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Chosen by Howard Jacobson (The Making of Henry). Chosen by Michael Morpurgo (Private Peaceful).

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This proves to be his downfall, and anyone who believes the rubbish about which respective planets men and women are from has only to read his final thoughts to be disabused of that notion. “Not beautiful” perhaps, but a self-centered schemer for the ages. It follows the course of a rackety afternoon in Soho in which a young man, Mike, goes on a pub crawl with a boring lush, gets increasingly drunk and makes nuisance calls to a girl he's in love with. When he's imprisoned at the end, your heart goes out to him.

I would love to have a friend who wrote such interesting letters. Chosen by Catherine Lockerbie, (director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival). #18) Olivia from Olivia by Ian Falconer He’s also (probably) insane and (definitely) brilliant. Plus, she was always getting into danger, or getting kidnapped, and even when she got over those ordeals, she'd go back for more detective work. California residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.

I love strong female characters because they mirror the girls and women in my own life. 1.

But I do recognize him as one of the best illustrations of a certain kind of angsty, disillusioned youth, slouching around with a totally lousy attitude. The unlikely hero of Italo Svevo's comic Confessions of Zeno always puts a foot wrong: he marries the only plain girl in a family of beauties; he plays the violin with an excruciating lack of skill; all his successes are accidental.

#15) Princess Magnolia from The Princess in Black Series by LeUyen Pham There is something incredibly calm and self-assured about Matilda. I love her need for order. Chosen by Jonny Geller (literary agent at Curtis Brown). He’s like the patron saint of disgruntled geniuses. MORE: Why 'Olivia' Is the Perfect Book for a High-Energy Child, #17) Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum There are few such fabulous (in the true sense) sons in fiction as Haroun in Salman Rushdie's anti-censorship fairy story, Haroun and The Sea of Stories. Olivia is fabulous!

Reporting on what you care about. Chosen by Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves). Eager and ambitious for the poisonous Pip, Joe is humble and self-effacing.

The ultimate romantic, who builds a lavish empire just to impress a girl — and the fictional embodiment of that alluring, disastrously misleading American Dream. She’s bonkers in the most fabulous way: a woman who, after being abandoned 20 minutes before her wedding by her husband-to-be, had all the clocks stopped at the moment of her betrayal and just continued living in her wedding dress, her house decaying around her, with only one shoe on. Chosen by AN Wilson (Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her). Ebeneezer, the grizzled old Guernsey narrator of GB Edwards's The Book of Ebenezer le Page, who talks us through 70 years of comings and goings on the tiny island he never leaves in salty, stream-of-consciousness patois. I wouldn't mind him eating my kidneys as long as he fed me an excellent bottle of red wine beforehand.

I read Proust's Remembrance of Things Past when I was on the dole. Katniss was just an average girl in District 12 who loved her sister more than anything else, and then she became one of the most incredible heroines fiction has ever seen. try again, the name must be unique, Please She was always different and would always be different, but her confidence and strength were something I have always admired. She is a red-haired, freckle-faced orphan who faces the world with absolutely nothing but the sheer force of her personality. An outcast, a lover obsessed with love, and a major sci-fi geek, Oscar is simply delightful. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? —Ariane Lange, I always loved the idea of her overcoming adversity by reading books. Though she starts off as a bit of a know-it-all, her compassion for her friends and Hogwarts family full of witches and wizards grows with every book. Cleopatra shows the universe who's boss when her 15-year-old self travels into the future to save all of humanity. In spite of all the distracting temptations offered to Dick Diver in F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night - happiness, success, wealth, glamour, the admiration of others - he realizes that he will only come into his own by becoming a charmless bore, an alcoholic, a lonely failure.

My favourite literary character is a toad, the comically cantankerous half of Arnold Lobel's amphibian duo, Frog and Toad.

Mickey Sabbath is a depraved, cruel, aging ex-puppeteer — the dirty old man to rule all dirty old men — and one of the most reprehensible characters in literature. But he’s like an über-fit, totally neurotic human car crash — you don’t want to see, but you just can’t look away. Joe Gargery in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is so decent and so real that you always think you know him. will be published daily in dedicated articles. Whether you're looking for a new read or a new role model, these 10 characters will inspire you even after you've finished the book: Independent, self-motivating, and full of wit — Jane Eyre is one of the most inspirational female characters in history, and I don't see that changing. Princess Truly teaches your child about self-acceptance and self-love, showing that she can do whatever it is she sets her mind to. It has to be the Swede in Philip Roth's American Pastoral. She thinks she's an intellectual, but she's actually a dumb blonde. Anna Karenina's Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky is a hopeless philanderer and useless bureaucrat. Kari Buhl is an aristocrat who embodies his creator's ideal of decency, modesty, intelligence, and immense sensitivity to the feelings of others. Journalist as Everyman. Chosen by Alexandra Pringle, (editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury). My favourite? Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Tolstoy's genius is to paint this unblinking portrait, which, rather than alienating, ends up seducing the reader. Lizzy is not only her father’s favorite child, but the reading public’s favorite child in the mighty family of Austen heroines. “Later variously called Snotnose, Stainface, Baldy, Sniffer, Buddha and even Piece-Of-The-Moon,” Saleem is one of the greatest unreliable narrators of all time, tied to history, on an epic journey of self-creation. And now, years later, writing about it, I still have chills. He's probably first-equal with Max from Where the Wild Things Are, and the Cat in the Hat. Swoon. Chosen by Geoff Dyer (Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered).

There is something appealing about a man who stows his stethoscope under his top hat. What is wonderful is the way she describes her life, her affair and her love for her husband in terms of all five senses.

To be clear: a great character isn’t always one you like (just ask Claire Messud), but one that is somehow extraordinary, or evokes some kind of delicious story-feeling in the reader. I also love the fact that despite Lizzie living in a world that just wasn't fair to women (they had to marry, they couldn't inherit, and were often regarded as silly) she never let that stop her from speaking her mind. So she runs off to become a dragon’s princess, where she fits in just fine, organizing the library, practicing her Latin, making cherries jubilee, learning spells, and refusing every misinformed prince who tries to “rescue” her. Look out for a confirmation email from us.