The only list that really matters XD

[petronia]

Books With Redheads Innem (To Be Added To As Memory Permits)

Lloyd Alexander, The Illyrian Adventure [Vesper Holly]
Lloyd Alexander, Prydain Chronicles [Eilonwy]
Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor / Barrayar [Cordelia, as pointed out by canis_m]
David Eddings, The Belgariad / The Malloreon [Ce'Nedra]
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda [Rudolf Rassendyll and Flavia]
Anne McCaffrey, The Harper Hall Trilogy [Menolly]
Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds [Maggie]
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [Anne of course]
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat [Armand]
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter Series [only half the Weasleys meet my taste, though - Bill, Ginny and the twins]
Mary Stewart, The Merlin Trilogy [Morgause, eheheh. I was obsessed with Merlin and Nimue, though, as was warped child.]
Tanaka Yoshiki, Legend of Galactic Heroes [Kircheis]

If my sister were drawing up this list she'd probably stick Diana Gabaldon on as well, but I haven't read those. Thank goodness. XD (Although when she described the plot to me I ended up imagining Jamie as Touya-out-of-Ayashi-no-Ceres for some reason, only in a kilt.)

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[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Books With Redheads Innem (To Be Added To As Memory Permits)

...also, damn near *anything* Heinlein, with the number of redhead characters growing as you go along through his stuff!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'll take that as a rec, then. XD (Before you ask, no, have not read Heinlein. Am reprehensibly short on SF in general.)

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Heinlein is obsessed with redheads XD I think you would be amused by it.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Start off with his early work, particularly his YA books. I recommend "Space Cadet", "The Rolling Stones", and "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" (though only "The Rolling Stones" has redheads, a mother and her twin sons.)

After "Stranger In a Strange Land" and "Starship Troopers" his books definitely become a case of YMMV.

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Would you laugh at me if I told you that I want to write WLE in part because ohmigawd, redheads? <33333333333

[meril.livejournal.com]

Every one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books is full o' redheads.

The only other redheaded character I can think of in stuff I know you haven't read is in one of the Honor Harrington books, but um, probably not so worth your time to read. Although the guy in question is quite amusing. ;)

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd recommend not even the YA stuff, but the *early* eary things, the short stories he wrote in '39-42 and then again right after the war, good, solid classic SF, and largely outside the eventual Future History timeline.

And the last couple of things he did, _Job_, and _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_, are refreshing, if nothing else then because he'd already tried everything else...and sort of went back to the beginning. Well, except for the second half of _To Sail_, which grows ridiculously solipsistic.

Yeah, I was a *major* Heinlein fanboy through HS and early college...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Honor Harrington is perfectly readable. Assuming the only other choice you have Feintuch's "Hope" series... :P

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Heinlein got his jollies out of redheads. It always used to disturb me a little (as a redhead) when I was kid and reading his novels. Especially that one. Um. Damn. Time Enough for Love?

I think basically every character in that is a redhead. But it's been years and most of his stuff blends together.

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Though if you're going to read Darkover for redheads, start with Hawkmistress!

[/plebey personal favorite plug]

[takenaga.livejournal.com]

I remember reading the Prydain Chronicles. That brings back fond memories ^_^

[meril.livejournal.com]

Assuming the only other choice you have Feintuch's "Hope" series...

Don't remind me. Please. Uggggggh. Although the Japanese fanart is pretty spiffy, but reading the source is too painful to go through just for some decent BL.

/runs HH fansite, j0...

[meril.livejournal.com]

Agreed. That's a good one to start with.

Myself, I started with The Heirs of Hammerfell, and I really, really can't recommend that.

Admittedly, I haven't reread any Darkover for at least 7 years. So, um, am rusty with that ;)

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

And definitely avoid Stormwitch. Uh. Unless you like bratty childish type characters who incidentally happen to be redheads.

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Also, belatedly. IIRC, The Fall of Atlantis compilation by Marion Zimmer Bradley (I'm not sure you can get them as two separate novels anymore) includes a redheaded main character, Domaris.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

(Although when she described the plot to me I ended up imagining Jamie as Touya-out-of-Ayashi-no-Ceres for some reason, only in a kilt.)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Jamie is teh hott. But I think of him as more muscly.

Love Menolly and Armand!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

...Isn't Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith a redhead? Or have I been brainwashed by the bad cover art?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You're likely right. I should put her on. (I picture Cordelia with sort of reddish-brown hair but, well, that counts anyway XD, and I don't remember what it says in the text exactly. I always have trouble remembering what aspects of my mental image of characters are canon and which are the artistic license of my brain.)

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Extremely late comment: How about Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, with Door? There was another one I really liked, but I can't remember it now. Personally I always felt great sympathy for the brown-haired ones.

I'd like to add this list to toptenlove one of these days...