Famous Books by First Sentence

In a hole in the ground there lived a____.

1937

Call me Ishmael.

1851

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

2008

Once upon a bye, there was a mischievous boy

1876

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive,

1997

When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm

1960

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were

1949

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now estates

1867

Marley was dead, to begin with.

1843

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy.

725-675 BCE

You'd better not ever tell nobody but God

1982

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

1925

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.

1965

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.

1954

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

1932

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.

1861

The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.

1957

It was almost December, and Jonas was about to be frightened.

1993

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

1985

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.

1990