Sorcerers Apprentice Reads | Harshly Judging First Paragraphs of Favorite Books @SorcerersApprenticeReads | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
All credit to BookBinge (youtube.com/channel/UC1kdT9rkaH1dCesPLgTS2dA)
for the original idea.

My last video ranking books by their first paragraph: youtu.be/lQnZzOfoN4E

0:00 intro
01:10 Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
02:11 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
04:18 Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
05:23 Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
06:23 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
09:02 Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
10:28 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
12:20 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
13:36 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
14:50 City of Brass by S.A Chakraborty