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1. "They call me Ishmael"
Herman Melville
Fiddler on the roof
The old man and the sea
Moby Dick
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
2. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen'
George Orwell
1984
Ulysses
In Search of Lost Time
One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. '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
Emma
The Great Gatsby
Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
4. 'You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy'
Alice Walker
Lolita
The Color Purple
The Brothers Karamazov
Midnight's Children
5. 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
Gulliver's Travels
The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
The Sun also Rises
The Magic Mountain
6. "I'm pretty much f*cked
Andy Weir
The Martian
The Mountaineer
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The usual suspects
7. The past is a foreign country' they do things differently there.
Leslie Hartley (L. P. Hartley)
The Odyssey
Wuthering Heights
The Go-Between
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8. 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.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
War and Peace
The Lord of the Rings
Les Miserables
9. 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, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me.
J. D. Salinger
A Passage to India
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
10. 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
Brave New World
Vanity Fair
A Farewell to Arms
11. The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
Jules Verne
Journey to the End of The Night
The Scarlet Letter
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Handmaid's Tale
12. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment
The Trial
Paradise Lost
Waiting for Godot
13. Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield.
Miguel De Cervantes
Lord Jim
The Tin Drum
King Lear
Don Quixote
14. The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
Arthur C. Clarke
The War of the Worlds
2001 a Space Odyssey
All the King's Men
Epic of Gilgamesh
15. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.