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30 Novels With the Best Opening Lines (+ 2 Favourites)

I checked out these opening lines and do agree that they grab your attention. The two favourites are the last two novels in this list.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
3
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
4
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
5
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
7
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
8
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
9
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
10
The Go-Between
The Go-Between
11
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
12
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
13
Murphy
Murphy
14
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
15
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
16
Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
17
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
18
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
19
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
20
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
22
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
23
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
24
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
25
The Crow Road
The Crow Road
26
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
27
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
28
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
29
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
30
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
31
The Outsiders
The Outsiders
32
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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