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Line	Author	Answer	% Correct
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.	Douglas Adams	The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy	79%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	74%
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book, thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	68%
At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	68%
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.	Franz Kafka	Metamorphosis	68%
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.	F Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	68%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	George Orwell	1984	63%
3 May. Bistritz.- Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but the train was an hour late.	Bram Stoker	Dracula	63%
It was a pleasure to burn.	Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451	63%
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	63%
All children, except one, grow up.	JM Barrie	Peter Pan	63%
Robert Langdon awoke slowly.	Dan Brown	The Da Vinci Code	63%
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	63%
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence.	Jane Austen	Emma	58%
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	58%
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down to the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.	William Golding	Lord of the Flies	58%
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	58%
By now the other warriors, those that had escaped head-long ruin by sea or in a battle, were safely home.	Homer	The Odyssey	58%
Dorothy lived in the midst of the Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.	L Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	58%
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?	William Blake	Tyger!	58%
Marley was dead, to begin with.	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	53%
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.	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	53%
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	53%
These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	53%
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	53%
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	53%
Call me Ishmael.	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	53%
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.	John Milton	Paradise Lost	53%
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	53%
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.	CS Lewis	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	53%
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary...	Edgar Allen Poe	The Raven	53%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	53%
Stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.	James Joyce	Ulysses	53%
1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord.	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	53%
What's it going to be then, eh?	Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	47%
High atop the steps of the Pyramid of Giza a young woman laughed and called down to him.	Dan Brown	Angels and Demons	47%
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.	JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	47%
The family of Dashwood has long been settled in Sussex.	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	47%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.	Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar	47%
Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	47%
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like.	JD Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	47%
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	47%
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.	JRR Tolkien	The Hobbit	47%
It was three hundred forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University, and the Town.	Victor Hugo	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	47%
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God.	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	47%
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesy, ad the rest of those gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	47%
It was love at first site.	Joseph Heller	Catch-22	42%
Midway along the path of life.	Dante Alighieri	Divine Comedy	42%
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind	42%
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	42%
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage...	Jane Austen	Persuasion	42%
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.	Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca	42%
The boy's name was Santiago.	Paulo Coelho	The Alchemist	42%
Buck did not read the newspapers or he would have known that trouble was brewing.	Jack London	The Call of the Wild	42%
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.	Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	42%
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.	Rudyard Kipling	The Jungle Book	42%
A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.	George Eliot	The Mill on the Floss	42%
There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.	Douglas Adams	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	42%
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	42%
On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the town of Meung, in which the author of The Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in a perfect state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second Rochelle of it.	Alexandre Dumas	The Three Musketeers	42%
Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	42%
We are five miles behind the front.	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	37%
All happy families are all alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	37%
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.	Philip K Dick	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	37%
On they went, singing 'Rest Eternal,' and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing.	Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago	37%
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	37%
Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of sails, and was at rest.	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	37%
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	37%
We were in the study-hall when the headmaster entered, followed by a new boy not yet in school uniform and by the handyman carrying a large desk.	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	37%
About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon with only seven thousand pounds had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram.	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	37%
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small- to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	37%
On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout of Notre Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	37%
Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter.	Mario Puzo	The Godfather	37%
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where there was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.	John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress	37%
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.	Franz Kafka	The Trial	37%
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.	Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	37%
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.	Lewis Carroll	Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There	37%
Mr Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.	Jules Verne	Around the World in 80 Days	32%
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.	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	32%
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.	Rudyard Kipling	If	32%
For a long time I went to bed early.	Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	32%
I am an invisible man.	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	32%
The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.	Peter Benchley	Jaws	32%
In 1815, Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-.	Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	32%
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.	George Eliot	Middlemarch	32%
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green.	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	32%
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	32%
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies.	Lord Byron	She walks in beauty	32%
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.	Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Secret Garden	32%
Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don't know.	Albert Camus	The Stranger	32%
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 scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.	HG Wells	The War of the Worlds	32%
The primroses were over.	Richard Adams	Watership Down	32%
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood-red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank...	Bret Easton Ellis	American Psycho	26%
Except for the Marabar Caves- and they are twenty miles off- the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.	EM Forster	A Passage to India	26%
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	26%
The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	26%
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	26%
Please, sir, is this Plumfield? asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.	Louisa May Alcott	Little Men	26%
My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind.	Ovid	Metamorphoses	26%
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall.	Philip Pullman	Northern Lights	26%
All this happened, more or less.	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five	26%
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queen	26%
I returned from the city about three o'clock on that May afternoon, pretty well disgusted with life.	John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps	26%
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.	Gunter Grass	The Tin Drum	26%
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.	Henry James	The Turn of the Screw	26%
An author ought to consider himself not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat.	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	26%
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlour in the town of P--, in Kentucky.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	26%
I sing of arms and the man.	Virgil	Aeneid	21%
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow.	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables	21%
124 was spiteful.	Toni Morrison	Beloved	21%
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.	Hunter S Thompson	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	21%
In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.	Louisa May Alcott	Good Wives	21%
When I was three and Bailey was four, we had arrived in the musty little town.	Maya Angelou	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	21%
I looked at my notes and I didn't like them.	Isaac Asimov	I, Robot	21%
He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.	Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim	21%
I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	21%
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree, Siddharta, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend Govinda.	Hermann Hesse	Siddhartha	21%
'The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row'.	DH Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	21%
It was late in the evening when K. arrived.	Franz Kafka	The Castle	21%
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house.	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	21%
It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement.	Gaston Leroux	The Phantom of the Opera	21%
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.	Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage	21%
To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'.	Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses	21%
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed.	Robert Louis Stevenson	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	21%
Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime.	Andrew Marvell	To His Coy Mistress	21%
Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo.	Dodie Smith	101 Dalmatians	16%
The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.	Arthur C Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey	16%
O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June.	Robert Burns	A Red Red Rose	16%
Who is John Galt?	Ayn Rand	Atlas Shrugged	16%
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.	Anna Sewell	Black Beauty	16%
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	16%
I am always drawn back to the places where I have lived, the houses & their neighborhoods.	Truman Capote	Breakfast at Tiffany's	16%
In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition.	Voltaire	Candide	16%
Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.	Stephen King	Carrie	16%
Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.	Ian Fleming	Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang	16%
When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.	Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	16%
Riverrun, past Eve's and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay...	James Joyce	Finnegan's Wake	16%
His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.	Isaac Asimov	Foundation	16%
Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.	James Baldwin	Go Tell It on the Mountain	16%
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'.	Truman Capote	In Cold Blood	16%
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.	DH Lawrence	Lady Chatterley's Lover	16%
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Love in the Time of Cholera	16%
This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.	WH Auden	Night Mail	16%
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen.	John Keats	On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	16%
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 coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.	James Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	16%
When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse.	EB White	Stuart Little	16%
On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbevilles	16%
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.	Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep	16%
You better not tell nobody but God.	Alice Walker	The Color Purple	16%
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed.	Peter William Blatty	The Exorcist	16%
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.	Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	16%
This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it.	William Golding	The Princess Bride	16%
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	16%
The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, 'Why don't you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up.'	John Le Carre	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	16%
Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.	Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	16%
Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theatre.	John Irving	The World According to Garp	16%
The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.	John Le Carre	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	16%
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.	DH Lawrence	Women in Love	16%
All true histories contain instruction, though in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.	Anne Bronte	Agnes Grey	11%
Where's Papa going with that ax? said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.	EB White	Charlotte's Web	11%
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat back in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.	Ian Fleming	Goldfinger	11%
Now, what I want is Facts.	Charles Dickens	Hard Times	11%
He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun of Zam-Zammeh on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaibgher- the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum.	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	11%
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived 12 little girls in two straight lines.	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline	11%
If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask a policeman at the crossroads.	PL Travers	Mary Poppins	11%
Even in high summer, Tintagel was a haunted place; Igraine, Lady of Duke Gorlois, looked out over the sea from the headland.	Marion Zimmer Bradley	Mists of Avalon	11%
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in Bramford had become available.	Ira Levin	Rosemary's Baby	11%
It was Mrs May who first told me about them.	Mary Norton	The Borrowers	11%
The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark furious sea like an awkward animal...	Robert Ludlum	The Bourne Identiity	11%
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.	James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans	11%
After dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat: he had said 'I'll be with you at latest by ten,' and when midnight had struck I couldn't stay quiet any longer and went down into the street.	Graham Greene	The Quiet American	11%
You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.	Anne Bronte	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	11%
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.	John Keats	To Autumn	11%
The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.	Irvine Welsh	Trainspotting	11%
I am living at the Villa Borghese.	Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	11%
My Godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.	Charlotte Bronte	Villette	11%
From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office...	William Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!	5%
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?	Wilfred Owen	Anthem for Doomed Youth	5%
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.	John Irving	A Prayer for Owen Meany	5%
This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.	Kurt Vonnegut	Breakfast of Champions	5%
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view before me through the grey mist of early morning.	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	5%
The Volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.	Arthur C Clarke	Childhood's End	5%
Not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.	Stephen King	Cujo	5%
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.	Anthony Burgess	Earthly Powers	5%
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale...	John Keats	Hyperion	5%
It is a curious thing that at my age, fifty-five last birthday, I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.	H Rider Haggard	King Solomon's Mines	5%
Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.	Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	5%
He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.	Virginia Woolf	Orlando	5%
Mr. Donnelly, the track coach, ended the day's practice early because Henry Fuller's father came down to the high-school field to tell Henry that they had just got a telegram from Washington announcing that Henry's brother had been killed in action in Germany.	Irwin Shaw	Rich Man, Poor Man	5%
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such a fashion that we cannot forget them.	H Rider Haggard	She	5%
The success of a marriage invariably depends on the woman, Mrs. Greenway said.	Larry McMurtry	Terms of Endearment	5%
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.	HP Lovecraft	The Call of Cthulu	5%
It was the day my grandmother exploded.	Iain Banks	The Crow Road	5%
Ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim was arrested at his home in Ranpur at 5am on August 9th 1942 by a senior English police officer who arrived in a car, with a motorcycle escort, two armed guards and a warrant for his detention under the Defence of India Rules.	Paul Scott	The Day of the Scorpion	5%
When fishes flew and forests walked and figs grew upon thorn.	GK Chesterton	The Donkey	5%
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.	Mitch Albom	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	5%
The summer my father bought the bear, none of us was born- we weren't even conceived: not Frank, the oldest; not Fanny, the loudest; not me, the next; and not the youngest of us, Lilly and Egg.	John Irving	The Hotel New Hampshire	5%
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the 'Lady Vain'.	HG Wells	The Island of Doctor Moreau	5%
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.	Ursula K Le Guin	The Left Hand of Darkness	5%
Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.	Agatha Christie	The Mirror Crack'd	5%
An ancient English Cathedral Tower?	Charles Dickens	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	5%
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong...	GK Chesterton	The Napoleon of Notting Hill	5%
Night is generally my time for walking.	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	5%
There was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself...	Norton Juster	The Phantom Tollbooth	5%
Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the Mexican sun.	Graham Greene	The Power and the Glory	5%
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.	Joseph Conrad	The Secret Agent	5%
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.	Rupert Brooke	The Soldier	5%
Should you ask me, whence these stories?	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Song of Hiawatha	5%
For many days we had been tempest-tossed.	Johann Wyss	The Swiss Family Robinson	5%
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying.	Robert Herrick	To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	5%
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.	Jung Chang	Wild Swans	5%
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.	James Agee	A Death in the Family	0%
When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve.	Joseph Conrad	An Outcast of the Islands	0%
Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity- Good.	Katherine Paterson	Bridge to Terabithia	0%
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.	Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	0%
A voice comes to one in the dark.	Samuel Beckett	Company	0%
Along this particular stretch of line, no express had ever passed.	Aldous Huxley	Crome Yellow	0%
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.	Edith Wharton	Ethan Frome	0%
Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike', past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated any more, a widower now and uncle to half a country and father to one.	William Faulkner	Go Down, Moses	0%
A screaming comes across the sky.	Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow	0%
He is very ugly, said his mother.	Taylor Caldwell	Great Lion of God	0%
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came..	Richard Matheson	I Am Legend	0%
Everytime he drove through Yorkville, Rosenbaum got angry, just on general principles.	William Goldman	Marathon Man	0%
It was an afternoon in late September.	Richard & Florence Atwater	Mr Popper's Penguins	0%
It was a dark and stormy night and 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.	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Paul Clifford	0%
Even in the dry heat of summer's end, the great forest was never silent.	Richard Adams	Shardik	0%
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	0%
Like a glowing jewel, the city lay upon the breast of the desert.	Arthur C Clarke	The City and the Stars	0%
It was not that Omri didn't appreciate Patrick's birthday present to him.	Lynne Reid Banks	The Indian in the Cupboard	0%
They came through on the hot line at about half past two in the afternoon.	Len Deighton	The Ipcress File	0%
September 1653. The last of summer. The first chill winds of autumn.	Daphne du Maurier	The King's General	0%
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting 'V' under the more flexible 'V' of his mouth.	Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon	0%
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.	GK Chesterton	The Man who was Thursday	0%
Kino awakened in the near dark.	John Steinbeck	The Pearl	0%
The other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter.	Charlotte Bronte	The Professor	0%
Wee, sleekit cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in thy breastie.	Robert Burns	To a Field Mouse	0%

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