Writers as Characters in Fiction

1

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

33,314 members

473 reviews

4

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

2

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

32,753 members

560 reviews

4

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

3

It

by Stephen King

25,929 members

466 reviews

4.1

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

4

Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,996 members

159 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

23,564 members

252 reviews

½ 3.7

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

6

Possession

by A. S. Byatt

14,275 members

314 reviews

4

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

7

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

10,162 members

323 reviews

4.1

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

8

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

36,024 members

631 reviews

½ 4.3

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

9

The Shining

by Stephen King

27,435 members

530 reviews

4.1

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

10

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

13,652 members

243 reviews

3.9

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

11

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,891 members

514 reviews

4.2

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

12

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,424 members

429 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963

13

Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

19,106 members

339 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, si, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

18,372 members

932 reviews

4

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

15

Misery

by Stephen King

18,363 members

242 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963

16

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

17,836 members

195 reviews

4

4 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963

17

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,786 members

391 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, Dilara86, ahef1963

18

Desperation

by Stephen King

11,110 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Dark Half

by Stephen King

10,419 members

81 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Finders Keepers

by Stephen King

5,746 members

220 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, chgstrom, sturlington, ahef1963

21

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

29,364 members

601 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,723 members

416 reviews

4

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

23

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

24,143 members

325 reviews

4.1

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

24

Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

12,689 members

157 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

10,722 members

91 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963

26

Lisey's Story

by Stephen King

9,772 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Wonder Boys

by Michael Chabon

4,588 members

105 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington

28

Ghost Story

by Peter Straub

4,407 members

117 reviews

3.8

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

29

Busman's Honeymoon

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,288 members

100 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

30

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster

3,802 members

117 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Aquila, elkiedee, ahef1963

31

The Diviners

by Margaret Laurence

1,292 members

22 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963

32

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

54,827 members

337 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: Aquila, ahef1963

33

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

30,474 members

425 reviews

½ 3.6

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

34

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

28,779 members

665 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

35

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

21,296 members

1,311 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

16,303 members

208 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

37

The Dark Tower

by Stephen King

12,321 members

202 reviews

4.1

2 Members: chgstrom, sturlington

38

Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

9,116 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

39

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

9,025 members

157 reviews

4.2

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

40

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

6,938 members

310 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

41

The Paris Wife

by Paula McLain

6,801 members

388 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald

42

Magpie Murders

by Anthony Horowitz

5,022 members

265 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

43

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

4,926 members

123 reviews

4

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

44

Emily of New Moon

by L. M. Montgomery

4,579 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

45

Bunny

by Mona Awad

3,648 members

135 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Euphoria

by Lily King

3,117 members

174 reviews

3.9

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

47

The Keep

by Jennifer Egan

2,154 members

98 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

48

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

by Glen Duncan

1,459 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: blackdove07, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Book of Salt

by Monique Truong

1,343 members

38 reviews

½ 3.5

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

50

Hangsaman

by Shirley Jackson

1,107 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

51

Devil House

by John Darnielle

1,001 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

52

Kill Creek

by Scott Thomas

804 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Territory

by Emma Bull

776 members

43 reviews

3.8

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

54

Love Among the Chickens

by P. G. Wodehouse

687 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

55

Tonio Kröger

by Thomas Mann

666 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, JuliaMaria

56

A Haunting on the Hill

by Elizabeth Hand

581 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Night Ocean

by Paul La Farge

495 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Upstairs House

by Julia Fine

162 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

59

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

10,747 members

408 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

60

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

9,657 members

338 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

61

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

by John Scalzi

5,831 members

476 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

62

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

4,456 members

71 reviews

4.1

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Van Veen

63

Commonwealth

by Ann Patchett

4,440 members

205 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

64

Flaubert's Parrot

by Julian Barnes

4,309 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria
Explanations: JuliaMaria: Flaubert

65

Billy Summers

by Stephen King

4,144 members

119 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

66

Living to Tell the Tale

by Gabriel García Márquez

3,762 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: blackdove07

67

The Lost Bookshop

by Evie Woods

3,225 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Ernest Hemingway

68

Later

by Stephen King

2,874 members

102 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

69

Circling the Sun

by Paula McLain

2,236 members

187 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Beryl Markham

70

Travels in the Scriptorium

by Paul Auster

2,204 members

68 reviews

3.2

Member: DeusXMachina

71

The Land of Laughs

by Jonathan Carroll

1,513 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: blackdove07

72

The Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

1,391 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Vergil

73

Blue Angel

by Francine Prose

1,069 members

32 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

74

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

by Kevin Wilson

917 members

56 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

75

Lotte in Weimar

by Thomas Mann

897 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Goethe

76

Frankissstein

by Jeanette Winterson

893 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

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

77

An Expert in Murder

by Nicola Upson

881 members

54 reviews

½ 3.4

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

78

Letter from an Unknown Woman

by Stefan Zweig

781 members

36 reviews

4

Member: DeusXMachina

79

Vladimir

by Julia May Jonas

772 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

80

Love and Ruin

by Paula McLain

760 members

47 reviews

3.8

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

81

Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes

by Daniel Kehlmann

721 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Leo Richter

82

The Red Tree

by Caitlín R. Kiernan

702 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

83

The Bell at Sealey Head

by Patricia A. McKillip

635 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

84

What Are You Going Through

by Sigrid Nunez

624 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

85

Looking Glass Sound

by Catriona Ward

548 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

86

You Should Have Left

by Daniel Kehlmann

536 members

27 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

87

Wit's End

by Karen Joy Fowler

499 members

25 reviews

3.1

Member: Aquila

88

Second-Class Citizen

by Buchi Emecheta

480 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

89

About the Author

by John Colapinto

405 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

90

Memories of the Future

by Siri Hustvedt

376 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: DeusXMachina

91

F

by Daniel Kehlmann

374 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Tinuvia
Explanations: Tinuvia: Arthur

92

Jo of the Chalet School

by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

367 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: Aquila

93

The Hook

by Donald E. Westlake

336 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

94

True Story

by Kate Reed Petty

324 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

95

The Uninvited

by Dorothy Macardle

280 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

96

The Body Lies

by Jo Baker

280 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

97

A Country Road, A Tree

by Jo Baker

272 members

11 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Samuel Beckett

98

The Subterraneans / Pic

by Jack Kerouac

267 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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

99

The Widow's House

by Carol Goodman

259 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

100

A Distant Shore

by Caryl Phillips

241 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Jean Rhys

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