Over here, we like all types of men. Sci-fi guys. Chubby men. Even men who aren't real. Like these fictional heartthrobs from our favorite works of literature. We totally recall laying in our beds, curled up with our books, blushing at anything that even resembled sex. Years (or months, in some cases) later, we're still hot for them. Whether they're tragically flawed antiheroes or dashing leading men, these dudes all share one trait: They're timeless pieces of sexy, sexy ass.
15. Dr. Carlisle Cullen, "Twilight." Forget Edward, the everywoman's heartthrob. We want the dad with the ageless features and the medical degree.
14. Jay Gatsby, "The Great Gatsby." We'd seduce him just to see what his opulent, 1920s, dripping-in-money bedroom looked like. Hell, we'd even let him call us Daisy.
13. Mr. Darcy, "Pride & Prejudice." He's got the silent-but-sexy thing goin' on. Plus, when he's rude and standoffish to Elizabeth Bennett, it makes us want to rip that double-breasted coat off his tight little bod.
12. Ned Nickerson, "Nancy Drew." Oh, Ned. You are so clueless yet such a catch. Age about 10 years, then let's get crazy in the back of Nancy's Roadster. She never has to know ...
11. Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird." It's Atticus's stick-to-his-guns personality that makes us want him to glower at us from across a courtroom. Plus, post-bang, he'd actually be able to hold an interesting conversation.
10. Heathcliff, "Wuthering Heights." So brooding. So dark. So smoldering sexy. Even if he went all bipolar on us, let's be honest: Crazies are the best in bed.
9. "James Bond." OK, OK. So we'd be just another chick in Bond's harem, but that's fine, The accent. The Aston Martin. The a-hole tendencies. He can double-ohhhh-seven us any day, anytime.
8. Holden Caulfield, "The Catcher in the Rye." So technically having sex with a 16-year-old would be rape, but as soon as the talkative, manic depressive hits legal age, we're so hitting that.
7. Phantom, "Phantom of the Opera." Yes, we'd choose the totally creepy disfigured ghost over boring Raoul any day. Sure, he might frighten us, but at least we'd get to see his dungeon and torture chamber. Which might be fun.
6. Aragorn, "Lord of the Rings." He's a rugged warrior, yet incredibly modest. And with those rugged I'm-even-sexy-when-I-sweat good looks, we'd throw Arwen over a cliff for a piece of that.
5. Gilbert Blythe, "Anne of Green Gables." After an exhausting day of tending to the ailments of the country folk, we'd tend to the all the needs of the dedicated doc. If you know what we mean.
4. Noah Calhoun, "The Notebook." We totally admit we're half-basing this off the movie adaptation starring smokin' hot, shirtless Ryan Gosling. (But, really, can you blame us?) Six words. Make-up sex in the rain.
3. Logan, "Babysitter's Club" series. If we were Mary Ann, heck, if we were any of the babysitters, we totally would've invited Logan over to "help" us babysit after the kids went to sleep.
2. "Macbeth." Romeo = too dramatic. Hamlet = too weak. But Macbeth is all forceful-like. As soon as he had his mind made up he's getting in our pants, he's getting in our freakin' pants. And hello, we'd totally calm those nightmares of his.
1. Rhett Butler, "Gone with the Wind". Frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn ... how many glasses of brandy it takes to get you in bed. You will ravish us the way only a Southern gentleman knows how.











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Thursday 17 December
By Meghan
i concur...men in kilts = hot!
Sunday 25 April
By brndi
My thoughts exactly!
Monday 28 November
By Ten
Oooooo yes, Jamie Fraser from the Outlander series. He was the first man to come to mind for me.
Followed by Ranger from Stephanie Plumb. Mmmmmmm Rangerrrrrrr
Saturday 14 November
By klg19
Lord Peter Wimsey, FTW.
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Saturday 14 November
By jamie albright
Whoooaaa, hold on here - this list includes Heathcliff but excludes Edward Rochester? That is so many unholy shades of wrong I can't even begin to color it in with a crayon. And, if we're gonna go with vamps, how about the O.G.? Dracula was hawt. He deserves the mention way more than any of those metrosexual wannabes from TWILIGHT. Bleh.
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Saturday 14 November
By Norma
Totally agree...Would sleep with Rochester in a hot second.
Thursday 03 December
By Jezzy89
Wide Sargasso Sea kind of undid any positive feelings I had for Mr. Rochester. I think it might have something to do with the fact that he kept his ex in the attic.
Saturday 14 November
By jamie albright
I canNOT believe I forgot JAMIE FRASER. And I would include his nephew Ian and son-in-law Roger in this mention. Even Ian the elder. They're all smokin' hot. Tulach Ard!
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Sunday 15 November
By litmiss
not holden caulfield! zooey glass from franny and zooey! and mr. rochester of course.
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Saturday 14 November
By Eleonora
Oh please, if we're seriously basing this on the books (and not the lame-o musical which he was cut from), then you clearly have to pick the PERSIAN in Phantom of the Opera. He's wicked cool, knows everybody's secrets (including Erik's) and helps saves the day for no reason other than because he can.
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Saturday 14 November
By Kathy A.
King Kong. Okay, I really don't want to do a monkey, regardless of size. But you have to admit, he has all the qualities that make a hot hero hot. Devotion, love, protectiveness, absolute focus on the heroin, willing to die for her.. . Yeah, if he weren't hairy... and a monkey... he'd be damn near perfect.
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Saturday 14 November
By samma
yes yes yes gilbert blythe!! first literary crush for this girl.
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Saturday 14 November
By belovedoftheheir
I wouldn't touch most of them with a 20 foot pole (Heathcliff, ew) but I had to comment that Carlisle Cullen is in fact the hottest thing in Twilight.
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Saturday 14 November
By cal
Andrea, are you twelve years of age? If so congratulation on having a popular blog, I can see good things in your future. But Andrea I suspect you are in fact well over the age of twelve and I would recommend that you read a work of fiction not intended for children. Who knows a love a adult (not 'adult') literature may bag you real person you could totally sleep with.
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Sunday 15 November
By AMac
I can totally get behind Rhett Butler, and I want to second, third, and fourth Jamie Fraser, Roger MacKenzie and Ian Murray.
Do romance novel heroes count as literary characters? If so, I throw all my votes to Davy Dempsey, of Jennifer Crusie's "Faking It." Hottest. Man. Ever.
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Sunday 15 November
By Juliet
Where's Peekay in this list? - the perfect Renaissance Man!
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Sunday 15 November
By Julia
Aragorn! YES. I have nothing more to say because his hotness has melted my brain.
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Sunday 15 November
By nevie
sirius black wtf where is he?!?
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Sunday 15 November
By Kate
Laurie from Little Women - what was with Jo and all this "I'm sorry, Teddy, we aren't temperamentally compatible"? That guy she married did nothing for me.
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Sunday 15 November
By Gigi
How did Daniel from Bridget Jones Diary not make it on this list?!- I demand a do-over!
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