Then there are a few books on my shelf you should give a try!  These books are full of characters who really come alive and are as unique and intersting as any person you might meet in real life.  I've put an asterisk by the books that hold the most interesting of characters I've come across in a while:

***Saving Fish From Drowning - there are multiple characters who steal the show, as well as a great mystery of a storyline and a dead person for a narrator!

**Middlesex - the characters in this novel span four generations and range from Greek peasants to Detroit mobsters!

**My Friend Leonard - the follow-up to A Million Little Pieces, this story is told in such a real-life narrative, you will feel you are personal friends with Leonard.  And he is perhaps the most interesting character of all!

*Loving Frank - historical fiction with the main characters being architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his longtime love (not his wife), Mamah. 

The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell - Belle is a sassy woman in the early 20th Century who manages to find trouble everywhere she goes!

Alternatives to Sex - this book is not about sex, but is about a realtor and his passion for property.  Sound dull?  It's not.  Promise!

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - a nurse who follows her heart, a doctor who struggles to live with a wrong decision, a little girl with Downs Syndrome caught in the mix.  This is an excellent read.