Who are your favorite male protagonists?
Who are your favorite male protagonists ?
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Lestat, Mr. Rochester, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade.
I do love Lestat.
Myron Bolitar & Win. Also, Jack Reacher.
Peter Wimsey, Harry Hole, Harry Bosch, Poirot, Mr. Darcy.
John Corey.
Gus in Lonesome Dove.
Atticus Finch and Rabo Karabekian
Jamie from Outlander
Gilbert Blythe, Harry Potter, all of the Austen heroes
Bond, James Bond.
Harry Dresden, Inspector Gamache
Have you read all of the Dresden books? I just finished #4 and am just now starting to find him likable.
@Amanda, all but the most recent. I like him because he’s so flawed and I envision him as the actor who portrayed him in the short lived series.
@Leslie I’ve kept going mostly due to others’ like of him and my fondness for the actor who voices the audiobooks ?
I loved his voice and ‘read’ by listening to the audio books in my car. There is one book that was read by another and I wasn’t happy. I realized that it was due to the specific theme of the character in that book. If you ever get to it, you’ll understand.
I hope you continue. ?
Mr. Darcy or Atticus,of course!
Bertie Wooster.
Frodo and Sam.
Lymond from Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Have not thought about that series for ages!
@Annette I belong to the Dorothy Dunnett readers Association. We read, reread and discuss. A very intelligent group
Harry Potter and Atticus Finch.
Ender Wiggin
Nick Carraway
Jamie Frazer.
Kvothe from “Name of the Wind.”
Double plus like!
Atticus Finch
If I ever had a son, his name would have been Atticus! I mentioned this to my husband recently, and he said “Why didn’t you say so sooner?” Sadly, I think it’s too late (but he’s willing to give it the ole college try ?).
One of my teacher friends named her daughter Scout!
Bruno, Chief
Of Police, & Jack Reacher!
those Martin Walker mysteries are really good
@Liz I now want to read his nonfiction. He’s so smart!!
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Laugh out loud funny.
Sorry – meant to put this on another post
He’s going to be at Book Passage bookstore in San Francisco this coming Sunday. ?
He is great!
He is such a nice human being. So kind in person and oh, so funny.
John Ames, ‘Gilead’
Atticus Finch
Yup
Atticus Finch, Albus Dumbledore, Gus and Call from Lonesome Dove
Count Alexander Rostov from A Gentleman in Moscow.
Judah Ben Hur, Doctor Zhivago, Mr DeWinter, Mr Benedict, Pip, Mr Finch, Perry Mason, Tarzan, …
James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
Howard Roark from The Fountainhead
Port Moresby
Owen Meany
Ovi
Dominick Birdsey in Wally’s Lamb’s I Know This Much is True.
I can’t wait for the movie!
@Chris I read that it is going to be a limited edition series on HBO. with Mark Ruffalo cast as Dominick and Thomas. No info about when it is supposed to air.
Atticus, Ponyboy, Holden, Harry Potter
Guido Brunetti 🙂
Donna Leon mysteries-excellent!
@Liz, they are indeed!
Atticus Finch, Harry Potter, Salvo Monatlbano, John Rebus, Yossarian, Owen Meaney, Mr. Knightley
Count Alexander Rostov
Jack Aubery
James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser from Outlander, for so many reasons.
The Horse Whisperer
Rhett Butler. Four
Harry Potter
I forgot Frodo?
Hooray for Frodo!
Frodo lives?
Atticus
Atticus Finch, Cork O’Connor ((William Kent Krueger series; )Joe Pickett (C.J. Box series;) Inspector Gamache(Louise Penny series).
Love Joe Pickett
Samwise Gamgee. Although Frodo gets so much attention, Sam is a true hero. He didn’t have to be there. He wasn’t the chosen. But he was, and where would Frodo have been without him?
Love Samwise!
Aloysius Pendergast
Jake from Manhunting
Edmund Dantes
Armand Gamache and Arthur Bryant
Walt @Longmire
Valentine Michael Smith
Cork O’Connor and Jonathan Stride
Dirk Pitt… from a series by Clive Cussler…
Arthur Dent
Where can I get a copy of the list of 100 books?
Alex Cross!
Mitch Rapp [Vince Flynn books]
Darcy, Armand Gamache, Travis McGee, Atticus!
Travis McGee! There’s a name from the past. John D. MacDonald is one of my favorites. I think I’ve got every single one of the TMG paperbacks stashed in a box somewhere. My mom back in the 70s got me started on those books. Thanks for the memory. Oh and you have a very pretty kitty ?
@Sherrie Thank you. Yes I just had to include Travis as I too had a crush on him and read all of the “color” books.
Got it! Thanks!
Alyosha Karamazov in “The Brothers Karamazov”
Ned Stark, Game of Thrones. John Grady Cole, The Border Trilogy. The father, The Road
Rhett Butler, Atticus Finch, Rudy Steiner, Hans Hubermann, Count Alexander Rostov
Poldark, James Herriot.
Mr. Thornton from North and South, Mr. Darcy , Mr. Knightly and Jamie Frazer
Ove!
Spenser
Great character. Loved his relationship with Susan.
@Barbara and Pearl
Walt Longmire
Jack Reacher
Love Jack Reacher. Couldn’t watch the movie though 😉
I have many but the most recent one is Count Alexander Rostov!!!!!!
Yes!
F’lar, F’nor, Robinton, Piemur, Alex Cross, Longmire.
Harry Bosch
Thomas Lynley
Yes 🙂
Gus McCrae and Darcy
James Frasier, Rhett Butler, Atticus Finch, Mr. Darcy.
Atticus Finch; Rhett Butler
James Fraser
dorian gray <3
Mr. Darcy, Lassiter, The Chairman,
Hercule Poirot
Kaladin Stormblessed ??
What she said. ☝️
Alex Cross.
I like Alex Cross, too.
@Tammy I love that series. I’ve read all of them.
Me, too. Love Alex Cross and Woman’s Murder Club series. I go ahead and add them to my “wish list” on Amazon when they first announce they are coming out so I won’t miss them!
Charlie Chan- I love the original stories
I thought I eas the only one who read them
@Pamela -I love the descriptions of old Hawaii and San Fancisco
Sherlock Holmes
Jean Valjean
The narrator from Tim O’Brien’s Tomcat in Love. On the one hand, I was mad at him all the time, but he was extremely, extremely compelling. I felt tricked by that book! I’ve never read or experienced such a thing.
Stacy Pratt, you’ve got me intrigued…have read other books of his but not this one, going on my tbrl now.
Richard Jury
Atticus, longmire, James Herriot, poirot ,Foyle from Foyles war
James Herriot, Rhett Butler, Atticus Finch ?
Dirk Pitt
Peter Wimsey
Wallander
Also the Nameless Detective
Matthew Clairmont
Edmond Dantes
Augustus McCrea (Lonesome Dove), Michel Bloomquist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Tyrion Lancaster (Game of Thrones), Sam Damon (Once an Eagle), Air Ben Canaan (Exodus), Newland Archer (The Age of Innocence) ….
Love Tyrion!
George smiley
Harry Bosch and Armand Gamache.
Nykyrian Quiakides
Brook, Atticus Finch, Ignatious Reilly, Jamie Frasier, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Lestat, George Smiley, Inspector Lynley, Inspector Dalgliesh, Jeeves, Dr. Zhivago
Jeeves?
Atticus Finch, Edmond Dantes, Peter Pan
Harry Bosch
Jaime Frazier,yurt zhivago,
Yuri
Gus McCrea! Jamie Frazer
Atticus.
Radcliffe Emerson, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Roarke
Lincoln Rhyme
Patrick Melrose
John Gray
Cotton Malone, Arthur Pepper, Pete Decker (Philip R Craig’s Martha’s Vineyard mysteries) William Tapply wrote a good series as well. Also The Harper of Pern.
Jamie (Outlander)
Aloysius Pendergast. Gabriel Allon.
James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser
I like the flawed, but striving to improve ones. The best example is Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, but there are many good ones in novels. J. P. Beaumont is the first one that comes to mind, but there are many more and some better.
I like Jack Reacher. Also, Amos Decker is a great character.
Bastian Bux from The Neverending Story and Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.
Alex Delaware and J P Beaumont
Pendergast
100000000xS yes!
@Jessica my daughter and I love him.
@Kathy <3 he has been my favorite for years.
YES. Good one. Love him!
Percy Jackson, Pendergast, James Qwilleran and Inspector @Morse
Edmond Dantes, Atticus Finch, Rhett Butler & Count Alexander Rostov from A Gentleman in Moscow! ♥️
Burke and Dave Robichaux
Harry Dresden.
I like minor characters usually better than the main ones.
Bernie Gunther
Repairman Jack.
JOHN GRADY COLE “ALL THE PRETTY HORSES’ yOSSARIAN “cATCH 22” “THE THIEF AND ORPHAN IN “tHE aSSISTANT” BERNARD MALAMUD
Love the 1st two but haven’t read the Malamud
Malamud is ….was a beast…Jewish identity jive ,,,, THE FIXER u have to read it and think of yourselves caught up in life as is ,The assistant is about accidents and history and continuity of one man joining a family a true continuity develops…mythology and Revelations my computer blink..MALAMUD<,,,
@Ray thanks for the edification
This is touchy since i am not ot the ERA YOU FLOW yet since 1961 have been Reading MINDS like MALAMUD….Sillitoe…ALGREN folks that are IN THE STREETS of THE 50’s 60’s and Investigate the tribal flux continuity of narrative beside THEME presents a DEVELOPING MIND for reflections…..it is ROUGH, ifeel PASSION is a MOFO Cormac McCarthy mentions th e at history of the subconscious.I!
Atticus Finch, Rhett Butler, Guy Montag
Sandman Slim and Joe Pickett
Jon Snow and Ned Stark (Game of Thrones), Konstantin Levin (Anna Karenina), Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea), Joshua Slocum (Sailing Alone Around the World), Anatole Ngemba (Poisonwood Bible), Luka (Luka and tbe Fire of Life)
Evan Smoak- Orphan X
James Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Frazier – Outlander
Jamie Fraser!
Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly of the Irish Doctor series by Patrick Taylor
Lord Peter whimsey, Armand gamache
Atticus Finch and Mr. Darcy
Macon Leary in THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, Joe Harmon in A TOWN LIKE ALICE, Capt. Frederick Wentworth in PERSUASION. HALL OF FAMERS: Rhett Butler, Mr. Darcy, Harry Potter, and Atticus Finch.
James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie ?
Gus MacRae
Mr. Darcy and Albus Dumbledore
Harry Bosch
Prior Philip.
Alex Cross, Bernie Sanders
Atticus Finch, Billy Coleman, from Where The Red Fern Grows, Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby, Tom, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Like Jesus, he would rather die, then reveal the whereabouts of Cassy and Emmeline, to Simon Legree. And he forgives his killers, before he dies!!!!?
Jack Ryan!
Darcy, Colonel Brandon, Paul Atreides, Jon Snow and Ned Stark.
Have to add Atticus Finch and Tyrion Lannister. How could I forget those two!
Mark Darcy and Finnick from The Hunger Games trilogy
Odd Thomas
Mr. Collins
Lololol??????
Hmmmmm….LOL!
Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast
Atticus Finch
Virgil Flowers
Tyrion Lannister and Kaladin Stormblessed
Ponyboy Curtis
Cork O’Connor from Wm. Kent Krueger’s book series.
Lucas Davenport
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan
Colonel Brandon, Mr Darcy, Professor Bhaer
Harry Bosch
piscine patel!
He who must not be named…..
Horse Badorties
Mikael Blomkvist
Jason Dessen (Dark Matter)
Kilgore Trout
Tom Joad
Michelle Pfeiffer
Heathcliff
Alex Delaware
Wesley Snipes/Blade
Jamie Fraser, Outlander!!! Even over Mr Darcy!
Count Alexander Rostov
Walt Longmire; Joe Pickett; Elvis Cole
Harry Potter
Stone barrington
Harry Potter, Atticus Finch, ARAGORN, Severus Snape.
Ove from A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Greatest. Curmudgeon. Ever.
Heathcliff, Darcy, Major Major
Prix
James Fraser
Jesus, Atticus, Huckleberry, Holden, and MobeyDick if that was (his?) name.
Captain Ahab
Spenser!
Rhett Butler…Poirot…Jean val Jean…
Jean Valjean
Jamie..yes..from Outlander. Gus from Lonesome Dove……
Well, of course, Rhett Butler! I love a suave, debonair manly man. The limp-wristed, pale-faced Ashley Wilkes, not so much! ?. ALSO, I adore Jim, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for his humanity, honesty, vulnerability and strength of body, mind, and spirit. Jim was one of the first characters in American literature to be depicted in full, 3-dimensional flesh and blood! I credit Twain greatly for showing his readers that color is only skin deep. He held nothing back in depicting the stupidity of slavery. Many readers today fault Twain for using the N word 400 times, but he was telling a story of his time and that is the way that it was. We cannot sugarcoat the horror of that word—instead, we need to learn to view the story through the lens of historical context…and be open to dialogue about it. That is how our children develop the ability to think critically!
Wow! Well said. And yes, on Rhett! (Ashley? …heck no!)
Alex Cross, Harry Bosch, JP Beaumont (can you tell I like mysteries???)
Love Harry Bosch
John Grady Cole
Balso Snell
Atticus Finch
Mr. Darcy and Owen Meany
Inspector Gamache
Armand Gamache, from the Louise Penny novels.
Elizabeth Corley’s Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick.
Jamie from Outlander, Rhett Butler from GWTW
You and I think exactly alike, @Annette!
Stormy Daniel’s
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Anne Shirley.