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

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1. 51. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Drag me to re-order

2. 52. Tracks by Louise Erdrich Drag me to re-order

3. 53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Drag me to re-order

4. 54. End of the Affair, The by Graham Greene Drag me to re-order

5. 55. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien Drag me to re-order

6. 56. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Drag me to re-order

7. 57. Wittgenstein's Mistress (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by David Markson Drag me to re-order

8. 58. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot Drag me to re-order

9. 59. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Drag me to re-order

10. 60. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino Drag me to re-order

11. 61. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Drag me to re-order

12. 62. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Drag me to re-order

13. 63. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton Drag me to re-order

14. 64. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Drag me to re-order

15. 65. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Drag me to re-order

16. 66. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie Drag me to re-order

17. 67. Bell Jar (P.S.) by Sylvia Plath Drag me to re-order

18. 68. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace Drag me to re-order

19. 69. Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow Drag me to re-order

20. 70. The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor Drag me to re-order

21. 71. The Tin Drum (Vintage International) by Gunter Grass Drag me to re-order

22. 72. ? The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin Drag me to re-order

23. 73. The Origin of the Brunists: A Novel by Robert Coover Drag me to re-order

24. 74. The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James Drag me to re-order

25. 75. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

26. 76. The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics) by Rose Macaulay Drag me to re-order

27. 77. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Drag me to re-order

28. 78. The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) by L. P. Hartley Drag me to re-order

29. 79. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Drag me to re-order

30. 80. A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis Drag me to re-order

31. 81. Crash: A Novel by J. G. Ballard Drag me to re-order

32. 82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Drag me to re-order

33. 83. Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn Drag me to re-order

34. 84. The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth Drag me to re-order

35. 85. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley Drag me to re-order

36. 86. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner Drag me to re-order

37. 87. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves Drag me to re-order

38. 88. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson Drag me to re-order

39. 89. Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition) by Saul Bellow Drag me to re-order

40. 90. Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sinclair Lewis Drag me to re-order

41. 91. Second Skin by John Hawkes Drag me to re-order

42. 92. Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini Drag me to re-order

43. 93. ? Blown Away by Ronald Sukenick Drag me to re-order

44. 94. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Drag me to re-order

45. 95. Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman Drag me to re-order

46. 96. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Drag me to re-order

47. 97. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf Drag me to re-order

48. 98. Changing Places by David Lodge Drag me to re-order

49. 99. Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys Drag me to re-order

50. 100. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane Drag me to re-order

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