Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Top Ten Tuesday was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
A first sentence in a book can make a HUGE impact on one's desire to read it!
Below are ten first sentences from books I've yet to read. Each sentence listed below makes me want to read the book it came from.
1. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
2. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
3. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.—Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
4. I am an invisible man.—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
6. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz)
7. It was a pleasure to burn.—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
8. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.—William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
9. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
10. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.—Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
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