Novel First Sentences

Just as the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, every story ever written began with just one sentence.

Novel Last Sentences

1984 by George Orwell

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby 

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

A Painful Case by James Joyce

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

ASoUE: The Reptile Room

ASoUE: The Wide Window

ASoUE: The Miserable Mill

A Son of the Circus by John Irving

A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle

A Winter in Majorca by George Sand

Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Abstract by Goodloe Byron

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Adverbs by Daniel Handler

Aeneid by Vergil

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Afterlife: The Complete Guide to Life After Death by Carol Neiman & Emily Goldman

Agent of Change by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 

Airman by Eoin Colfer

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Alchemist: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All the Sad Young Literary Men  by Keith Gessen

The Amanda Project by Amanda Valentino and Melissa Kantor

American Crisis by Thomas Paine

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben Winters

Android’s Dream by John Scalzi

Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

Anne’s House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

Artifact by Gregory Benford

Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, M.D.

Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Asylum by Patrick McGrath

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Aurelia by Anne Osterlund

Awakening by Kate Chopin

Back Home by Michelle Magorian

Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones

Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud

Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard

Beast by Donna Jo Napoli

Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates

Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bedbugs by Ben Winters

Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beneath the Abbey Wall by A.D. Scott

Better than Running at Night by Hillary Frank

Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters

Beyond the Pale by Savannah Russe

BFG by Roald Dahl

Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

Black Company by Glen Cook

Black Hole by Charles Burns

Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik

Bless the Child by Cathy Spellman

Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

The Book of Shadows by James Reese

Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Bridge Over The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey

By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen

Candide by Voltaire

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Captivated by Nora Roberts

Captured Queen by Alison Weir

The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of the Black Company: Shadows Linger by Glen Cook

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer

The Chronolith by Robert Charles Wilson

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Client by John Grisham

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

The Companions by Sheri S. Tepper

Confessions by J.J. Rousseau 

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Daemon by Daniel Suarez

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman

Dark Tower: Gunslinger by Stephen King

Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Dead by James Joyce

Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Death Collector by Justin Richards

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Deliverance from Evil by Frances Hill

The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers

Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn by Thomas Mann

Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman 

Downhill Chance by Donna Morrissey

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Dragon’s Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

Earth (the Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry

Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq

The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Emma by Jane Austen

Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Endymion by John Keats

English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 

Entwined by Heather Dixon

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Eternity Artifact by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ever by Gail Carson Levine

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King

Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Eye of the World, Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan

Eyes of the Calculor by Sean McMullen

Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey

False Princess by Eilis O’Neal

Family of Man by Carl Sandburg

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

Five People You Meet in the Heaven by Mitch Albom

Flight by Sherman Alexie

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Fool by Christopher Moore

The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! by Annette Curtis Klause

Free Air by Sinclair Lewis

Frisco Pigeon Mambo by C.D. Payne

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Garden by Elsie V. Aidinoff

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Giver by Lois Lowry

Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

The God Box by Alex Sanchez

Godfather by Mario Puzo

Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France

Going Beyond by Robert Gilbert

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Gone by Michael Grant

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Gossamer by Lois Lowry

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper

Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Perhaps by Joe Meno

Great Typo Hunt by Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson

Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson

Growing Pains by Billie Piper

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 

Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno

Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Haunt Me Still or The Shakespeare Curse by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein

The Healer by Antti Tuomainen

Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

Heaven Looks A Lot Like The Mall by Wendy Mass

Hereafter by Tara Hudson

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Hex and the Single Girl by Valerie Frankel

Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland

Hide by Lisa Gardner

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia Marx

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik

Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Holes by Louis Sachar

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Hour of the Rose by Christina Skye

House At Pooh Corner by A.A.Milne

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

How the Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury

Hush by Donna Jo Napoli

I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

I AM THE CHEESE by Robert Cormier

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

I Dare by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman

If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t) by Betty White

Illiad by Homer

Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Interred with Their Bones or The Shakespeare Secret by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

Interworld by Neil Gaiman

The Intimates by Ralph Sassone

Invisible by Pete Hautman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Ireland by Frank Delaney

It by Stephen King

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett

Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett

Jpod by Douglas Coupland

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Keep by Jennifer Egan

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd

Lasher by Anne Rice

Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner

Last Orders by Graham Swift

The Last Policeman by Ben Winters

The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Leap Day by Wendy Mass

The Legacy by John Coyne

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams

Light in Shadow by Jayne Ann Krentz

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Lights Out In Wonderland by DBC Pierre

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Locked in Time by Lois Duncan

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Looking For Alaska by John Green

Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xi

Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice

The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson

The Lost Get-Back Boogie by James Lee Burke

Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez 

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill

Lustrum by Robert Harris

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Magicians by Lev Grossman

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Major Babara by George Bernard Shaw

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Matched by Ally Condie

The Matrix by Jonathan Aycliffe

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Maze Runner by James Dashner

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) by Franz Kafka

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Millstone by Margaret Drabble

The Miocene Arrow by Sean McMullen

Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer 

A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor

Mister God This Is Anna by Fynn

Mister Monday by Garth Nix

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

More About Paddington by Michael Bond

Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

My Foolish Heart by Susan May Warren

My Life As A Ten-Year-Old Boy! by Nancy Cartwright

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Native Son by Richard Wright

Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Neuromancer by William Gibson

New Confession by William Boyd

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Night Magic by Tom Tryon

Night Rise by Anthony Horowitz

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

Odyssey by Homer

Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Romantic by Louise Dean

Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

On the Jellicoe Road by Marchetta

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Only Human by Gareth Roberts

Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett

Oracle Betrayed by Catherine Fisher

Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

The Orphaned Anythings by Stephen Christian

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth

Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre

Paper Towns by John Green

Partials by Dan Wells

Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card

Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Peace Like A River by Leif Enger

Peony in Love by Lisa See

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Perfect Cut by Julie Burtinshaw

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer  by Patrick Süskind

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pillars of the Earth by Kent Follett

Pink Smog by Francesca Lia Block

The Place Where Nobody Stopped by Jerry Segal

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich

Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Prestige by Christopher Priest

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Princess Bride by William Goldman

Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block

Punishment by Abdelfettah Kilitou

Queen of the Sun by E.J. Michael

Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp 

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Reached by Ally Condie

Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Red Queen by Philippa Gregory

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Republic by Plato

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

The Resurrectionist by Thomas Monteleone

Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 

The Rise of the Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt

River of Hidden Dreams by Connie May Fowler

River of the Brokenhearted by David Richard Adams

Road by Cormac McCarthy

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Rose Madder by Stephen King

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

Runa by J. Alison James

The Russian Affair by Michael Wallner

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark

Sandman (Preludes & Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret Ingredient by Jane Heller

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret of Shambhala by James Redfield

Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor

Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates

Shades Of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Shanshakè by Fayçal Lahrouchi

Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Sideshow by Anne LeClaire

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Silk and Stone by Deborah Smith

Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Sixty-Nine by Ryu Murakami

The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman

Skywriting By Word Of Mouth: Two Virgins by John Lennon

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

Smitten by Janet Evanovich

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Song of the Lioness I: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Song of the Lioness II: In the Hand of the Goddess by tamora Pierce

Song of the Lioness III: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce

Song of the Lioness IV: Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Sorceress by Celia Rees

Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goeth

Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen

Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Source of Magic by Piers Anthony

Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszca

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre

Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Steel Beach by John Varley

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Stranger (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus

Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox

Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

Tea With an Artist by Jean Rhys

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith 

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John leCarre

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Torchwood: Trace Memory by David Llewellyn

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Triad: A Novel of the Supernatural by May Leader

Trial by Franz Kafka

Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce

Trinity by Leon Uris

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

True to Form by Elizabeth Berg

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Ulysses by james Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien

Up In The Air by Walter Kirn

Uther by Jack Whyte

The Vanishment by Jonathan Aycliffe

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins

Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block

Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory

A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley

Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

War with the Newts by Karel Čapek

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Wave by Walter Mosley

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire

Wheel of Time: Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt

When You Were Mine by Elizabeth Noble

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

White Noise by Don DeLillo

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman

Wicked Day by Mary Stewart

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses

Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block

Witch Child by Celia Rees

Witch Dreams by Vivian Vande Velde

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind 

Wooden Heart by Martin Day

Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

World War Z by Max Brooks

Wraeththu by Storm Constantine

Wrong Boy by Willy Russell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

Zero Regrets by Apolo Ohno