Only Avid Readers Can Guess the Book from Its Memorable Opening Line 📚 — How Well Will You Do?

Time to get your thinking cap on! Which novel opens with the line, 'Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm...'?

• Sense and Sensibility

• Pride and Prejudice

• Gone With the Wind

• Jane Eyre

Which novel begins with the line, 'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium...'?

• Brave New World

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Fahrenheit 451

• The Hunger Games

What novel has this opening line? "It was a pleasure to burn."

• Treasure Island

• 1984

• Brave New World

• Fahrenheit 451

Which book starts with the words, '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...'?

• Oliver Twist

• Great Expectations

• Bleak House

• David Copperfield

What novel has this opening line? "It was a dark and stormy night..."

• The Haunting of Hill House

• Wuthering Heights

• Frankenstein

• Paul Clifford

What novel has this opening line? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

• Great Expectations

• A Tale of Two Cities

• Bleak House

• Oliver Twist

What novel has this opening line? "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids."

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• The Hobbit

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

What novel starts with this line, 'Call me Ishmael'?

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• Moby-Dick

• Treasure Island

• The Old Man and the Sea

What novel has this opening line? "It was a bright and sunny morning when she walked into my office..."

• The Long Goodbye

• The Maltese Falcon

• The Big Sleep

• Farewell, My Lovely

What novel has this opening line? "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

• Neuromancer

• The Diamond Age

• Snow Crash

• Altered Carbon

What novel has this opening line? "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."

• Little Women

• The Secret Garden

• I Capture the Castle

• Anne of Green Gables

What novel has this opening line? "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

• A Little Life

• The Goldfinch

• The Secret History

• Middlesex

You've conquered half of the quiz! Which novel opens with the line, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'?

• Emma

• Jane Eyre

• Pride and Prejudice

• Sense and Sensibility

What novel has this opening line? "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

• Crime and Punishment

• The Brothers Karamazov

• Anna Karenina

• War and Peace

What novel has this opening line? "It was the day my grandmother exploded."

• The Road

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

• The Grapes of Wrath

• The Crow Road

What novel has this opening line? "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• The Catcher in the Rye

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Road

What novel has this opening line? "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Bell Jar

• The Road

• To Kill a Mockingbird

What novel has this opening line? "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

• Lord of the Flies

• Oliver Twist

• The Coral Island

• Treasure Island

What novel has this opening line? "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Plague

• The Metamorphosis

• The Trial

Which book starts with the words, 'It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'?

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Brave New World

• Fahrenheit 451

• 1984

What novel has this opening line? "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

• The Go-Between

• Great Expectations

• Jane Eyre

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

You're getting very close to the end! What novel has this opening line? "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born."

• The Catcher in the Rye

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• Great Expectations

• Jane Eyre

You're almost at the end! What novel has this opening line? "All this happened, more or less."

• Slaughterhouse-Five

• The Naked and the Dead

• The Thin Red Line

• Catch-22

And finally, what novel has this opening line? "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

• The Sun Also Rises

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Great Gatsby

• The Sound and the Fury