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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