Opening Lines of Books #1

Guess the book, based on its opening line.

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Opening line	Book
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	1984
Call me Ishmael.	Moby Dick
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show	David Copperfield
I'm pretty much f*cked.	The Martian
All children, except one, grow up.	Peter Pan
All this happened, more or less.	Slaughterhouse Five
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like...	The Catcher in the Rye
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man...	Notes from Underground
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.	The Stranger
Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago...	Don Quixote
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.	Ulysses
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.	Jane Eyre
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains	A Farewell to Arms
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone