1. Guy Crouchback, Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte, and Tony Last. Henry James Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde Evelyn Waugh

2. Homer Wells, Win Berry, State O' Maine, Jenny Fields, and the Ellen Jamesians. Fenimore Cooper Dave Barry Jack Kerouac John Irving

3. Janet Sandison, Twice Alexander, George, Tom, and Friends. Jane Duncan Sue Grafton Miss Read Emily Bronte

4. Buck, Perrault, Martin Eden, and Wolf Larsen. Stephen Crane Jack London Frank Norris Robert Service

5. George Smiley, Leamas, Karla, and "the Cousins". John Le Carre Michael Innes Ken Follett Ian Fleming

6. Claudia Kishi, Mary Ann Spier, Kristy Thomas-Brewer, and Stacy McGill. Ann M. Martin L. M. Montgomery Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Louisa May Alcott

7. Elinor Dashwood, Anne Eliot, Fanny Price, and Emma Woodhouse. Jane Austen Mrs. Radcliffe Thomas Hardy Colette

8. Augustus McRae, Woodrow Call, Aurora Greenway, and Jacy Farrow. John Cheever J. D. Salinger Annie Proulx Larry McMurtry

9. Psmith, Lord Emsworth, Mr. Mulliner, and Bertram Wooster Ogden Nash Stephen Fry James Thurber P.G. Wodehouse

10. Duddy Kravitz, Solomon Gursky, Atuk, and Jacob Two-Two. Mordecai Richler Chaim Potok Saul Bellow Bernard Malamud

11. Freddy, Mrs. Wiggins, Mrs. Wogus, Simon and Jinx. Walter R, Brooks Ross MacDonald John Steinbeck Russell Hoban

12. Nora Bonesteel, Spencer Arrowood, Elizabeth MacPherson, and A.P.Hill. Linda Howard Elizabeth Peters Sharyn McCrumb Barbara Kingsolver

13. Lady Verinder, Sergeant Cuff, Gabriel Betteredge, and Count Foscoe. George Orwell Mark Twain Wilkie Collins Louisa May Alcott

14. Steve Carella, Fat Ollie Weeks, Meyer Meyer and Matthew Hope. Irwin Shaw Ring Lardner John D. MacDonald Ed McBain

15. David Balfour, Dick Shelton, Squire Trelawney, and Jim Hawkins. William Thackeray Mark Twain Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Dickens

16. Inspector Japp, Captain Hastings, Ariadne Oliver, Tommy and Tuppence. Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh Agatha Christie P.D. James

17. Dr. Aziz, Lucy Honeychurch, Margaret Schlegel, and Vashti. E.M. Forster Mary Renault Hermann Hesse Dalton Trumbo

18. Harry Flashman, John Charity Spring, and Rudi von Starnberg. George MacDonald Fraser Michael Innes Elmore Leonard Alistair MacLean

19. Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, Janet Pete, and Captain Largo. Steve Brewer J.A. Jance Tony Hillerman Raymond Chandler

20. Grace Marks, Marian McAlprin, Offred, and Lesje. W.O. Mitchell Margaret Atwood Alice Munro Iris Murdoch

21. Fritz Brenner, Theodore Horstmann, Inspector Cramer, and Archie Goodwin. Ellery Queen Robert B. Parker Rex Stout Erle Stanley Gardner

22. Jack Torrance, Bobby Garfield, Charlie McGee, and John Coffey. John Updike Stephen King Sinclair Lewis Anthony Burgess

23. Clarence, Jim, Joe Harper, Aunt Polly, and the Duke. Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain George Orwell William Faulkner

24. Hagar Shipley, Vanessa MacLeod, Morag Gunn and the town of Manawaka. Margaret Laurence Rachel Carson Willa Cather Harper Lee

25. The Duke of Denver, Bunter, Chief Detective-Inspector Parker, and Harriet Vane. Agatha Christie Margery Allingham Josephine Tey Dorothy L. Sayers