The First Sentence Reader

Finkel, Michael.   The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession . New York: Knopf 2023 . Print. First Sentences: Ap...

Wilson, Antoine . Mouth to Mouth . New York: Avid Reader 2022 . Print. First Sentences: I sat at the gate at JFK, having re...

Rothschild, Hannah. The Improbability of Love . New York: Knopf 2015 . Print. First Sentences: Though she often passed Bernoff and Son, Anni...

Tolkien, J.R.R. Letters From Father Christmas . New York: Houghton Mifflin 1976 . Print. First Sentences: Christmas House...

Larsen, Reif. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet  New York: Penguin 2009 . Print First Sentences: The phone ...

Block, Lawrence, ed..  In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper . New York: Pegasus 2016 . Printp ...

Rose, Heather.  The Museum of Modern Love . Chapel Hill: Algonquin 2018 . Print First Sentences: He was not my first musici...

Smith, Patti.  Just Kids . New York: HarperCollins 2010 . Print First Sentences: I was asleep when he died. I had calle...

Ng, Celeste.  Little Fires Everywhere . New York: Penguin 2017 . Print. First Sentences: Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking ab...