Statistics for Opening Lines of Books #1

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Opening line	Book	% Correct
Call me Ishmael.	Moby Dick	90%
All children, except one, grow up.	Peter Pan	85%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	1984	81%
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	72%
Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago...	Don Quixote	60%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina	51%
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	41%
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.	The Stranger	32%
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	25%
All this happened, more or less.	Slaughterhouse Five	18%
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.	Jane Eyre	17%
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.	Ulysses	14%
I'm pretty much f*cked.	The Martian	9%
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man...	Notes from Underground	6%
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	5%