American Book Review's "100 Best First Lines from Novels"

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1. 1. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Drag me to re-order

4. 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell Drag me to re-order

9. 9. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Drag me to re-order

11. 11. ? Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Trial by Franz Kafka Drag me to re-order

14. 14. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Murphy (Beckett, Samuel) by Samuel Beckett Drag me to re-order

16. 16. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Drag me to re-order

17. 17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

18. 18. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford Drag me to re-order

19. 19. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Everyman's Library) by Laurence Sterne Drag me to re-order

20. 20. David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Ulysses (Vintage International) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Drag me to re-order

23. 23. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Drag me to re-order

24. 24. City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1) by Paul Auster Drag me to re-order

25. 25. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Beloved by Toni Morrison Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Don Quixote (P.S.) by Miguel de Cervantes Drag me to re-order

28. 28. The Stranger by Albert Camus Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Waiting by Ha Jin Drag me to re-order

30. 30. Neuromancer by William Gibson Drag me to re-order

31. 31. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

32. 32. The Unnamable (Modern Classics) by Samuel Beckett Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (American Literature Series) by Gertrude Stein Drag me to re-order

34. 34. The End of the Road by John Barth Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Galatea 2.2: A Novel by Richard Powers Drag me to re-order

36. 36. ? J.R. by William Gaddis Drag me to re-order

37. 37. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Slaughterhouse-Five by KURT VONNEGUT Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Paradise (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust Drag me to re-order

41. 41. ? Chromos by Felipe Alfau Drag me to re-order

42. 42. The Debut by Anita Brookner Drag me to re-order

43. 43. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Drag me to re-order

44. 44. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Drag me to re-order

45. 45. Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton Drag me to re-order

46. 46. Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book) by Walter Abish Drag me to re-order

47. 47. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis Drag me to re-order

48. 48. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

49. 49. The Crow Road by Iain Banks Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides Drag me to re-order

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