Candide by Voltaire (Candide, Pangloss, Cunégonde, Cacambo, etc.)

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Ignatius Riley, Irene Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Lana Lee, Burma Jones, Santa Battaglia, Gus Levy, Angelo Mancuso, Claude Robichaux, etc.)

A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Blanche, Harold “Mitch” Mitchell, etc.)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield [Tom’s sister], Amanda Winfield [Tom’s mother], Jim O’Connor)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (John “Jack” Worthing, Algermon Moncrieff, Brackpool, Lady Augusta Bracknell, etc.)

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Caddy, Jason, Benjamin, Caddy, Quintin Compson; Dilsey Gibson; Caroline Bascomb Compson [mother] and Jason Compson [father]; Miss Quentin Compson, etc.)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (Sethe, Denver, Paul D., Baby Suggs, Halle, Beloved, Stamp Paid, Ella, Lady Jones, Schoolteacher, Mr. & Mrs. Garner, Mr. & Miss Bodwin, etc.)  

The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck (short story cycle; thus, it’s best not to use this for a response)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [play version; should you write about this text, refer to it as a novel] (Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Reverend Jim Casy, etc.)

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (All the Trasks [Cyrus, Adam, Charles, Cal, Aron], all the Hamiltons, Cathy Ames, Lee, etc.)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Santiago Nasar, Angela Vicario, Pablo & Pedro Vicario, Bayardo San Roman, Colonel Aponte, etc.)

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Check the genealogy; Jose Arcadio Buendia, Ursual Iguaran, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, Aureliano Jose, Amaranta, Rebeca, Remedios Moscote, etc.)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Tayo, Josiah, Harley, Rocky, Grandma, Auntie, Betonie [medicine man who guides Tayo], Night Swan, etc.)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, Laertes, Fortinbras, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, etc.)