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...

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...

Kane, Joe.  Running the Amazon . New York: Knopf. 1989. Print. First Sentences: Southern Peru, late August 1985. Beneath a r...

Rock, Peter.  My Abandonment . New York: John Murray 2018 . Print First Sentences: Sometimes you're walking through the...