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

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 Barron in the Trees, 1957, Italo Calvino, 1957
29. Winnie
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
Boody 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. Geoffry 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
Babbit, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
76. Christopher Tietjens
Parade's End, Fox Madox ford, 1924-28
77. Frankie Addams
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien
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
Howard's 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, 1951
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, 1953