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...'?

• Pride and Prejudice

• Jane Eyre

• Gone With the Wind

• Sense and Sensibility

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

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Fahrenheit 451

• Brave New World

• The Hunger Games

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

• Fahrenheit 451

• 1984

• Treasure Island

• Brave New World

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

• Great Expectations

• David Copperfield

• Oliver Twist

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

• Wuthering Heights

• Paul Clifford

• The Haunting of Hill House

• Frankenstein

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

• Bleak House

• A Tale of Two Cities

• Oliver Twist

• Great Expectations

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

• The Hobbit

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

• Moby-Dick

• Treasure Island

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• 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 Maltese Falcon

• Farewell, My Lovely

• The Long Goodbye

• The Big Sleep

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

• Snow Crash

• Neuromancer

• The Diamond Age

• Altered Carbon

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

• Anne of Green Gables

• I Capture the Castle

• The Secret Garden

• Little Women

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."

• Middlesex

• The Goldfinch

• The Secret History

• 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'?

• Sense and Sensibility

• Emma

• Jane Eyre

• Pride and Prejudice

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

• Anna Karenina

• War and Peace

• Crime and Punishment

• The Brothers Karamazov

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

• The Grapes of Wrath

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

• The Crow Road

• The 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 Road

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Catcher in the Rye

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 Road

• The Catcher in the Rye

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Bell Jar

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."

• Oliver Twist

• Treasure Island

• The Coral Island

• Lord of the Flies

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 Metamorphosis

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• The Trial

• The Plague

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

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Fahrenheit 451

• Brave New World

• 1984

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

• Jane Eyre

• Great Expectations

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• 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."

• 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."

• The Thin Red Line

• Slaughterhouse-Five

• The Naked and the Dead

• 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 Sound and the Fury

• The Sun Also Rises

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Great Gatsby