Quiz: Guess the Book From Its Opening Line

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About This Quiz

Some books come out hot right out of the gate with iconic openers. How many of these literary works can you correctly guess based only on the opening line?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

"A Tale of Two Cities"

"Gone With the Wind"

"Anna Karenina"

"Call me Ishmael."

"The Old Man and the Sea"

"Moby-Dick"

"Treasure Island"

"You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

"You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down"

"Their Eyes Were Watching God"

"The Color Purple"

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"A Clockwork Orange"

"1984"

"The Bell Jar"

"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."

"The Great Gatsby"

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

"The Catcher in the Rye"

"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.â€

"A Farewell to Arms"

"The Sun Also Rises"

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"