The First Sentence Reader

  Black Jack. You Can't Win . New York : MacMillan 1926. Print. First Sentences: I am now librarian of the  San Francisco Call . Do I lo...

Cather, Willa . O Pioneers . New York : Everyman's Library. 1913. Print. First Sentences: One January day, thirty years ago, the little...

Pitts, Mike . Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island . New York : Mariner Books 2026. Print. First Sentence...

  Wellum, Geoffrey. First Light . New York : Viking 2002. Print. First Sentences: There are some days in the early spring when the weather i...

Stone, Robert and Andres, Alan. Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age . New Y...

Isaacson, Walter .   The Greatest Sentence Ever Written . New York : Simon & Schuster 2025. Print. First Sentences: "We hold these ...

Evans, Richard. Open Tennis: The First Twenty Years, the Players, the Politics, the Pressures, the Passions, and the Great Matches . New Yor...

Kranish, Michael. The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero New Yo...