Read and Re-read | My Favorite First Lines @readandre-read | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Some of my all time favorite openings to novels. Did I include your favorite? What did I leave out?

Books in the video:
Emma by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
1984 by George Orwell

Honorable Mention:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle