The First Sentence Reader

Hayes, Bill. Insomniac City . New York: Bloomsbury, 2017 . Print First Sentences: I moved to New York eight years ago, a...

 Delderfield, R.F. . To Serve Them All My Days . New York: Simon & Schuster. 1972 . Print First Sentences: The guard at Exeter warned hi...

Du Maurier, Daphne.  The Scapegoat . New York: Doubleday. 1956. Print First Sentences: I left the car by the side of the cathedral...

Kluger, Jeffrey.  Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon . New York: Holt 2017 . Print First Sentences: ...

Mendelsohn, Daniel.  An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic . New York: Knopf 2017 . Print. First Sentences: One January evening...

Gilbert, Elizabeth.  The Last American Man . London: Penguin. 2002. Print. First Sentences: By the time Eustace Conway was seve...

Herron, Mick.  Nobody Walks . New York: Soho Press. 2015. Print. First Sentences: The news had come hundreds of miles to sit wa...

Bascomb, Neal.  The Winter Fortress . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2016. Print. First Sentences: In a staggered line, t...

Roth, Phillip. The Great American Novel . New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 1973. Print First Sentences:   Call me Smitty. ...