The 50 Most Hated Characters in Literary History

I guess we have to go back to work tomorrow. I know that LBA is already having issues with going back to school as he has been off since December 22. I did score the books that I had on my list this year and it has reminded me that I wanted to post this list of the people you loved to hate while you are reading.

Feel free to discuss here or amongst yourselves. I offer the list without comment, although the post does have a number of interesting comments. Plus, I look skeptically at a list that nails three of the four major characters from Gone With the Wind and doesn't include Ashley Wilkes. Don't rage at me, as the site / post says, "this list is silly fun, not serious business, and compiled from scanning numerous book forums and discussions both online and off."

The 50 Most Hated Characters in Literary History

1. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen - The Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer
2. Cholly Breedlove - The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
3. Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
4. Scarlett O’Hara - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
5. Iago - Othello, William Shakespeare
6. Anita Blake - The Anita Blake series, Laurell K. Hamilton
7. Tom Buchanan - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
9. Dolores Umbridge - The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
10. Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
11. Albert - The Color Purple, Alice Walker
12. Ayla - The Earth’s Children series, Jean M. Auel
13. John Willoughby - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
14. Rhett Butler - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
15. Karen Brewer - The Babysitter’s Club series, Ann M. Martin
16. Humbert Humbert - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
17. Daisy Buchanan - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Catherine Earnshaw - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
19. Mr. and Mrs. Samsa - The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
20. Estella Havisham - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
21. Robert “The Sentry” Reynolds - Marvel Universe
22. Broud - Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
23. Edward Rochester - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
24. Mrs. Ferrars - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
25. Bob Ewell - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
26. Hamlet - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
27. Voldemort - The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
28. Patrick Bateman - American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
29. Big Brother - 1984, George Orwell
30. Rufus - “The Lame Shall Enter First,” Flannery O’Connor
31. Stanley Kowalski - A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
32. Emma Bovary - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
33. Beth March - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
34. Napoleon - Animal Farm, George Orwell
35. Ignatius J. Reilly - A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
36. Romeo Montague - Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
37. Madame Defarge - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
38. The Joker - DC Universe
39. O’Brien - 1984, George Orwell
40. Faye Greener - The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
41. Miss Havisham - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
42. Jack Merridew - Lord of the Flies, William Golding
43. Robert Langdon - Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
44. Abigail Williams - The Crucible, Arthur Miller
45. Amanda Wingfield - The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
46. Kay Scarpetta - The Kay Scarpetta series, Patricia Cornwall
47. The Second Mrs. de Winter - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
48. Melanie Hamilton Wilkes - Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
49. Godot - Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
50. Satan - The Bible