Our Favorite Characters

This week Marlon & Jake discuss memorable characters from books by dead authors—who they love, who they despise and everything in between. What exactly makes a character great?  Who would they invite to their literary dinner party and why?  From Elmore Leonard’s Raylan to Louisa May Alcott’s Jo March, Lady Macbeth to Auntie Mame—tune in to hear which fictional personalities would get a seat at the table, who would be banished forever, and who Marlon and Jake would simply ignore. 

David Copperfield by Charles DickensWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëOliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeLittle Dorrit by Charles DickensCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonBleak House by Charles DickensThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPronto by Elmore LeonardLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottSula by Toni MorrisonLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezThe Parker novels by Richard StarkMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante AlighieriThe Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareAuntie Mame by Patrick DennisTinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le CarréThe Palliser novels by Anthony TrollopeHamlet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoMoby-Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. LewisCharlotte’s Web by E. B. WhiteThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumStuart Little by E.B. White