10 Books With The Best Opening Lines

24 September, 2024

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"History has failed us, but no matter."

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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

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The Bell Jar  by Sylvia Plath

"I've known Death a long time but now Death knows me."

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The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

"A girl is running for her life."

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The Invisible Life of Adie Larue by V.E. Schwab 

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975." 

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

"I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first - among all the things that have vanished from the island."

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The Memory Police  by Yoko Ogawa

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one moming from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."

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The Secret History  by Donna Tartt

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."

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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion