#TopTenTuesday Bookish Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Bookish Characters. For example, readers, writers, authors, librarians, professors, etc. My list contains a mixture of most of them.

1. Reclusive author, Vida Winter in The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2. Author, bookshop owner and dispenser of ‘literary prescriptions’, Nancy Mitford in The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable
3. Esme, would-be lexicographer in The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
4. J.D. Salinger, aspiring author in Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
5. Temporary library assistant, Aleisha and widower Mukesh in The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
6. The Brontë sisters, authors and lady detectors in The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis
7. Viktor, aspiring author and reluctant obituarist in Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
8. Would-be author, ‘The Literary Innkeeper’ whom Richard Hannay meets in The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
9. Emmett Farmer, apprentice bookbinder in The Binding by Bridget Collins
10. Mr Penumbra, eponymous owner of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan