#LiteraryMarchMadness 2018: Which Character Will Be the Champion?

By NYPL Staff
March 15, 2018

Welcome to our Fifth Annual Literary March Madness (#LiteraryMarchMadness)! This is a bracket-style tournament like the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, but with a bookish twist: our competition pits popular literary characters against each other and the winner is decided by you! We went to the drawing board, and these sixteen characters will make their plays through four rounds. Who will cut down the literary net? Your votes will decide, and the character will be crowned the 2018 Literary March Madness champion.

Literary March Madness bracket

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How to vote:

Check in daily at 11 AM on our Twitter (@NYPL), Facebook, Instagram story, and here to vote in our social media polls. You'll have 24 hours to make your pick, and you can see live results below.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 2 Bracket

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Round 3: Semifinals

Round 3 Bracket

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Round 4: Finals

Finals bracket

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And the winner is... 

Final result

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Literary March Madness Reading List

Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Character: Robert Langdon
 

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Character: Sherlock Holmes
 

One for the Money

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Character: Stephanie Plum
 

The Murder at the Vicarage

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Character: Miss Marple
 

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Character: Daenerys Targaryen
 

Silence Fallen

Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs
Character: Mercy Thompson
 

The Hobbit

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Character: Bilbo Baggins
 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Character: Marvin the Paranoid Android
 

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Character: Elizabeth Bennet
 

Beloved

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Character: Beloved
 

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Character: Holden Caulfield
 

Hamlet

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Character: Hamlet
 

Black Panther

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet - Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
Character: Black Panther
 

Superman

Superman: Volume 1,  Before Truth by Gene Luen Yang, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, and Dean White
Character: Superman
 

X-Men

X-Men: Second Genesis, Volume 5 by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, and John Byrne
Character: Storm
 

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: Volume 1, The Lies by Greg Rucka, Liam Sharp, and Laura Martin
Character: Wonder Woman