1. Moby Dick
   A Tale of Two Cities
2. Othello

"Call me Ishmael" is the first line from Moby Dick. Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville in 1851.

1. Lolita
   Pride and Prejudice
2. Othello

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" is the first line of Pride and Prejudice. This classic novel was written by Jane Austen in 1813.

1. A Tale of Two Cities
   One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. Romeo and Juliet

"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" is the opening line of the classic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The book was written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967.

1. Anna Karenina
   Othello
2. Plato

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the opening line of the classic novel Anna Karenina. The book was written by Leo Tolstoy in 1877.

1. Romeo and Juliet
   A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1984

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" is the opening line of 1984. The book was written by George Orwell in 1949.

1. 1984
   Sybil
2. A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." is the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities. The book was written by Charles Dickens in 1859.

1. Invisible man
   A Tale of Two Cities
2. Othello

"I am an invisible man" is the opening line of Invisible Man. The book was written by Ralph Ellison in 1952. Yeah, this one was kind of a gimme.

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Plato's Republic

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter" is the opening line of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book was written by Mark Twain in 1885.

1. Moby Dick
   The Trial
2. 1984

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested" is the opening line of the classic novel The Trial. The book was written by Franz Kafka in 1925.

1. A Tale of Two Cities
   Hamlet
2. The Catcher in the Rye

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born ..." is the first line of the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye. The book was written by J.D. Salinger in 1951.

1. Hamlet
   Othello
2. David Copperfield

"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" is the opening line of the classic novel David Copperfield. The book was written by Charles Dickens in 1850.

1. Ulysses
   Hamlet
2. Othello

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed" is the opening line of the classic novel Ulysses. The book was written by James Joyce in 1922.

1. Moby Dick
   Beloved
2. Lolita

"124 was spiteful" is the opening line of the classic novel Beloved. The book was written by Toni Morrison in 1987.

1. The Stranger
   Hamlet
2. Romeo and Juliet

"Mother died today" is the opening line of the classic novel The Stranger. The book was written by Albert Camus in 1942.

1. 1984
   Animal Farm
2. Notes from Underground

"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man" is the opening line of Notes from Underground. The book was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1864.

1. 1984
   Animal Farm
2. The Unnameable

"Where now? Who now? When now?" is the opening line of the classic novel The Unnameable. The book was written by Samuel Beckett in 1953.

1. Hamlet
   Othello
2. The End of the Road

"In a sense, I am Jacob Horner" is the opening line of The End of the Road. The book was written by John Barth in 1958.

1. Othello
   Mrs. Dalloway
2. Romeo and Juliet

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself" is the opening line of the classic novel Mrs. Dalloway. The book was written by Virginia Woolf in 1925. If you didn't guess this one correctly, you're in trouble.

1. 1984
   Slaughterhouse Five
2. Animal Farm

"All this happened, more or less" is the opening line of the classic novel Slaughterhouse Five. The book was written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1969.

1. Othello
   Swann's Way
2. 1984

For a long time, I went to bed early" is the opening line of the classic novel Swann's Way. The book was written by Marcel Proust in 1913.

1. Lolita
   Othello
2. The Old Man and the Sea

"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" is the opening line of The Old Man and the Sea. The book was written by Ernest Hemingway in 1952.

1. 1984
   Fahrenheit 451
2. Lolita

"It was a pleasure to burn" is the opening line of the classic novel Fahrenheit 451. The book was written by Ray Bradbury in 1953.

1. Robinson Crusoe
   Othello
2. Lolita

"I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country..." is the opening line of the classic novel Robinson Crusoe. The book was written by Daniel Defoe in 1719.

1. Middlemarch
   1984
2. Othello

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress" is the opening line of the classic novel Middlemarch. The book was written by George Eliot in 1872.

1. Catch-22
   1984
2. The Hobbit

"It was love at first sight" is the opening line of the classic novel Catch-22. The book was written by Joseph Heller in 1961.

1. 1984
   The Razor's Edge
2. Hamlet

"I have never begun a novel with more misgiving" is the opening line of the classic novel The Razor's Edge. The book was written by W. Somerset Maugham in 1944.

1. Lolita
   Hamlet
2. The Napoleon of Notting HIll

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning" is the opening line of the classic novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill. The book was written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904.

1. Lolita
   Animal Farm
2. The Great Gatsby

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since" is the opening line of the classic novel The Great Gatsby. The book was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925.

1. Lolita
   Slaughterhouse Five
2. The Color Purple

"You better not never tell nobody but God" is the opening line of the classic novel The Color Purple. The book was written by Alice Walker in 1982.

1. Lolita
   The Invisible Man
2. The Bell Jar

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York" is the opening line of the classic novel The Bell Jar. The book was written by Sylvia Plath in 1963.

1. A Farewell to Arms
   Lolita
2. Slaughterhouse Five

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains" is the opening line of the classic novel A Farewell to Arms. The book was written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929.

1. Hamlet
   A Tale of Two Cities
2. I Capture the Castle

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the opening line of the classic novel I Capture the Castle. The book was written by Dodie Smith in 1948.

1. 1984
   Lolita
2. I, Claudius

"I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as..." is the opening line of the classic novel I, Claudius. The book was written by Robert Graves in 1934.

1. 1984
   Hamlet
2. Cat's Eye

"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space" is the opening line of the classic novel Cat's Eye. The book was written by Margaret Atwood in 1988.

1. 1984
   Slaughterhouse Five
2. The Red Badge of Courage

"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting" is the opening line of the classic novel The Red Badge of Courage. The book was written by Stephen Crane in 1895.