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...

Paul, Jim. Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon . New York : Villard 1991. Print. First Sentences: It had occurred to me that holding ...

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...