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Opening Lines	Book Title	% Correct
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	72%
Call me Ishmael.	Moby Dick	72%
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice	67%
Two households: both alike in dignity in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.	Romeo and Juliet	67%
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.	A Tale of Two Cities	63%
All children, except one, grow up.	Peter Pan	59%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	Nineteen Eighty-Four	58%
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.	The Old Man and the Sea	58%
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing	Don Quixote	56%
It was a pleasure to burn.	Fahrenheit 451	56%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.	To Kill a Mockingbird	55%
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that i’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.	The Great Gatsby	50%
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.	Catch-22	48%
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.	The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy	48%
As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.	Metamorphosis	45%
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.	The Fellowship of the Ring	45%
“Tom!” No answer.	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	44%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina	42%
Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.	The Stranger	38%
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.	One Hundred Years of Solitude	36%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.	The Bell Jar	34%
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful	Matilda	20%
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.	The Cat in the Hat	20%
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	9%
It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944, that is, after the German Government had decided, owing to the growing scarcity of labour, to lengthen the average lifespan of the prisoners destined for elimination	If this is a man	3%