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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
1775 - 1817

The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
1902 - 1968

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
 

The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
1905 - 1982

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
1816 - 1855

Howard Roark laughed.

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.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 - 1940

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
1835 - 1910

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
1920 -

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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.

It was a pleasure to burn.
 

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a “new fellow,” not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
1911 -

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
1819 - 1991

The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

Call me Ishmael.

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green.
 

Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
1922 -

The Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870

Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
1919 -

All this happened, more or less.
 

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 far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.