Top 100 novels with characters and authors Flashcards
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1 - Jay Gatsby,
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
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2 - Holden Caulfield,
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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
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3 - Humbert Humbert,
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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
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4 - Leopold Bloom,
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Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
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5 - Rabbit Angstrom,
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Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
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6 - Sherlock Holmes,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
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7 - Atticus Finch,
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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
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8 - Molly Bloom,
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Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
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9 - Stephen Dedalus,
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
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10 - Lily Bart,
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The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
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11- Holly Golightly,
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote, 1958
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12 - Gregor Samsa,
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The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915
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13 - The Invisible Man,
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
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14 - Lolita,
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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
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15 - Aureliano Buendia,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
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16 - Clarissa Dalloway,
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Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
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17 - Ignatius Reilly,
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A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
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18 - George Smiley,
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
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19 - Mrs. Ramsay,
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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
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20 - Bigger Thomas,
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Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
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21 - Nick Adams,
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In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
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22 - Yossarian,
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Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
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23 - Scarlett O’Hara,
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Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
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24 - Scout Finch,
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To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
25
25 - Philip Marlowe,
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
26
26 - Kurtz,
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
27
27 - Stevens,
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
28
28 - Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo,
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino, 1957
29
29 -Winnie the Pooh,
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
30
30 - Oskar Matzerath,
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
31
31 - Hazel Motes,
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
32
32 - Alex Portnoy,
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
33
33 - Binx Bolling,
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
34
34 - Sebastian Flyte,
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
35
35 - Jeeves,
My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
36
36 - Eugene Henderson,
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
37
37 - Marcel,
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
38
38 - Toad,
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
39
39 - The Cat in the Hat,
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
40
40 - Peter Pan,
The Little White Bird, J.M. Barrie, 1902
41
41 - Augustus McCrae,
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
42
42 - Sam Spade,
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 1930
43
43 - Judge Holden,
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985
44
44 - Willie Stark,
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
45
45 - Stephen Maturin,
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, 1969
46
46 - The Little Prince,
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
47
47 - Santiago,
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
48
48 - Jean Brodie,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
49
49 - The Whiskey Priest,
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
50
50 - Neddy Merrill,
The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
51
51 - Sula Peace,
Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
52
52 - Meursault,
The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
53
53 - Jake Barnes,
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
54
54 - Phoebe Caulfield,
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
55
55 - Janie Crawford,
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
56
56 - Antonia Shimerda,
My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
57
57 - Grendel,
Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
58
58 - Gulley Jimson,
The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
59
59 - Big Brother,
1984, George Orwell, 1949
60
60 - Tom Ripley,
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
61
61 - Seymour Glass,
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger, 1953
62
62 - Dean Moriarty,
On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
63
63 - Charlotte,
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White, 1952
64
64 - T.S. Garp,
The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978
65
65 - Nick and Nora Charles,
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
66
66 - James Bond,
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
67
67 - Mr. Bridge,
Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
68
68 - Geoffrey Firmin,
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
69
69 - Benjy,
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
70
70 - Charles Kinbote,
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
71
71 - Mary Katherine Blackwood,
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
72
72 - Charles Ryder,
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
73
73 - Claudine,
Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
74
74 - Florentino Ariza,
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
75
75 - George Follansbee Babbitt,
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
76
76 - Christopher Tietjens,
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
77
77 - Frankie Addams,
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
78
78 - The Dog of Tears,
Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
79
79 - Tarzan,
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
80
80 - Nathan Zuckerman,
My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
81
81 - Arthur "Boo" Radley,
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
82
82 - Henry Chinaski,
Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
83
83 - Joseph K.
The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
84
84 - Yuri Zhivago,
Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
85
85 - Harry Potter,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1998
86
86 - Hana,
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
87
87 - Margaret Schlegel,
Howards End, E.M. Forster, 1910
88
88 - Jim Dixon,
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
89
89 - Maurice Bendrix,
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
90
90 - Lennie Small,
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
91
91 - Mr. Biswas,
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul, 1961
92
92 - Alden Pyle,
The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
93
93 - Kimball "Kim" O'Hara,
Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
94
94 - Newland Archer,
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
95
95 - Clyde Griffiths,
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
96
96 - Eeyore,
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
97
97 - Quentin Compson,
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
98
98 - Charlie Marlow,
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
99
99 - Celie,
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
100
100 - Augie March,
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
101
The Great Gatsby,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
102
The Catcher in the Rye,
J.D. Salinger, 1951
103
Lolita,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
104
Ulysses,
James Joyce, 1922
105
Rabbit, Run,
John Updike, 1960
106
The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
107
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
108
Ulysses,
James Joyce, 1922
109
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
James Joyce, 1916
110
The House of Mirth,
Edith Wharton, 1905
111
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Truman Capote, 1958
112
The Metamorphosis,
Franz Kafka, 1915
113
Invisible Man,
Ralph Ellison, 1952
114
Lolita,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
115
One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
116
Mrs. Dalloway,
Virginia Woolf, 1925
117
A Confederacy of Dunces,
John Kennedy Toole, 1980
118
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
John LeCarre, 1974
119
To the Lighthouse,
Virginia Woolf, 1927
120
Native Son,
Richard Wright, 1940
121
In Our Time,
Ernest Hemingway, 1925
122
Catch-22,
Joseph Heller, 1961
123
Gone With the Wind,
Margaret Mitchell, 1936
124
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
125
The Big Sleep,
Raymond Chandler, 1939
126
Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad, 1902
127
The Remains of the Day,
Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
128
The Baron in the Trees,
Italo Calvino, 1957
129
Winnie the Pooh,
A.A. Milne, 1926
130
The Tin Drum,
Gunter Grass, 1959
131
Wise Blood,
Flannery O'Connor, 1952
132
Portnoy's Complaint,
Philip Roth, 1969
133
The Moviegoer,
Walker Percy, 1961
134
Brideshead Revisited,
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
135
My Man Jeeves,
P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
136
Henderson the Rain King,
Saul Bellow, 1959
137
Remembrance of Things Past,
Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
138
The Wind in the Willows,
Kenneth Grahame, 1908
139
The Cat in the Hat,
Dr. Seuss, 1955
140
The Little White Bird,
J.M. Barrie, 1902
141
Lonesome Dove,
Larry McMurtry, 1985
142
The Maltese Falcon,
Dashiell Hammett, 1930
143
Blood Meridian,
Cormac McCarthy, 1985
144
All the King's Men,
Robert Penn Warren, 1946
145
Master and Commander,
Patrick O'Brian, 1969
146
The Little Prince,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
147
The Old Man and the Sea,
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
148
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,
Muriel Spark, 1961
149
The Power and the Glory,
Graham Greene, 1940
150
The Swimmer,
John Cheever, 1964
151
Sula,
Toni Morrison, 1973
152
The Stranger,
Albert Camus, 1942
153
The Sun Also Rises,
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
154
The Catcher in the Rye,
J.D. Salinger, 1951
155
Their Eyes Were Watching God,
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
156
My Antonia,
Willa Cather, 1918
157
Grendel,
John Gardner, 1971
158
The Horse's Mouth,
Joyce Cary, 1944
159
1984,
George Orwell, 1949
160
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
Patricia Highsmith, 1955
161
Nine Stories,
J.D. Salinger, 1953
162
On the Road,
Jack Kerouac, 1957
163
Charlotte's Web,
E.B. White, 1952
164
The World According to Garp,
John Irving, 1978
165
The Thin Man,
Dashiell Hammett, 1934
166
Casino Royale,
Ian Fleming, 1953
167
Mrs. Bridge,
Evan S. Connell, 1959
168
Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry, 1947
169
The Sound and the Fury,
William Faulkner, 1929
170
Pale Fire,
Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
171
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,
Shirley Jackson, 1962
172
Brideshead Revisited,
Evelyn Waugh, 1945
173
Claudine at School,
Colette, 1900
174
Love in the Time of Cholera,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
175
Babbitt,
Sinclair Lewis, 1922
176
Parade's End,
Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
177
The Member of the Wedding,
Carson McCullers, 1946
178
Blindness,
Jose Saramago, 1995
179
Tarzan of the Apes,
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
180
My Life As a Man,
Philip Roth, 1979
181
To Kill A Mockingbird,
Harper Lee, 1960
182
Post Office,
Charles Bukowski, 1971
183
The Trial,
Franz Kafka, 1925
184
Dr. Zhivago,
Boris Pasternak, 1957
185
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
J.K. Rowling, 1998
186
The English Patient,
Michael Ondaatje, 1992
187
Howards End,
E.M. Forster, 1910
188
Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis, 1954
189
The End of the Affair,
Graham Greene, 1951
190
Of Mice and Men,
John Steinbeck, 1937
191
A House for Mr. Biswas,
V.S. Naipaul, 1961
192
The Quiet American,
Graham Greene, 1955
193
Kim,
Rudyard Kipling, 1901
194
The Age of Innocence,
Edith Wharton, 1920
195
An American Tragedy,
Theodore Dreiser, 1925
196
Winnie the Pooh,
A.A. Milne, 1926
197
The Sound and the Fury,
William Faulkner, 1929
198
Heart of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad, 1902
199
The Color Purple,
Alice Walker, 1982
200
The Adventures of Augie March,
Saul Bellow
