My Sisters Keeper

I am reading ‘My Sisters Keeper’ right now, and I absolutely love the names! Here are some-

[name]Anna[/name]
[name]Kate[/name]
[name]Jesse[/name]
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Campbell[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Danny[/name]
[name]Fitz[/name] [this was just a nickname]

[name]Do[/name] you know of any other books with exceptional character names? Also, if you have a comment on ‘My Sisters Keeper’, please don’t say anything to spoil it, I’m only half way through!

I read it…have you seen the movie?

nope, not yet. i heard it was terrible compared to the book though! but that is usually the case.

[name]Anita[/name] Shreve always has great names for her characters! And she is an incredible author- some names that I can remember
[name]Thomas[/name]
[name]Adeline[/name]
[name]Maren[/name]
Anethe
[name]Billie[/name] (short for [name]Wilhelmina[/name])
[name]Sydney[/name]
[name]Olympia[/name]
Saartje
[name]Rafiq[/name]
[name]Patrick[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name]
[name]Silas[/name]
[name]Owen[/name]
[name]Noelle[/name]
[name]James[/name]

and lots of other fabulous name I can remember!

The Eyre Affair series has really interesting names.

Thursday
[name]Landon[/name]
[name]Anton[/name]
Joffy (I’m pretty sure this is nickname that is never explained)
Mycroft
Acheron
Styx
[name]Polly[/name]
[name]Jack[/name]
[name]Filbert[/name]
[name]Daphne[/name]
[name]Cordelia[/name]
Aornis
[name]Randolph[/name]
[name]Lola[/name]
Millon (from Mill on The [name]Floss[/name])
[name]Tuesday[/name]
Friday

Mostly the names are really witty jokes.

I read another [name]Jodie[/name] Picoult book a while ago called Handle With Care and discovererd the name [name]Willow[/name], something I’d never before considered but now love :slight_smile:

I loved the names in Handle With Care! [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Piper[/name], [name]Charlotte[/name], [name]Sean[/name]=fabulous! [name]Jodi[/name] has amazing taste in character names. (Can’t jump on the [name]Willow[/name] train, though; That name will always remind me of the movie, lol.

[name]Alexis[/name]

I always thought that [name]Shakespeare[/name] had some wonderful names in his plays.
Boys
[name]Adrian[/name], [name]Horatio[/name], [name]Cornelius[/name], [name]Lysander[/name], [name]Lucius[/name], [name]Sebastian[/name], [name]Tobias[/name], [name]Corin[/name], [name]Antony[/name], [name]Balthazar[/name], Banquo, [name]Benedick[/name] (his spelling), [name]Caius[/name], [name]Cassius[/name], [name]Claudius[/name], [name]Cymbeline[/name] (yes, it’s male for [name]William[/name] but now probably would be more appropriate for a female), [name]Demetrius[/name], [name]Edmund[/name], [name]Fabian[/name], [name]Fenton[/name], [name]Ferdinand[/name], [name]Frederick[/name], [name]Hector[/name], [name]Hugh[/name], [name]Jaques[/name], Lear, [name]Ludovico[/name], [name]Nathaniel[/name], [name]Oberon[/name], [name]Oliver[/name], [name]Orlando[/name], [name]Pedro[/name], [name]Prospero[/name], [name]Titus[/name] & Shylock
Girls
[name]Rosalind[/name], [name]Viola[/name], [name]Celia[/name], [name]Marina[/name], [name]Silvia[/name], [name]Desdemona[/name], [name]Ophelia[/name], [name]Helena[/name], [name]Hero[/name], [name]Portia[/name], [name]Cordelia[/name], [name]Miranda[/name], [name]Hermia[/name], [name]Titania[/name], [name]Juliet[/name], [name]Beatrice[/name] , [name]Adriana[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Audrey[/name], [name]Bianca[/name], Calpurnia, [name]Cressida[/name], [name]Diana[/name], [name]Eleanor[/name], [name]Emilia[/name], [name]Francisca[/name], Goneril, [name]Hermione[/name], Hippolyta, [name]Imogen[/name], [name]Isabella[/name], [name]Jessica[/name], [name]Julia[/name], [name]Lavinia[/name], [name]Margery[/name], [name]Mariana[/name], [name]Nerissa[/name], [name]Octavia[/name], [name]Paulina[/name], [name]Perdita[/name], [name]Rosaline[/name], [name]Tamora[/name], [name]Ursula[/name], [name]Valeria[/name] & [name]Olivia[/name]