1) ELPHABA Gregory Maguire's Wicked. Green-skinned and rebellious, Elphaba begins fighting for the rights of the sentient animals in her world. She doesn't start out wicked, only idealistic. A fantastic heroine.
2) JADIS The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. A terrifying and seductive snow queen, she's one of the best villains EVER.
3) MAGNUS BANE The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The High Warlock of Brooklyn is unpredictable, shady, brave, and a trickster.
4) SERAFINA PEKKALA The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. The beautiful and valorous witch who rides a broom and leads an army of witches. Immortal and compelling.
5) HERMIONE GRANGER The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. She grows from an annoyingly precocious child into a brainy and courageous young woman with the fiercest wand around.
6) JENNY WAYNEST Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. She's officially a wizard, but the wizards are an eccentric tribe, like scientists and creatives, only maligned. Middle-aged and daring, with a be-spectacled husband who killed a dragon, she's a force to be reckoned with.
7) MELANCTHE The Green Pearl by Jack Vance. Solitary, mysterious, and beautiful, she's a powerful enchantress in a magical world of kings and fairy creatures.
8) THE DUST WITCH Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. She's horrifying and elemental,a feature of a sinister carnival.
9) LANGWIDERE The Oz books by L. Frank Baum. The princess who collects other girl's heads to wear as her own. Disturbing to say the least.
10) CIRCE The Odyssey by Homer. Another solitary sorceress on an island. She turns men into animals if they anger her and lures a hero into her home.
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