Books And Best Opening Lines

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor M Dostoevsky

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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