Books With Our Favorite First Lines
- List of the Month
- juni 2023 (see all)
- Beschrijving
- First impressions are powerful, and the first lines of the books we read can pack quite a punch. Our List of the Month this June is devoted to the books with our favorite first lines. Each participant may vote on ten titles. Please do not downvote titles, as judgment in these matters is subjective.
1
door Jane Austen
81,266 leden
1,373 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 85.94
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 25 Members
- rosalita, anglemark, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, mldg, dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, merrystar, victoriapeak, sturlington, kleh, susanbooks, michigantrumpet, ahef1963, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong, asiralh, Boand, steller0707, teesamai, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- amanda4242: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
2
door J. R. R. Tolkien
95,967 leden
1,196 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 61.76
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:30 PM
- 19 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, kleo, yoyogod, abbottthomas, dewasus1, sharder, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963, flying_monkeys, timetunnel, msjudy, msemmag, barefootsong, mirryi, PeanutNoir
- Verklaringen
- amanda4242: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
3
door Daphne Du Maurier
21,053 leden
618 besprekingen
4.2
Score 54.36
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:26 PM
- 17 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, magnetgrrl, dewasus1, sturlington, kleh, perennialreader, Porua, souloftherose, tina1969, ahef1963, msemmag, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir
- Verklaringen
- rosalita: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
4
door Charles Dickens
37,204 leden
455 besprekingen
3.9
Score 52.16
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 06:04 AM
- 17 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, lahochstetler, dewasus1, PitcherBooks, merrystar, kleh, perennialreader, Tess_W, Boand, CharlesTheB, TMCTX, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- paradoxosalpha: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
5
- 16 Members
- lorax, Cecilturtle, paradoxosalpha, kleo, sturlington, souloftherose, susanbooks, katemcangus, al.vick, ahef1963, AntonioGallo, asiralh, steller0707, CharlesTheB, tekitora, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- al.vick: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."AntonioGallo: Phrases such as "Big Brother is watching you" and "doublethink" have entered the lexicon and are often used to describe similar situations in modern times.
6
door Douglas Adams
39,278 leden
719 besprekingen
4.2
Score 47.68
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 09:12 AM
- 16 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, yoyogod, abbottthomas, elenchus, Porua, al.vick, ahef1963, kristilabrie, timetunnel, SandraArdnas, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- al.vick: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
7
door C. S. Lewis
25,894 leden
256 besprekingen
4
Score 45.13
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:44 PM
- 16 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, sharder, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, sturlington, EMS_24, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, slimikin
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
8
door Charles Dickens
25,231 leden
527 besprekingen
4.1
Score 42.09
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 03:15 PM
- 13 Members
- hipdeep, anglemark, magnetgrrl, masterdeski, merrystar, dougb56586, souloftherose, Debashis.book, barefootsong, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, slimikin
- Verklaringen
- merrystar: "Marley was dead, to begin with."
9
door Ray Bradbury
54,750 leden
1,011 besprekingen
4
Score 40.64
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:07 PM
- 14 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, sturlington, RBeffa, katemcangus, Tess_W, barefootsong, steller0707, DoomLuz, slimikin, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- rosalita: "IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN."
10
door Leo Tolstoy
39,028 leden
627 besprekingen
4.1
Score 37.72
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 02:53 PM
- 13 Members
- Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, lahochstetler, dewasus1, saskia17, Cecrow, PitcherBooks, kleh, perennialreader, katemcangus, Tess_W, CharlesTheB, HH_Library
- Verklaringen
- perennialreader: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
11
- 12 Members
- dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, merrystar, EMS_24, perennialreader, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, HH_Library, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
12
door L. P. Hartley
2,357 leden
40 besprekingen
4
Score 33.68
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 11:49 AM
- 12 Members
- anglemark, pitjrw, abbottthomas, dewasus1, elenchus, victoriapeak, kleh, RBeffa, susanbooks, Boand, steller0707, loulourevisited
- Verklaringen
- susanbooks: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
13
door Shirley Jackson
10,002 leden
433 besprekingen
3.9
Score 29.65
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:41 PM
- 10 Members
- rosalita, pitjrw, sturlington, Porua, ahef1963, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
14
door William Gibson
23,305 leden
377 besprekingen
3.9
Score 29.23
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 9 Members
- hipdeep, kleo, GuyMontag, Cecrow, elenchus, souloftherose, vwinsloe, timetunnel, Mguod
- Verklaringen
- Cecrow: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
15
door Karl Marx
15,366 leden
137 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 23.07
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 11:55 AM
- 8 Members
- paradoxosalpha, pitjrw, elenchus, kleh, susanbooks, ahef1963, elahrairah, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- susanbooks: A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
16
door Madeleine L'Engle
40,183 leden
963 besprekingen
4
Score 22.57
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 11:07 PM
- 8 Members
- Aquila, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, dewasus1, masterdeski, TMCTX, Tosta, PureChaos
- Verklaringen
- Aquila: "It was a dark and stormy night."
17
door J. M. Barrie
19,332 leden
339 besprekingen
3.9
Score 20.45
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:03 PM
- 7 Members
- scampus, dewasus1, saskia17, Tess_W, al.vick, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong
- Verklaringen
- AbigailAdams26: “All children, except one, grow up."
18
44,901 leden
692 besprekingen
4.2
Score 20.18
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 12:04 PM
- 6 Members
- lorax, pitjrw, kleo, perennialreader, SandraArdnas, CharlesTheB
- Verklaringen
- SandraArdnas: Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. (...) The world was so recent that many things lacked names
19
door Dante Alighieri
24,339 leden
211 besprekingen
4.1
Score 17.5
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 10:54 AM
- 6 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, elenchus, AntonioGallo, barefootsong, slimikin
- Verklaringen
- paradoxosalpha: When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.AntonioGallo: I prefer "Inferno" since it is known for its exploration of moral and ethical issues. Dante uses the sins and punishments of the various characters to comment on the nature of sin, justice, and divine retribution. This gives the book a timeless quality that continues to resonate with readers today. Life, sometimes, is just like Inferno
20
door Sylvia Plath
28,488 leden
507 besprekingen
4
Score 16.23
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 6 Members
- lahochstetler, susanbooks, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, Tosta, HH_Library
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
21
door Martha Wells
5,762 leden
352 besprekingen
4.1
Score 16.09
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 11:25 PM
- 5 Members
- lizzy50usa, souloftherose, asiralh, Tosta, slimikin
- Verklaringen
- souloftherose: "I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module..."
22
door Donna Tartt
20,763 leden
553 besprekingen
4.1
Score 14.96
Toegevoegd 2023-06-12, 06:15 PM
- 5 Members
- lahochstetler, sturlington, msemmag, teesamai, jsclar
- Verklaringen
- sturlington: The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
23
door Erin Morgenstern
18,828 leden
1,270 besprekingen
4.1
Score 14.69
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 08:10 PM
- 5 Members
- saskia17, flying_monkeys, msjudy, Tosta, HH_Library
- Verklaringen
- saskia17: The circus arrives without warning.
24
door Kurt Vonnegut
44,587 leden
710 besprekingen
4.1
Score 14.54
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 12:13 PM
- 5 Members
- rosalita, elenchus, ahef1963, SandraArdnas, Tosta
- Verklaringen
- SandraArdnas: All this happened, more or less.
25
door Diana Gabaldon
24,083 leden
991 besprekingen
4.2
Score 14.27
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- chin2chin, masterdeski, Tess_W, al.vick, HH_Library
- Verklaringen
- al.vick: Prologue: "People disappear all the time."
26
door E. B. White
36,678 leden
1,025 besprekingen
4.2
Score 14.1
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- Cecilturtle, lahochstetler, elenchus, rodwms, PureChaos
27
door Herman Melville
35,998 leden
537 besprekingen
3.8
Score 13.81
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 5 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited
- Verklaringen
- Cecrow: "Call me Ishmael."
28
door William Goldman
25,175 leden
532 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 13.72
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 01:20 AM
29
door Italo Calvino
12,681 leden
259 besprekingen
4.1
Score 13.02
Toegevoegd 2023-06-16, 02:59 AM
- 4 Members
- anglemark, msemmag, CharlesTheB, kay.emme
- Verklaringen
- anglemark: "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, 'If on a winter's night a traveler'."
30
- 4 Members
- al.vick, timetunnel, HH_Library, PatrickBenner
- Verklaringen
- al.vick: "I'm pretty much fucked."
31
door Isak Dinesen
5,280 leden
101 besprekingen
3.9
Score 11.58
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:02 PM
- 4 Members
- otori, kleh, perennialreader, loulourevisited
- Verklaringen
- otori: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”perennialreader: I had a Farm in Africa.
32
door Jon Stone
5,330 leden
106 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Score 11.21
Toegevoegd 2023-06-15, 11:29 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, lahochstetler, Pepgiraffe
- Verklaringen
- EerierIdyllMeme: On the copyright page: "This is a very dull page. What is on the next page?"
33
door Henry James
10,938 leden
125 besprekingen
3.9
Score 11.06
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 4 Members
- PitcherBooks, EMS_24, ManWithAnAgenda, Boand
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
34
door Jane Austen
21,955 leden
417 besprekingen
3.8
Score 10.43
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 4 Members
- amanda4242, susanbooks, barefootsong, slimikin
- Verklaringen
- amanda4242: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine."
35
door Stephen King
23,063 leden
501 besprekingen
3.8
Score 10.19
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 04:07 AM
- 3 Members
- scampus, ianreads, sturlington
- Verklaringen
- sturlington: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
36
door H. P. Lovecraft
481 leden
11 besprekingen
3.8
Score 9.94
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 12:11 AM
- 4 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, yoyogod, elenchus
- Verklaringen
- yoyogod: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
37
door Tamsyn Muir
4,750 leden
190 besprekingen
4.1
Score 9.67
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 11:02 PM
38
door A. A. Milne
13,743 leden
206 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 9.67
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 11:41 AM
- 4 Members
- scampus, elenchus, susanbooks, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- susanbooks: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
39
1,290 leden
82 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 9.42
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 05:51 PM
- 3 Members
- LadyUndomiel, asiralh, Pepgiraffe
- Verklaringen
- asiralh: “Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken, rather nice-looking young gentleman by the name of Enrico Fermi was born into a family so overprotective that he felt compelled to invent the atomic bomb.”
40
door Ursula K. Le Guin
16,187 leden
389 besprekingen
4
Score 9.4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 10:55 PM
41
- 3 Members
- anglemark, sharder, loulourevisited
- Verklaringen
- anglemark: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε
42
door Philip Pullman
36,597 leden
745 besprekingen
4.1
Score 9.23
Toegevoegd 2023-06-19, 06:43 AM
- 3 Members
- sharder, barefootsong, Mark.Milton
- Verklaringen
- barefootsong: "Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
43
44
door Albert Camus
35,985 leden
506 besprekingen
3.9
Score 8.71
Toegevoegd 2023-06-14, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, Boand, CharlesTheB
- Verklaringen
- Cecilturtle: Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
45
door Marcel Proust
11,307 leden
181 besprekingen
4.2
Score 8.17
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 11:35 AM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, kleh, susanbooks
- Verklaringen
- susanbooks: For a long time I used to go to bed early.
46
door Sarah Waters
5,148 leden
149 besprekingen
4
Score 7.99
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 02:46 PM
- 3 Members
- anglemark, kristilabrie, msemmag
- Verklaringen
- kristilabrie: "Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?"
47
door Terry Pratchett
11,413 leden
156 besprekingen
4.1
Score 7.69
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 08:08 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, PitcherBooks, merrystar
- Verklaringen
- saskia17: Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree.
48
door Tom Robbins
5,818 leden
75 besprekingen
3.9
Score 7.04
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 08:10 AM
- 2 Members
- vwinsloe, SandraArdnas
- Verklaringen
- vwinsloe: "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."
49
door Norton Juster
17,768 leden
425 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 6.75
Toegevoegd 2023-06-12, 06:16 PM
- 3 Members
- merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- sturlington: There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.
50
door P. L. Travers
6,522 leden
164 besprekingen
3.9
Score 6.56
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 12:19 AM
51
door Samuel R. Delany
3,783 leden
75 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.56
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:32 PM
- 2 Members
- SavvyScot, amanda4242
- Verklaringen
- amanda4242: "to wound the autumnal city."
52
door Zora Neale Hurston
19,419 leden
348 besprekingen
4
Score 6.46
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 08:09 PM
53
door Charles Dickens
21,351 leden
280 besprekingen
4.1
Score 6.4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-19, 09:45 PM
- 2 Members
- msjudy, PeanutNoir
- Verklaringen
- PeanutNoir: "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."
54
door Isak Dinesen
2,130 leden
22 besprekingen
4
Score 6.4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-14, 08:39 PM
- 2 Members
- victoriapeak, RBeffa
- Verklaringen
- RBeffa: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
55
door H. G. Wells
18,722 leden
311 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.25
Toegevoegd 2023-06-11, 02:14 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, fvenez
- Verklaringen
- hipdeep: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
56
door Raymond Chandler
10,418 leden
285 besprekingen
4
Score 6.04
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 01:56 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, abbottthomas
- Verklaringen
- abbottthomas: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
57
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, SandraArdnas
- Verklaringen
- paradoxosalpha: There were angels in the glass, two four six many of them, each one shuffling into his place in line like an alderman at the Lord Mayor's show.
58
door Emily Brontë
52,862 leden
703 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.92
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:27 PM
59
door Ford Madox Ford
4,856 leden
114 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.87
Toegevoegd 2023-06-11, 02:04 PM
60
61
door Tanith Lee
689 leden
11 besprekingen
4.2
Score 5.67
Toegevoegd 2023-06-13, 01:28 AM
62
door Robert Silverberg
2,380 leden
35 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.42
Toegevoegd 2023-06-20, 05:31 PM
63
door Rose Macaulay
1,278 leden
37 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.35
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:03 PM
- 2 Members
- pitjrw, perennialreader
- Verklaringen
- perennialreader: Take my camel, dear, said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
64
door Graham Greene
6,608 leden
171 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.29
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 02:58 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, katemcangus
- Verklaringen
- rosalita: "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which, to look ahead."
65
door James Joyce
21,451 leden
216 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 5.21
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 12:06 PM
- 2 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB
- Verklaringen
- Cecrow: "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."
66
door Harper Lee
79,603 leden
1,437 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 5.13
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:13 PM
- 2 Members
- kleo, perennialreader
- Verklaringen
- perennialreader: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
67
31,000 leden
447 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.02
Toegevoegd 2023-06-14, 12:27 PM
- 2 Members
- CharlesTheB, loulourevisited
68
door Chuck Palahniuk
19,478 leden
325 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.02
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 11:34 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, elenchus
- Verklaringen
- paradoxosalpha: Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
69
door Douglas Adams
4,147 leden
83 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 5.02
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 09:13 AM
- 2 Members
- al.vick, SandraArdnas
- Verklaringen
- al.vick: "This isn't at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had ever met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years."
70
- 2 Members
- EerierIdyllMeme, CharlesTheB
- Verklaringen
- EerierIdyllMeme: There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a traveling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in the yellow light of tawdry motel rooms watching an excess of it, and had suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result.
71
door Trinitarian Bible
1 lid
Score 4.87
Toegevoegd 2023-06-14, 04:55 PM
72
door Anthony Doerr
19,213 leden
889 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 4.77
Toegevoegd 2023-06-20, 06:06 PM
73
door Bernard Cornwell
4,811 leden
148 besprekingen
4
Score 4.76
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 09:15 AM
74
door Peter S. Beagle
7,662 leden
193 besprekingen
4.2
Score 4.63
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 08:12 PM
75
door Patrick Süskind
18,333 leden
455 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-09, 02:42 PM
- Member
- kristilabrie
- Verklaringen
- kristilabrie: "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."
76
door Isabel Allende
14,097 leden
246 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-07-02, 10:57 AM
77
door Pearl S. Buck
14,080 leden
263 besprekingen
4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 03:59 PM
- Member
- Micheller7
- Verklaringen
- Micheller7: “It was Wang Lung’s wedding day.” I have remembered this line for about 65 years.
78
door Franz Kafka
12,766 leden
221 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-19, 06:40 AM
- Member
- sharder
79
door Evelyn Waugh
12,720 leden
263 besprekingen
4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-07-22, 08:17 AM
- Member
- dud5ers
80
door Douglas Adams
12,297 leden
120 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-15, 10:13 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Verklaringen
- EerierIdyllMeme: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".
81
door Thomas Pynchon
10,870 leden
142 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 05:07 PM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Verklaringen
- paradoxosalpha: A screaming comes across the sky.
82
door V. E. Schwab
7,758 leden
323 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-19, 02:40 PM
83
door Michel Faber
6,790 leden
197 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 05:30 AM
84
door Barbara W. Tuchman
6,679 leden
126 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 04:56 PM
- Member
- perennialreader
- Verklaringen
- perennialreader: So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration.
85
- Member
- Pepgiraffe
- Verklaringen
- Pepgiraffe: Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.
86
door Haruki Murakami
6,034 leden
96 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-08, 04:52 AM
87
88
89
- Member
- LibraryCin
- Verklaringen
- LibraryCin: Three days before her death, my mother told me -- these weren't her last words, but they were pretty lose -- that my brother was still alive.
90
door James M. Cain
3,512 leden
132 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-19, 09:31 PM
- Member
- PeanutNoir
- Verklaringen
- PeanutNoir: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon."
91
92
door Anthony Burgess
1,807 leden
38 besprekingen
4.2
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-07-23, 11:04 PM
- Member
- exhocforte
- Verklaringen
- exhocforte: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
93
door Daisy Ashford
549 leden
19 besprekingen
3.8
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-07, 01:49 PM
- Member
- abbottthomas
- Verklaringen
- abbottthomas: Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
94
door Frances Mary Hendry
491 leden
9 besprekingen
4.2
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-22, 10:32 PM
- Member
- barefootsong
- Verklaringen
- barefootsong: "When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king." This first line has stuck with me since I first read this in sixth grade.
95
door Margaret Mahy
343 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-06, 11:21 PM
96
- Member
- AbigailAdams26
- Verklaringen
- AbigailAdams26: Mr. C'Mere's first line: "Humans were diggers and buriers, the cat thought, like dogs." Zoë's first line: "I'd hoped for better, Henry's being a heart doctor. A job like that, you'd think he might actually have a heart."
97
102 leden
1 bespreking
4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2023-06-13, 03:30 PM
- Member
- prosfilaes
- Verklaringen
- prosfilaes: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
98
- Member
- EMS_24
- Verklaringen
- EMS_24: 'Except for the man who thought Sarphatistraat was the most beautiful place in Europe, I have never known a more curious fellow than the 'bummer/ deadbeat/ .'' - "Behalve den man, die de Sarphatistraat de mooiste plek van Europa vond, heb ik nooit een wonderlijker kerel gekend dan den uitvreter."
99
100
- Member
- paulmdh