25 Authors and the Book Characters They'd Be Best Friends With
25 Authors and the Book Characters They'd Be Best Friends With
Has a book character ever resonated with you so much that you thought you could be best friends? Ever wondered which characters your favorite authors would be best friends with? Scroll down to see how these 25 authors answered this question. And if you want to read more, check out this post with answers from 25 different authors on the book characters they’d be best friends with.
Feyisayo Anjorin
Nate in John Grisham's "The Testament" is a man with many inner battles. Such a complex dude. I would love to meet him and be friends.
C.T. Rwizi
Andrew Dahl from Red Shirts. I don’t think I’ve read anything else that made me laugh so much.
Heidi Perks
Nancy Drew (or so I believed when I was a child!)
Elissa R. Sloan
Lucy from The Hating Game -- she's hilarious!
Jessica O'Dwyer
Andrea Sachs from Devil Wears Prada. We could compare notes on working in creative fields under exacting bosses. And with luck, she’d throw in fashion advice.
Barbara Mahany
Fern, the defiant farm girl who would not let the runt of the litter be put to the ax. I'm talking "Charlotte's Web," of course.
Tom Ellen
Probably Adrian Mole (from Sue Townsend's 'Diary of Adrian Mole' series) or the unnamed narrator from Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds'. Both are quite similar to how I was as a teenager: scruffy, anxious over-thinkers with lofty literary aspirations...
Emily Carpenter
Jo from Little Women. I'm more of an Amy, if I'm being honest, but I think I'd be besties with Jo.
Carol M. Cram
Emma in "Emma" by Jane Austen because she's intelligent, witty, interesting, and a bit deluded. She'd probably be a good conversationalist when she's not matchmaking.
Loreth Anne White
Barbara Havers in Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series. (The book version, as I see her, rather than the TV version :) )
Nicci French (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French)
Sean: That's easy. I'd like to be best friends with Mrs Ramsay, one of the central characters in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. She's the best portrait of a friend in all of literature: she looks out for everyone, thinks of everyone, understands everyone; endlessly alert, endlessly caring. Woolf based the character on her own mother.
Nicci: I think I need to chose Jane Eyre (from Charlotte Bronte's novel of that name) , because I feel as if I have been friends with her since I first met her, when I was about thirteen and was blown away by the passion, anger and disobedience of this small plain invisible woman.
Priscilla Paton
Hmm, we give literary characters so many issues that they can be difficult. When I was young, Trixie Belden. Now, Deborah Crombie's detective pair Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James.
Katie Sise
I'd like to be friends with any of Fiona Davis's historical heroines :)
Alexandra Monir
I absolutely love Manu from Romina Russell's LOBIZONA, and as the daughter of immigrants myself, I feel we could relate to each other on a best-friends level.
Melissa Croce
Alex Claremont-Diaz from RED WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston. We're both overly opinionated and I think have a similar sense of humor!
Jason Pinter
No idea, I think between having two small children, writing books, and a full-time job I'm unfortunately firmly grounded in reality!
Melissa Oliver
I’ve always loved Elisabeth Bennett as she’s pragmatic, intelligent and not afraid to laugh at herself.
Katharyn Blair
I like to think I'd be best friends with Selah from Anna Bright's "Beholder" duology. The girl has some serious gumption!
Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman
Tracy: Claire Randall from OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon. She’s smart, brave, loyal, resourceful, tolerant, and overflowing with a generous and loving spirit—much like the friends I have IRL. Plus, she’s already helped me through one difficult time in my life when I was so distraught by a family health crisis that I could barely read a magazine, let alone a book. A friend recommended two series to get me out of my reading funk. First, TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer, which I devoured. And second, the OUTLANDER series. Both series provided fascinating and effortless escapes from my worries, but it was Claire who won my heart.
Wendy: My real-life BFFs are better than any character I’ve ever read in a book, but I would choose Charity & Sid Lang in the novel CROSSING TO SAFETY by Wallace Stegner. In my opinion, there is no greater gift than those life-long, deep friendships that build over time as you raise your families, develop your careers, celebrate the good times, and weather the difficult ones together.
Lauren Edmondson
Any of the girls from Jane Austen - Marianne Dashwood for her liveliness and honesty, Emma Woodhouse because of her good heart and humor, any of the Bennet sisters (except Lydia). On second thought, I'm so desperate for socialization during Covid times, I may not even strike Lydia from the list. Once bars are open and safe, we could go out and have some serious laughs.
Andrew Mayne
Clifford the Big Red Dog. Norman Bridwell
Jaclyn Goldis
Elizabeth Wakefield from the Sweet Valley series created by Francine Pascal. Oh how I loved those books as a kid. Liz is kind and a great friend, loves to write, and is a bit quieter and introspective but still fun. (Her twin, Jessica, may occasionally disagree on the fun point.)
Olivia Campbell
Elizabeth Bennet from "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. That probably sounds cliché, but it's one of my favorite novels. I credit Jane Austen with inspiring me to move to the UK after high school.
Allison Brennan
Agatha Christie's Miss. Marple. She reminds me of my grandma!
Kelly Bowen
There are so many characters who have lived on in my imagination since I met them in a story but one of the ones who have stuck with me the most was the character of Aziza in Alice Hoffman's 'The Dovekeepers'. Aziza charts her own path in life and that is something I very much admire and aspire to.
