1. We'll start with an easy one. Just choose the novel this first line is from. "Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him." Psycho Cujo Bloodwork Coma

2. "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." Tess of the D'Urbervilles Little Dorrit Northanger Abbey The Mill on the Floss

3. "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one." Riders of the Purple Sage Of Mice and Men Lonesome Dove For Whom the Bell Tolls

4. "If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads." Peter Pan Mary Poppins 101 Dalmations Bedknobs and Broomsticks

5. "I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over to me." The Great Gatsby The Thin Man My Gun is Quick The Good Earth

6. "My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old." David Copperfield Fifth Business Death on the Nile Mrs Dalloway

7. "By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953." The Shining The Dead Zone Christine The Stand

8. "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum." The Bush Baby King Solomon's Mines Kim Lord Jim

9. "'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory." Lucky Jim Rabbit, Run A Summer Bird-Cage The Third Man

10. "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely." Oliver Twist The Wouldbegoods Tom Sawyer Through the Looking Glass

11. "Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn." Hawaii On the Beach Trustee from the Toolroom Exodus

12. "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money." The Open Boat Tarzan of the Apes Tom Jones The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

13. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes." The Time Machine 1984 Animal Farm Brave New World

14. "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." We Have Always Lived in the Castle Fatu-Hiva The Haunting of Hill House The Mysterious Affair at Styles

15. "I first met him in Piraeus." A Handfull of Dust A Farewell to Arms Zorba the Greek Heart of Darkness

16. "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off." Condominium To Kill a Mockingbird Striptease Get Shorty

17. "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral." The Human Comedy Brideshead Revisited Carry on, Jeeves Travels with my Aunt

18. "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul." The Steps of the Sun Wheelworld Dune The Mote in God's Eye

19. "For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence." The Blackboard Jungle The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys On the Road The Chosen

20. "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about." A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Of Mice and Men Life on the Mississippi Ivanhoe

21. "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy." The Giggler Treatment Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

22. "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Howard's End The Divine Comedy To Have and Have Not Pride and Prejudice

23. "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen." Matilda Stranger in a Strange Land Hatchet The Golden Compass

24. "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg - and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867." The Magus The French Lieutenant's Woman The Collector A Maggot

25. "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith." Time Enough for Love I Will Fear No Evil The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Stranger in a Strange Land