Writers as Characters in Fiction

1

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

26,570 members

401 reviews

4

9 Members: Aquila, aulsmith, DeusXMachina, chgstrom, sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

28,185 members

504 reviews

4

7 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, si, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

It

by Stephen King

22,005 members

410 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hipdeep, chgstrom, blackdove07, sturlington, si, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,475 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: Aquila, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

21,257 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: aulsmith, elkiedee, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, Tinuvia, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: Tinuvia: Stephen Dedalus

6

Possession

by A.S. Byatt

12,980 members

289 reviews

4

6 Members: DeusXMachina, sturlington, elkiedee, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

9,225 members

294 reviews

4.1

6 Members: Aquila, merrystar, elkiedee, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

29,569 members

562 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: Aquila, elkiedee, ahef1963, Tinuvia, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: Tinuvia: Anne Shirley

9

The Shining

by Stephen King

23,250 members

453 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

12,738 members

232 reviews

3.9

5 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Virginia Woolf

11

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

20,462 members

466 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, blackdove07, Tinuvia, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: Tinuvia: Master

12

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,832 members

415 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963

13

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

17,245 members

911 reviews

4

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

14

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

16,491 members

384 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, ahef1963

15

‘Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

16,374 members

295 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, si, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

16,290 members

167 reviews

4

4 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963

17

Misery

by Stephen King

15,377 members

208 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963

18

Desperation

by Stephen King

9,610 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Dark Half

by Stephen King

8,982 members

70 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Finders Keepers

by Stephen King

4,485 members

198 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963

21

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,934 members

389 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: F. Alexander

22

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,929 members

532 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,746 members

276 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, Tinuvia, TammyPatrick
Explanations: Tinuvia: David Copperfield

24

Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

11,012 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

9,329 members

81 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963

26

Lisey's Story

by Stephen King

8,547 members

196 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Wonder Boys

by Michael Chabon

4,315 members

104 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington

28

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,951 members

94 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

29

Ghost Story

by Peter Straub

3,851 members

113 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, si, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: si: Don Wanderley

30

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

3,357 members

110 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Aquila, elkiedee, ahef1963

31

The Diviners

by Margaret Laurence

1,192 members

19 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

32

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

46,945 members

283 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: Aquila, ahef1963

33

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

27,980 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, Tinuvia
Explanations: sturlington: DNF
Tinuvia: Sal Paradise, Carlo Marx, Old Bull Lee

34

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

26,545 members

629 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

35

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,456 members

1,248 reviews

4.2

3 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : I didn't think this was that good.

36

The World According to Garp

by John Irving

15,317 members

196 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

37

The Dark Tower

by Stephen King

10,850 members

184 reviews

4.1

2 Members: chgstrom, sturlington

38

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

7,971 members

140 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, Tinuvia
Explanations: Dilara86: Poet
Tinuvia: John Shade

39

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

7,921 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

40

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

4,506 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Siegfried Sassoon

41

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

4,424 members

234 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

42

Emily of New Moon

by L. M. Montgomery

4,096 members

74 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

43

Magpie Murders

by Anthony Horowitz

3,862 members

236 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

44

Euphoria

by Lily King

2,655 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Margaret Mead, anthropologist

45

The Keep

by Jennifer Egan

1,997 members

96 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Bunny

by Mona Awad

1,822 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

47

I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

by Glen Duncan

1,373 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: blackdove07, ManWithAnAgenda

48

The Book of Salt

by Monique Truong

1,232 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aulsmith, JuliaMaria
Explanations: aulsmith: Gertrude Stein
JuliaMaria: Gertrude Stein, gesehen von ihrem Koch

49

Hangsaman

by Shirley Jackson

795 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Territory

by Emma Bull

739 members

42 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington
Explanations: aulsmith: She's a journalist

51

Devil House

by John Darnielle

669 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Love Among the Chickens

by P. G. Wodehouse

621 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

53

Tonio Kröger

by Thomas Mann

593 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, JuliaMaria

54

Kill Creek

by Scott Thomas

562 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Night Ocean

by Paul La Farge

428 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

56

A Haunting on the Hill

by Elizabeth Hand

253 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Upstairs House

by Julia Fine

130 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,080 members

317 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

59

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

8,443 members

354 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

60

The Paris Wife

by Paula McLain

6,086 members

370 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald

61

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

by John Scalzi

4,922 members

431 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

62

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,017 members

65 reviews

4.1

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Van Veen

63

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

3,941 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Flaubert

64

Commonwealth

by Ann Patchett

3,665 members

191 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

65

Living to Tell the Tale

by Gabriel García Márquez

3,438 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: blackdove07

66

Billy Summers

by Stephen King

2,604 members

86 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

67

Circling the Sun

by Paula McLain

1,984 members

182 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Beryl Markham

68

Later

by Stephen King

1,942 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

69

The Land of Laughs

by Jonathan Carroll

1,435 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: blackdove07

70

The Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

1,185 members

14 reviews

4

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Vergil

71

Blue Angel

by Francine Prose

1,002 members

31 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

72

Lotte in Weimar

by Thomas Mann

807 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Goethe

73

An Expert in Murder

by Nicola Upson

799 members

49 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Josephine Tey, #1 in series of 9 books

74

Frankissstein

by Jeanette Winterson

716 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Mary Shelley, Shelley. Byron

75

Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes

by Daniel Kehlmann

667 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Leo Richter

76

Love and Ruin

by Paula McLain

653 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway

77

The Red Tree

by Caitlín R. Kiernan

623 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

78

The Bell at Sealey Head

by Patricia A. McKillip

594 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

79

Letter from an Unknown Woman

by Stefan Zweig

591 members

35 reviews

4

Member: DeusXMachina

80

Vladimir

by Julia May Jonas

507 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

81

What Are You Going Through

by Sigrid Nunez

431 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

82

About the Author

by John Colapinto

392 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

83

Jo of the Chalet School

by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

359 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

84

You Should Have Left

by Daniel Kehlmann

356 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

85

Memories of the Future

by Siri Hustvedt

312 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: DeusXMachina

86

F

by Daniel Kehlmann

308 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Arthur

87

The Hook

by Donald E. Westlake

304 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

88

The Uninvited

by Dorothy Macardle

251 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

89

True Story

by Kate Reed Petty

250 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

90

The Subterraneans / Pic

by Jack Kerouac

248 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: The Subterraneans: Leo Percepied, Frank Carmody, Adam Moorad

91

Looking Glass Sound

by Catriona Ward

241 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

92

The Body Lies

by Jo Baker

239 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

93

A Country Road, A Tree

by Jo Baker

237 members

11 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Samuel Beckett

94

The Widow's House

by Carol Goodman

234 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

95

Hudson River Bracketed

by Edith Wharton

220 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

96

A Distant Shore

by Caryl Phillips

219 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Jean Rhys

97

Mrs Engels

by Gavin McCrea

161 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

98

Palace of the Drowned

by Christine Mangan

143 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

99

American Mermaid

by Julia Langbein

137 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

100

Shirley

by Susan Scarf Merrell

137 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

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