The First Sentence Reader

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...

Doig, Ivan. Dancing at the Rascal Fair . New York: Scribner 1987 . Print. First Sentences: To say the truth, it was not h...

Moyes, Jojo.  The Giver of Stars . New York: Viking 2019 . Print. First Sentences: Listen. Three miles deep in the for...

Smith, Dominic.  The Electric Hotel . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019 . Print First Sentences: Each morning, for ...

Carey, Edward.  Little . New York: Riverhead 2018 . Print First Sentences: In the same year that the five-year-old Wolfgang...

Hoffman, Alice.  The Museum of Extraordinary Things . New York: Schribner. 2014. Print. First Sentences: You would think it...