Guess which is my favorite character in each; I'll alter the list (
BTW: If there's anything here that you haven't read? I'd recommend doing so. It's all books I've chosen as being damned well worth reading.
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2. A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
3. The Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe
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5. The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte
6. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
7. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas
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9. Bones of the Moon, Jonathan Carroll
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