Books With the Most Complex Characters

Characters who feel completely real — contradictory, surprising, impossible to forget.

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Different Seasons by Stephen King
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-worship by James Branch Cabell
The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs
Insomnia by Stephen King

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