Can you name the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters since 1900 (According to Book Magazine)?

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BookCharacterAuthor
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
UlyssesJames Joyce
Run, RabbitJohn Updike
The Hound of the BaskervillesSir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
UlyssesJames Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
The House of MirthEdith Wharton
Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
The Invisible ManRalph Ellison
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyJohn LeCarre
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
Native SonRichard Wright
In Our TimeErnest Hemingway
Catch-22Joseph Heller
Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
The Big SleepRaymond Chandler
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
The Barron in the TreesItalo Calvino
Winnie the PoohA A Milne
The Tin DrumGunter Grass
Wise BloodFlannery O'Connor
Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth
The MoviegoerWalker Percy
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
BookCharacterAuthor
My Man JeevesP.G. Wodehouse
Henderson the Rain KingSaul Bellow
Remembrance of Things PastMarcel Proust
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
The Cat in the HatDr. Seuss
The Little White BirdJ.M. Barrie
Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry
The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett
Blood Meridian/The Evening Redness in the WestCormac McCarthy
All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren
Master and CommanderPatrick O'Brian
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupery
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark
The Power and the GloryGraham Greene
The SwimmerJohn Cheever
SulaToni Morrison
The StrangerAlbert Camus
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale
My AntoniaWilla Cather
GrendelJohn Gardner
The Horse's MouthJoyce Cary
1984George Orwell
The Talented Mr. RipleyPatricia Highsmith
Nine StoriesJ.D. Salinger
On the RoadJack Kerouac
Charlotte's WebE.B. White
The World According to GarpJohn Irving
The Thin ManDashiell Hammett
Casino RoyaleIan Fleming
Mrs. BridgeEvan S. Connell
Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry
BookCharacterAuthor
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov
We Have Always Lived in the CastleShirley Jackson
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
Claudine At SchoolColette
Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel Garcia Marquez
BabbitSinclair Lewis
Parade's EndFox Madox Ford
The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien
BlindnessJose Saramago
Tarzan of the ApesEdgar Rice Burroughs
My Life as a ManPhilip Roth
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
Post OfficeCharles Bukowski
The TrialFranz Kafka
Dr. ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneJ.K. Rowling
The English PatientMichael Ondaatje
Howard's EndE.M. Forster
Lucky JimKingsley Amis
The End of the AffairGraham Greene
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
A House for Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul
The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene
KimRudyard Kipling
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser
Winnie the PoohA A Milne
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
The Color PurpleAlice Walker
The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow
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