Best first lines from novels
I’m not a novel reader - I only read programming and self-help books. Reading this compilation of 100 best first lines from novels would be the closest for me reading novels. Here’s one I like.
Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I’ve come to learn, is women. —Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990).
Read more of 100 best first lines from novels published over the years.
