose Madder
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Genetics of Words: Recreating your World through the Supernatural Power behind your Words
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeAcorna by Anne McCaffreyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Pride of Chanur by C.J. CherryhThe Humans by Matt Haig
Alien protagonists
132 books — 64 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom StoppardThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Every T(h)om, Dick and Harry
418 books — 31 voters

Philip Athans
If a villain is someone whose motivations we understand but whose methods we find abhorrent, a hero is someone whose motivations we understand and whose methods we find inspirational.
Philip Athans, The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction: 6 Steps to Writing and Publishing Your Bestseller!

Gene Wolfe
There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main Character's life. The leading character in a series can wander off into another book and a new adventure better even than this one. Main Character cannot, at the end of your multivolume work. (Or at least, it should seem so.) His life may continue, an ...more
Gene Wolfe, Shadows of the New Sun

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