First Sentence
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Book
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Year Published
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In a hole in the ground there lived a____.
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The Hobbit
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1937
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Call me Ishmael.
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Moby Dick
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1851
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When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
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The Hunger Games
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2008
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Once upon a bye, there was a mischievous boy named ____ _____, who was always getting into trouble, getting off on danger.
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Tom Sawyer
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1876
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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Harry Potter: The Philosophers Stone
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1997
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When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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1960
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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1984
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1949
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Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now estates of the Buonapartes.
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War and Peace
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1867
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Marley was dead, to begin with.
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A Christmas Carol
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1843
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Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy.
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The Odyssey
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725-675 BCE
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First Sentence
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Book
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Year Published
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You'd better not ever tell nobody but God
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The Color Purple
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1982
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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The Great Gatsby
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1925
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In the week before the departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.
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Dune
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1965
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.
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Lord of the Flies
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1954
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
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Of Mice and Men
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1932
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My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
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Great Expectations
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1861
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The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.
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The Cat in the Hat
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1957
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It was almost December, and Jonas was about to be frightened.
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The Giver
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1993
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I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
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Ender's Game
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1985
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In the late twentieth century, the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering has positioned itself to become one of the great technological revolutions of human history.
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Jurassic Park
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1990
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