Top 100 novels with characters and authors Flashcards
1 - Jay Gatsby,
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
2 - Holden Caulfield,
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
3 - Humbert Humbert,
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
4 - Leopold Bloom,
Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
5 - Rabbit Angstrom,
Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
6 - Sherlock Holmes,
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
7 - Atticus Finch,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
8 - Molly Bloom,
Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
9 - Stephen Dedalus,
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
10 - Lily Bart,
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
11- Holly Golightly,
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote, 1958
12 - Gregor Samsa,
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915
13 - The Invisible Man,
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
14 - Lolita,
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
15 - Aureliano Buendia,
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
16 - Clarissa Dalloway,
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
17 - Ignatius Reilly,
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
18 - George Smiley,
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
19 - Mrs. Ramsay,
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
20 - Bigger Thomas,
Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
21 - Nick Adams,
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
22 - Yossarian,
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
23 - Scarlett O’Hara,
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
24 - Scout Finch,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
25 - Philip Marlowe,
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
26 - Kurtz,
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
27 - Stevens,
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
28 - Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo,
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino, 1957
29 -Winnie the Pooh,
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
30 - Oskar Matzerath,
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
31 - Hazel Motes,
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor, 1952
32 - Alex Portnoy,
Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
33 - Binx Bolling,
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
34 - Sebastian Flyte,
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
35 - Jeeves,
My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
36 - Eugene Henderson,
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
37 - Marcel,
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
38 - Toad,
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
39 - The Cat in the Hat,
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
40 - Peter Pan,
The Little White Bird, J.M. Barrie, 1902
41 - Augustus McCrae,
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
42 - Sam Spade,
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 1930
43 - Judge Holden,
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985
44 - Willie Stark,
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
45 - Stephen Maturin,
Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian, 1969
46 - The Little Prince,
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
47 - Santiago,
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
48 - Jean Brodie,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
49 - The Whiskey Priest,
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
50 - Neddy Merrill,
The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
51 - Sula Peace,
Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
52 - Meursault,
The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
53 - Jake Barnes,
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
54 - Phoebe Caulfield,
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
55 - Janie Crawford,
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
56 - Antonia Shimerda,
My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
57 - Grendel,
Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
58 - Gulley Jimson,
The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
59 - Big Brother,
1984, George Orwell, 1949
60 - Tom Ripley,
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
61 - Seymour Glass,
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger, 1953
62 - Dean Moriarty,
On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
63 - Charlotte,
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, 1952
64 - T.S. Garp,
The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978
65 - Nick and Nora Charles,
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
66 - James Bond,
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
67 - Mr. Bridge,
Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
68 - Geoffrey Firmin,
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
69 - Benjy,
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
70 - Charles Kinbote,
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
71 - Mary Katherine Blackwood,
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
72 - Charles Ryder,
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
73 - Claudine,
Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
74 - Florentino Ariza,
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
75 - George Follansbee Babbitt,
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
76 - Christopher Tietjens,
Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
77 - Frankie Addams,
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
78 - The Dog of Tears,
Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
79 - Tarzan,
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
80 - Nathan Zuckerman,
My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
81 - Arthur “Boo” Radley,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
82 - Henry Chinaski,
Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
83 - Joseph K.
The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
84 - Yuri Zhivago,
Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
85 - Harry Potter,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1998
86 - Hana,
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
87 - Margaret Schlegel,
Howards End, E.M. Forster, 1910
88 - Jim Dixon,
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
89 - Maurice Bendrix,
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
90 - Lennie Small,
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
91 - Mr. Biswas,
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul, 1961
92 - Alden Pyle,
The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
93 - Kimball “Kim” O’Hara,
Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
94 - Newland Archer,
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
95 - Clyde Griffiths,
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
96 - Eeyore,
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
97 - Quentin Compson,
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
98 - Charlie Marlow,
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
99 - Celie,
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
100 - Augie March,
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
The Great Gatsby,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
The Catcher in the Rye,
J.D. Salinger, 1951
Lolita,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Ulysses,
James Joyce, 1922
Rabbit, Run,
John Updike, 1960
The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
Ulysses,
James Joyce, 1922
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
James Joyce, 1916
The House of Mirth,
Edith Wharton, 1905
Breakfast at Tiffany’s,
Truman Capote, 1958
The Metamorphosis,
Franz Kafka, 1915
Invisible Man,
Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lolita,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
Mrs. Dalloway,
Virginia Woolf, 1925
A Confederacy of Dunces,
John Kennedy Toole, 1980
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
John LeCarre, 1974
To the Lighthouse,
Virginia Woolf, 1927
Native Son,
Richard Wright, 1940
In Our Time,
Ernest Hemingway, 1925
Catch-22,
Joseph Heller, 1961
Gone With the Wind,
Margaret Mitchell, 1936
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
The Big Sleep,
Raymond Chandler, 1939
Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad, 1902
The Remains of the Day,
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
The Baron in the Trees,
Italo Calvino, 1957
Winnie the Pooh,
A.A. Milne, 1926
The Tin Drum,
Gunter Grass, 1959
Wise Blood,
Flannery O’Connor, 1952
Portnoy’s Complaint,
Philip Roth, 1969
The Moviegoer,
Walker Percy, 1961
Brideshead Revisited,
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
My Man Jeeves,
P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
Henderson the Rain King,
Saul Bellow, 1959
Remembrance of Things Past,
Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
The Wind in the Willows,
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
The Cat in the Hat,
Dr. Seuss, 1955
The Little White Bird,
J.M. Barrie, 1902
Lonesome Dove,
Larry McMurtry, 1985
The Maltese Falcon,
Dashiell Hammett, 1930
Blood Meridian,
Cormac McCarthy, 1985
All the King’s Men,
Robert Penn Warren, 1946
Master and Commander,
Patrick O’Brian, 1969
The Little Prince,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
The Old Man and the Sea,
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,
Muriel Spark, 1961
The Power and the Glory,
Graham Greene, 1940
The Swimmer,
John Cheever, 1964
Sula,
Toni Morrison, 1973
The Stranger,
Albert Camus, 1942
The Sun Also Rises,
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
The Catcher in the Rye,
J.D. Salinger, 1951
Their Eyes Were Watching God,
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
My Antonia,
Willa Cather, 1918
Grendel,
John Gardner, 1971
The Horse’s Mouth,
Joyce Cary, 1944
1984,
George Orwell, 1949
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
Patricia Highsmith, 1955
Nine Stories,
J.D. Salinger, 1953
On the Road,
Jack Kerouac, 1957
Charlotte’s Web,
E.B. White, 1952
The World According to Garp,
John Irving, 1978
The Thin Man,
Dashiell Hammett, 1934
Casino Royale,
Ian Fleming, 1953
Mrs. Bridge,
Evan S. Connell, 1959
Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry, 1947
The Sound and the Fury,
William Faulkner, 1929
Pale Fire,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,
Shirley Jackson, 1962
Brideshead Revisited,
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Claudine at School,
Colette, 1900
Love in the Time of Cholera,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
Babbitt,
Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Parade’s End,
Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
The Member of the Wedding,
Carson McCullers, 1946
Blindness,
Jose Saramago, 1995
Tarzan of the Apes,
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
My Life As a Man,
Philip Roth, 1979
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
Post Office,
Charles Bukowski, 1971
The Trial,
Franz Kafka, 1925
Dr. Zhivago,
Boris Pasternak, 1957
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,
J.K. Rowling, 1998
The English Patient,
Michael Ondaatje, 1992
Howards End,
E.M. Forster, 1910
Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis, 1954
The End of the Affair,
Graham Greene, 1951
Of Mice and Men,
John Steinbeck, 1937
A House for Mr. Biswas,
V.S. Naipaul, 1961
The Quiet American,
Graham Greene, 1955
Kim,
Rudyard Kipling, 1901
The Age of Innocence,
Edith Wharton, 1920
An American Tragedy,
Theodore Dreiser, 1925
Winnie the Pooh,
A.A. Milne, 1926
The Sound and the Fury,
William Faulkner, 1929
Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad, 1902
The Color Purple,
Alice Walker, 1982
The Adventures of Augie March,
Saul Bellow
