Bring out your Lyras, your Katnisses, and more. It’s time to nominate some female characters who live in outer space, fight dragons, slay vampires, and survive in a bleak future. Probably not all at the same time.
Nominate your favorites in the comments. You’ll have until Friday to nominate in this or any other category, and next week we’ll start narrowing the contenders down to those who’ll be in the bracket.
Middlemarch Madness contenders do not need to be the primary focus of the books they occupy. They do not even need to be protagonists. Above all else, MMM contenders are interesting female characters (not to be confused with Strong Female Characters, but there’s some overlap).
Let the nominations begin! May the odds be ever in your choice’s favor. To nominate, tell us your choice’s name, the book or book series they appeared in, and the author. You may nominate as many characters as you’d like.
10 replies on “Middlemarch Madness IV: YA Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Dystopia Nominations”
Blue, The Raven Boys series, Maggie Stiefvater
Puck, The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
Tris, Divergent series, Veronica Roth
Lena, Delirium series, Lauren Oliver
Viola, Chaos Walking series (The Knife of Never Letting Go), Patrick Ness
Miri, Princess Academy books, Shannon Hale
Elisa, Girl of Fire and Thorns series, Rae Carson
Gemma Doyle, Gemma Doyle series, Libba Bray
Alexa Hollon, Defy, Sara B. Larson
Plus all the other ladies everyone else named. This category is the hardest one!
Crap, I almost forgot Jennifer Strange from the Last Dragonslayer books by Jasper Fforde. She’s awesome!
Oh, oh, Terra from Starglass by Phoebe North
Seraphina from Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Alanna, The Song of the Lioness Quartet, Tamora Pierce
Kel, Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce
Karou, Daughter of Smoke and Bone & Days of Blood and Starlight, Laini Taylor
Seraphina, Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
Katsa, Graceling, Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue, Bitterblue, Kristen Cashore
Cimmorene, Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
Ella, Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Obviously, Lyra or GTFO. (Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy)
We’ve said “This is Lyra’s Year” every year. But seriously. THIS is Lyra’s year. Everybody else GTFO.
Harry – The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
hell, let’s say Aerin from The Hero & The Crown, also by R.M.
Lyra – Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
Lirael – Lirael, Garth Nix
Sabriel – Sabriel, G.N.
Cimorene – Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C Wrede
Alanna, Daine, Kel, Beka, Sandry, Tris, Aly from various Tamora Pierce books (sorry, in a hurry, sister wants a donut) (pick whichever you want, just trying to flesh out the competition, also I love them all)
Sophie – Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Jill Pole – Narnia books – CS Lewis
wooo I’ll come back if I think of more, I love Middlemarch Madness and spent most of my teenage years buried in YA fantasy
Sophronia Temminnick from the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger
Katniss Everdeen–The Hunger Games–Suzanne Collins
Luna Lovegood–Harry Potter–J.K. Rowling
Odge Gribble–The Secret of Platform Thirteen–Eva Ibbotson
Scraps–The Oz Books–L. Frank Baum
– “Susannah Dean (a.k.a. Odetta Susannah Holmes/Detta Susannah Walker)”
– Dark Tower Series
– Stephen King
– “Sophie Bangs (a.k.a. Promethea)”
– Promethea
– Alan Moore