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...'?

• Jane Eyre

• Gone With the Wind

• Pride and Prejudice

• Sense and Sensibility

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

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Brave New World

• The Hunger Games

• Fahrenheit 451

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

• Fahrenheit 451

• Brave New World

• Treasure Island

• 1984

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...'?

• Bleak House

• David Copperfield

• Oliver Twist

• Great Expectations

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

• Frankenstein

• The Haunting of Hill House

• Wuthering Heights

• Paul Clifford

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

• Great Expectations

• Bleak House

• Oliver Twist

• A Tale of Two Cities

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."

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• The Hobbit

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

• The Old Man and the Sea

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• Moby-Dick

• Treasure Island

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

• The Maltese Falcon

• The Big Sleep

• Farewell, My Lovely

• The Long Goodbye

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."

• Anne of Green Gables

• I Capture the Castle

• Little Women

• The Secret Garden

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."

• The Secret History

• The Goldfinch

• Middlesex

• A Little Life

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'?

• Jane Eyre

• Sense and Sensibility

• Emma

• Pride and Prejudice

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

• War and Peace

• The Brothers Karamazov

• Anna Karenina

• Crime and Punishment

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

• The Road

• The Crow Road

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

• The Grapes of Wrath

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."

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• 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

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Bell Jar

• The Road

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."

• The Coral Island

• Lord of the Flies

• Oliver Twist

• 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."

• The Trial

• The Metamorphosis

• The Plague

• To Kill a Mockingbird

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

• 1984

• Brave New World

• Fahrenheit 451

• The Handmaid's Tale

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

• Jane Eyre

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• Great Expectations

• The Go-Between

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."

• Jane Eyre

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• The Catcher in the Rye

• Great Expectations

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

• Catch-22

• The Thin Red Line

• The Naked and the Dead

• Slaughterhouse-Five

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 Sound and the Fury

• The Sun Also Rises

• The Great Gatsby

• The Catcher in the Rye