No wonder this meme is getting bogged down. Only three or four entries to go! But I don’t know what my ideal is.
For example, I haven’t read Oblomov. And I am quite glad I am not the main characters in most of the books I read. I’ve been thinking about this for a week and can’t think of one. Besides, subordinate characters are usually more interesting. Perhaps I could take the Nibelungenlied and pretend Brünnhilde was the main character.