Since we only let one character per author move into the bracket, to prevent the Pratchett/Martin/Rowling wars of 2011, today we’re going to have several (and I’m not kidding) votes to narrow down our favorite characters.
To the polls! Grab a snack, this might take a while.
MMMIV Runoff Votes
Narrowing the field down to one character per author.
Margaret Atwood
Offred - The Handmaid's Tale
Mona Aamons Monzano - Cat's Eye
Libba Bray
Adina - Beauty Queens
Gemma Doyle - Gemma Doyle series
Charlotte Bronte
Lucy Snowe - Villette
Jane Eyre
Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
The Leaninsidhe
Karin Murphy
Octavia Butler
Dana Franklin - Kindred
Anyanwu - Wild Seed
Trudi Canavan
Sonea -Black Magician Trilogy/ Traitor Spy Trilogy
Auraya - Age of the Five Trilogy
Gail Carriger
Sophronia Temminnick - The Finishing School series
Alexia Tarrabotti - The Parasol Protectorate
Kristin Cashore
Katsa - Graceling
Fire - Fire series
Bitterblue - Bitterblue
Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next - Thursday Next series
Jennifer Strange - Last Dragonslayer series
E. M. Forster (Howards End)
Helen Schlegel
Margaret Schlegel
Neil Gaiman
Yvaine - Stardust
Death - Sandman series
John Greene
Alaska - Looking for Alaska
Hazel - The Fault in our Stars
N. K. Jemisin
Oree - Broken Kingdoms
Yeine - Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Shahar - Kingdom of the Gods
Stephen King
Susannah Dean - The Dark Tower series
Annie Wilkes - Misery
Barbara Kingsolver
Leah Price - The Poisonwood BIble
Taylor - The Bean Trees
Adah Price - The Poisonwood Bible
Lois Lowry
Anastasia Krupnik (series)
Annemarie - Number the Stars
George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and FIre series)
Sansa Stark
Brienne of Tarth
Catelyn Stark
Arya Stark
Robin McKinley
Sunshine - Sunshine
Harry - The Blue Sword
Cecily - Outlaws of Sherwood
Aerin - The Hero and the Crown
David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
Louisa Ray
Meronym
Sonmi452
Garth Nix
Lireal - Lireal
Sabriel - Sabriel
Phillip Pullman
Sally Lockhart - Ruby in the Smoke
Lyra Belaqua - His Dark Materials trilogy
J.K. Rowling
Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter series)
Sukhvinder Jawanda
William Shakespeare
Paulina - The Winter's Tale
Beatrice - Much Ado about Nothing
Tom Sidell (Gunnerkrigg Court)
Annie
Cat
Maria V. Snyder
Yelena - Study series
Avry - Avry of Kazaan series
Neil Stephensen
Nell - The Diamond Age
Y.T. - Snow Crash
Maggie Stiefvater
Puck - The Scorpio Races
Blue - The Raven Boys series
Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity)
Maddie
Queenie