The First Sentence Reader

McConaghy, Charlotte. Wild Dark Shore . New York : Flatiron 2025. Print.   First Sentences: I have hated my mother for most of my life but i...

  Welsh-Huggins, Andrew (ed). Columbus Noir . Brooklyn : Akashic 2020. Print. First Sentences: You can kill a lot more than time in Columbus...

Walker, Karen Thompson. The Strange Case of Jane O . New York : Random House 2025. Print. First Sentences: Jane O. came to my office for the...

Nadel, Barbara. Land of the Blind . London : Headline 2015. Print. First Sentences: He could only stand. A slight bend of the knees was all ...

Uketsu. Strange Pictures. New York : HarperCollins 2022. Print.   First Sentences: All right, everyone, now I'm going to show you a pic...

Westlake, Donald.  Memory . New York: Dorchester 2010 . Print. First Sentences:   After the show, they went back to the hotel room, and to b...

Chambers, Clare.  Shy Creatures . New York: Mariner. 2024 . Print. First Sentences:   In all failed relationships, there is a point that pas...

Blake, Matthew .  Anna O . New York: Harper 2024 . Print. First Sentences: "The average human spends thirty-three years of their life a...

Hallett, Janice. The Appeal . New York: Simon & Schuster 2021 . Print. First Sentences: As discussed, it is best you ...