100 best first lines from novels
I have a long list of books I would like to read when I’m finally done with school, and a handful made this list.
1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)