The First Sentence Reader

  Welsh-Huggins, Andrew (ed). Columbus Noir . Brooklyn : Akashic 2020. Print. First Sentences: You can kill a lot more than time in Columbus...

Puertolas, Romain. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe . New York : Knopf 2014. Print. First Sentence...

Walker, Karen Thompson. The Strange Case of Jane O . New York : Random House 2025. Print. First Sentences: Jane O. came to my office for the...

Silverberg, Robert ed.. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964s . New York : Tom Doherty Associates 1970. Print.   First Se...

Chong, Jinwoo. I Leave It Up to You . New York : Ballentine 2025. Print. First Sentences: Waking up is an easy thing to do. To be asleep, th...

Kenney, John . I See You've Called in Dead. New York : Zibby 2025 . Print. First Sentences: The good news, of course, is that someone di...

Walter, Jess So Far Gone. New York : HarperCollins 2025. Print.   First Sentences: A prim girl stood still as a fencepost of Rhys Kinnick...

Nadel, Barbara. Land of the Blind . London : Headline 2015. Print. First Sentences: He could only stand. A slight bend of the knees was all ...

Uketsu. Strange Pictures. New York : HarperCollins 2022. Print.   First Sentences: All right, everyone, now I'm going to show you a pic...

Hawley, Samuel. Daikon. New York : Avid Reader 2025. Print. First Sentences: Major Edward T. Houseman left his barracks tent at 8th Avenue a...

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...