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...'?

• Gone With the Wind

• Pride and Prejudice

• Jane Eyre

• Sense and Sensibility

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

• The Handmaid's Tale

• The Hunger Games

• Brave New World

• Fahrenheit 451

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

• Treasure Island

• Brave New World

• Fahrenheit 451

• 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...'?

• Oliver Twist

• Bleak House

• David Copperfield

• Great Expectations

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

• Frankenstein

• Paul Clifford

• Wuthering Heights

• The Haunting of Hill House

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

• Oliver Twist

• Bleak House

• A Tale of Two Cities

• 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."

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

• The Hobbit

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• The Old Man and 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."

• The Diamond Age

• Neuromancer

• Snow Crash

• Altered Carbon

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

• Little Women

• I Capture the Castle

• The Secret Garden

• 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."

• The Secret History

• A Little Life

• Middlesex

• The Goldfinch

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

• Pride and Prejudice

• Sense and Sensibility

• Jane Eyre

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

• Anna Karenina

• The Brothers Karamazov

• Crime and Punishment

• War and Peace

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 Road

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• 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 Bell Jar

• The Catcher in the Rye

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• 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

• Oliver Twist

• Treasure 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 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'?

• Fahrenheit 451

• 1984

• Brave New World

• The Handmaid's Tale

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

• Great Expectations

• The Go-Between

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• Jane Eyre

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."

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• Great Expectations

• The Catcher in the Rye

• Jane Eyre

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

• Catch-22

• The Naked and the Dead

• Slaughterhouse-Five

• The Thin Red Line

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 Great Gatsby

• The Catcher in the Rye

• The Sound and the Fury

• The Sun Also Rises