Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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My favorite first lines from all the books I read in 2021!

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BOOKS MENTIONED
Kalpa Imperial , Angélica Gorodischer (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
Fathoms, Rebecca Giggs
The Romanov Sisters, Helen Rappaport
Stubborn Archivist, Yara Rodrigues Fowler
The remains of the day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Can you forgive her?, Anthony Trollope
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era, Gareth Russell
The Queen of Jasmine County, Sharanya Manivannan
The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
Delirium, Laura Restrepo
One Hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

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TIME STAMP
00:00 - Intro
3:03 - Top 10 First Lines
14:11 - Favorite Last Line
16:15 - Outro

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