30 (or so) Famous Fictional Cats

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‘If you want to write, keep cats.’ ~Aldous Huxley

Saturday is known as #Caturday on the Internet. Writers have always been fascinated by cats and we’re celebrating this Saturday with these Famous Bookish Cats.

30 (or so) Famous Fictional Cats

1. Bagheera from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling – ‘Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody dared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.’
2. The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
3. Church from Pet Sematary by Stephen King
4. Moxie from The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
5. Dinah from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
6. Black Cat from Cat from Hell by Stephen King
7. Eureka from The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
8. Mehitabel from Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
9. Pluto from The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
10. Fat Louie from Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
11. Figaro from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
12. Ginger from The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
13. Graymalkin from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
14. Harry the Cat from The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
15. Kitty from Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
16. Crookshanks  from Harry Potter by JK Rowling
17. Koko and Yum-yum from The Cat Who… series by Lilian Jackson Braun
18. Lipshen from The Witches by Roald Dahl
19. Richard Parker from Life of Pi by Yann Martel
20. The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
21. The cat who played the fiddle from Hey Diddle Diddle – an English nursery rhyme
22. The Pussycat from The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
23. Three little kittens who lost their mittens – a Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme
24. Tom Kitten from The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter
25. Skimbleshanks, Mr. Mistoffelees, Macavity and Old Deuteronomy! from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
26. Behemoth from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
27. Maurice from The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
28. Carbonel from Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh
29. Noboru Wataya from The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
30. Greebo, You, and Ratbag from Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Please add your favourite fictional felines in the comments section below.

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 by Amanda Patterson