Happy Tuesday everyone! As it is Tuesday, it is time for a Top Ten Tuesday update. Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and is currently being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s given topic is Bookish People I’d Like To Meet
These can be authors, book characters, book bloggers/influencers, cover designers, cover models, etc. There is this saying that goes one shouldn’t go meet the people they idolize. But hey, if I do get the chance here, are some of the writers and literary characters I would like to meet for various reasons. I do actually have a long list but here are some of the names that come to mind; for the writers, I have also excluded some who have already passed away.
Writers
- Salman Rushdie
- Haruki Murakami
- Olga Tokarczuk
- Margaret Atwood
- Maryse Condé
- Orhan Pamuk
- Charlotte Brontë
- Isabel Allende
- Mieko Kawakami
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literary Characters
- Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
- Harry Potter, Hermoine Granger, and Ron Weasley from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
- Heathcliff from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
- Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- David Copperfield from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
- Renée Michel from Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Alexis Zorba from Nikos Kazantzakis’ Zorba the Greek
- Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple from Agatha Chritie’s detective books
- Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
- Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
- Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Owen Meany from John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Jo March from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
- Clarissa Dalloway from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
- The Little Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince