This week Marlon & Jake discuss memorable characters from books by dead authors—who they love, who they despise and everything in between. What exactly makes a character great? Who would they invite to their literary dinner party and why? From Elmore Leonard’s Raylan to Louisa May Alcott’s Jo March, Lady Macbeth to Auntie Mame—tune in to hear which fictional personalities would get a seat at the table, who would be banished forever, and who Marlon and Jake would simply ignore.
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Pronto by Elmore Leonard
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Parker novels by Richard Stark
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
- The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Stuart Little by E.B. White
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