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The Best Opening Lines in Literature - Page 2

Collected by Buzzfeed (and supplemented by additional online lists), these are books with some of the greatest, most enticing, surprising, poetic, starkly insidious, darkly comic, or deliciously clever opening lines of all time.
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The Dick Gibson Show
The Dick Gibson Show
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Dietland (Sarai Walker)
Dietland (Sarai Walker)
43
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
44
Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing
45
Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers
46
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
47
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
48
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair
49
The End of the Road
The End of the Road
50
The English Patient
The English Patient
51
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
52
Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)
Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)
53
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
54
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
55
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
56
Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake
57
A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own
58
Galatea 2.2
Galatea 2.2
59
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
60
Girl at War (Sara Novic)
Girl at War (Sara Novic)
61
A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing
62
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
63
The Go-Between
The Go-Between
64
Goldfinger (Ian Fleming)
Goldfinger (Ian Fleming)
65
Good Omens (Terry Pratchett)
Good Omens (Terry Pratchett)
66
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
67
The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier
68
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
69
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
70
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
71
The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
72
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
73
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
74
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
75
Herzog
Herzog
76
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
77
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
78
Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle
79
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
80
I, Claudius
I, Claudius
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