The First Sentence Reader

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...

Marshall, Kate Alice.  I Am Still Alive . New York: Viking 2018 . Print First Sentences: I am alone. I don't have muc...

Mejia, Mindy.  Leave No Trace . New York: Holt 2018 . Print First Sentences: By the time the boy in ward four attacked me...

Ma, Ling.  Severence  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018 . Print. First Sentences: After the End came the Beginning. And in ...

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