How well do you know the first lines of famous books?

From which book is this sentence: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

.Beloved

The Code of the Woosters

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Dracula

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How does this book begins: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

"The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!"

"Her husband’s almost home. He’ll catch her this time."

"Pinch myself and say I am AWAKE once an hour"

"I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving."

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How does this book begins: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"It took seven years to get the letter right."

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Sometimes it seems like all I ever do it lie."

"The circus arrives without warning...It is simply there, when yesterday is was not."

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How does this book begins: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

"It took seven years to get the letter right."

"There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire."

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die...even if I had, I would not have imagined this."

"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'"

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From which book is this sentence: "It was love at first sight."

Beloved

Mrs. Dalloway

Catch 22

Things Fall Apart

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How does this book begins: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

"Here is the house."

"The morning burned so August-hot, the marsh’s moist breath hung the oaks and pines with fog."

Nineteen years before she decided to die, Nora Seed sat in the warmth of the small library at Hazeldene School in the town of Bedford. ""

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet."

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From which book is this sentence: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Barchester Towers

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Pride and Prejudice

The Mill on the Floss

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How does this book begins: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

"Okoloma was one of my greatest childhood friends."

"My strongest memory is not a memory."

"The fact that I spelled subpoena, suhpeena, may suggest I am not qualified to tell this story."

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How does this book begins: The Stranger by Albert Camus

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Mother died today."

"When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit."

"I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support."

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How does this book begins: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"It was a pleasure to burn."

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."

"There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire."

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How does this book begins: Waiting by Ha Jin

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

"Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu."

"124 was spiteful."

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."

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From which book is this sentence: "Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof."

The Age of Innocence

Things Fall Apart

Treasure Island

Catch-22

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From which book is this sentence: "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

Moby-Dick

The Color Purple

The Go-Between

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From which book is this sentence: "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

One Hundred Years of Solitude

To Kill a Mockingbird

Invisible Man

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From which book is this sentence: "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

Midnight's Children

The Iliad

Middlemarch

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From which book is this sentence: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

Buddenbrooks

The Catcher in the Rye

The Grapes of Wrath

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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From which book is this sentence: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Lord of the Rings

Great Expectations

Ulysses

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How does this book begins: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

"It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears' house. Its eyes were closed."

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

"I have no idea how to write this stupid book."

"The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored."

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From which book is this sentence: "Call me Ishmael."

The Catcher in the Rye

Moby-Dick

Vanity Fair

Brideshead Revisited

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How does this book begins: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"That night, when Mrs. Chamberlain called, Elmira could only piece together the words “take Briar somewhere” and “pay you double”. "

I am an invisible man.

"Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest."