Statistics for Books by Opening Line

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First Words	Book	% Correct
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies...	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	88%
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 Philosophers Stone	87%
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday...	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	87%
In the beginning...	The Bible	86%
Call me Ishmael...	Moby Dick	79%
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...	A Tale of Two Cities	68%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...	1984	62%
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream...	The Old Man and the Sea	59%
I am an invisible man...	The Invisible Man	50%
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air...	Macbeth	32%
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism...	The Communist Manifesto	29%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way...	Anna Karenina	28%
All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities...	The Prince	23%
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green...	Of Mice and Men	21%
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure...	The Stranger	20%