The First Sentence Reader

  Black Jack. You Can't Win . New York : MacMillan 1926. Print. First Sentences: I am now librarian of the  San Francisco Call . Do I lo...

Roberts, Monty .   The M a n Who Listens to Horses: The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer .  New York: Random House 1996. Print. First Se...

Homer, (trans. by Emily Wilson).   The Odyssey . New York : W.W. Norton 2018. Print. First Sentences: Tell me of a complicated man, Muse, te...

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: or The Whale . Oak Park, IL : Top Five Books 2026. (originally published 1851). Print. First Sentences: Call m...

McConaghy, Charlotte. Wild Dark Shore . New York : Flatiron 2025. Print.   First Sentences: I have hated my mother for most of my life but i...

Asimov, Isaac.  Asimov's Guide to Science . New York : Basic Books 1960. Print. First Sentences: Almost in the beginning was curiosity.....

Houston, Pam. Cowboys Are My Weakness. Berkeley, CA : Washington Square Press 1992. Print. First Sentences: When he says "Skins of blan...

Siegfried Sassoon . Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston . New York: Coward, McCann. 1930 . Print. First Sentences...