The First Sentence Reader

Ihimaera, Witi . Whale Rider . New York: Harcourt. 1987 . Print. First Sentences: In the old days, in the years that have...

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

Lamb, Wally .  She's Come Undone . New York: Washington Square Press 1992 . Print. First Sentences: In one of my earliest memories, my m...

MacDonald, Betty . The Plague and I . New York: Lippincott 1948 . Print. First Sentences: Getting Tuberculosis in the middle of your life is...

Gu, Byeong-Mo .  The Old Woman with the Knife . Toronto: Hanover Square Press. 2013 . Print. First Sentences: So this is what it's like ...

North, Anna. Outlawed . New York: Bloombury. 2021 . Print. First Sentences:   In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot o...

Garmus, Bonnie.  Lessons in Chemistry . New York: Doubleday 2022 . Print. First Sentences: Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses ...

Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping . New York: Picador 1980 . Print First Sentences:   My name is Ruth. I grew up with my...

Moyes, Jojo.  The Giver of Stars . New York: Viking 2019 . Print. First Sentences: Listen. Three miles deep in the for...

Michaelides, Alex.  The Silent Patient . New York: Celadon 2019 . Print First Sentences: Alicia Berenson was thirty-three y...

Carey, Edward.  Little . New York: Riverhead 2018 . Print First Sentences: In the same year that the five-year-old Wolfgang...