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Inspired by this article, Sheila posted earlier today, asking readers about their favorite fictional characters as well as listing her own. Her criteria?

I guess that, above all, was my criteria: a character who transcends his or her own genre, who steps up off the flat page, and lives. Lives on, long after you finish the book. Like Cathy in East of Eden. Or The Grand Inquisitor in Brothers Karamazov.

Without further ado, Here's my own list of favorite fictional characters.....

John Grady Cole. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Stephen Mathurin. Master and Commander (and many others) by Patrick O'Brian.
Beren. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Luggage. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett.
Travis McGee. The Deep Blue Goodbye (and many others) by John D. MacDonald.
Francis Crawford of Lymond. The Game of Kings and others by Dorothy Dunnett.
Robert Jordan. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Scaramouche. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.
Tyrel Sackett. The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour.
Danny. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard.