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

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Source: Book Magazine, March/April 2002, http://www.adherents.com/