The First Sentence Reader

  Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet . New York : Simon & Schuster 1987. Print.   First Sentences: Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small ...

  Mankell, Henning. After the Fire . New York : Vintage 2017. Print. First Sentences: My house burned down on an autumn night almost a year ...

Elmhirst, Sophie .   A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck.  New York : Riverhead 2025. Print. First Sentences: ...

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

Davidson, Robyn .  Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback . New York: Vintage. 1980 . Print. First Sentenc...

Read, Shelley. Go As a River . New York: Spiegel & Grau 2023 . Print. First Sentences: He wasn't much to look at....

  Howarth, David. We Die Alone . Guilford, CT: Lyons Press 1955 . Print. First Sentences: Even at the end of March, on th...

Weir, Andy.  Project Hail Mary . New York: Ballantine 2021 . Print First Sentences: " What's twp plus two? Some...

Tsui, Bonnie .  Why We Swim . Chapel Hill, NJ: Algonquin. 2020 . Print First Sentences: One night over dinner, my husband tells me a story h...