Opening Lines of Books #2

Guess the book, based on its opening line.

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Opening line	Book
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...	A Tale of Two Cities
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.	The Bell Jar
...light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.	Lolita
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.	Life of Pi
It was love at first sight.	Catch-22
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.	The Hunger Games
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.	The Great Gatsby
You better not never tell nobody but God.	The Color Purple
I was born twice...	Middlesex
A screaming comes across the sky.	Gravity's Rainbow
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.	The Old Man and the Sea
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
It was a pleasure to burn.	Fahrenheit 451
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler