The First Sentence Reader

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

Shapiro, B.A. The Lost Masterpiece . Chapel Hill, NJ : Algonquin Books 2025. Print. First Sentences: I hate spam. Well, obviously everyone h...

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

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

Davies, Carys .  West . New York: Scribner 2018 . Print. First Sentences: From what she could see he had two guns, a hatchet, a knife, his r...

Davies, Carys .  Clear . New York: Scribner 2024 . Print. First Sentences: He wished he could swim -- the swimming belt felt like a flimsy t...

Brooks, Geraldine.  Horse . New York: Viking 2022 . Print. First Sentences: "The deceptively reductive forms of the artist's work b...

Lamb, Wally.  The Hour I First Believed . New York: HarperColliuns 2008 . Print. First Sentences: They were both working their final shift a...

North, Anna. Outlawed . New York: Bloombury. 2021 . Print. First Sentences:   In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot o...