The First Sentence Reader

  Welsh-Huggins, Andrewt. The Mailman . New York : Mysterious Press, 2025. Print.   First Sentences: Rachel Stanfield paused, not sure she h...

Schlesser, Thomas. Mona's Eyes . New York : Europa. 2024. Print.   First Sentences: Everything went dark. As funeral garb. Then, here an...

Dahl, Roald . Over to You . London : Reynal & Hitchcock. 1946. Print. First Sentences: Oh, God, how I am frightened. Now that I am alone...

Carr, J.L. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup . New York : Penguin 1975. Print. First Sentences: After the big Share-Out there wa...

  Carr, J. L.. A Month in the Country . New York : New York Review Books. 1980. Print. First Sentences: When the train stopped I stumbled ou...

Habeck, Emily. Shark Heart: A Love Story . New York : MarySue Rucci  2023. Print. First Sentences: Lewis: In the early days after I left New...

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

  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...