1. "He rode into our valley in the summer of '89. I was a kid then, barely topping the backboard of father's old chuck-wagon." Which famous western novel begins with these words? Shane Valdez Is Coming Hondo Riders Of The Purple Sage

2. This is the first line of which novel? "On a pitch-black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet." A Tale of Two Cities The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Three Musketeers Germinal

3. "It was Wang Lung's marriage day." Which novel is this the first line of? Monkey Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Good Earth White Lotus

4. "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket." Which novel begins with these words? The Witches Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Twits Matilda

5. "I suppose every boy wants to help his country in some way or other." Which book begins this way? Lassie-Come-Home The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys) King Solomon's Mines Scouting for Boys

6. "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years." Which story begins with this line? The Daughters of the Late Colonel Dry September A Good Man is Hard to Find A Rose for Emily

7. "'The Signora had no business to do it,' said Miss Bartlett, 'no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!'" Which novel are these the first lines of? The Hotel New Hampshire A Farewell to Arms A Room With A View Roman Holiday

8. "In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the "Times"." Which novel starts this way? Murder at the Vicarage The Murder of Roger Ackroyd And Then There Were None The Mysterious Affair at Styles

9. Which book begins with the following lines? "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon." Blue Lagoon Lord of the Flies On the Beach Beach Music

10. "There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck." Which story begins this way? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Lottery The Dead The Rocking-Horse Winner

11. Which novel begins with these lines? "The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried." Perelandra The Hound of the Baskervilles The Invisible Man From the Earth to the Moon

12. "Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns." Which novel begins with these words? Possession Moo The Shipping News The Underpainter

13. Which story begins with these lines? "X - This day when it had light mother called me retch. You retch she said." That Only a Mother The Little Black Bag Mimsy Were the Borogroves Born of Man and Woman

14. "A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin." Which novel starts with these words? Little Town on the Prairie Little House on the Prairie The Long Winter On the Banks of Plum Creek

15. "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it." Which novel are these the first lines of? The Maltese Falcon The Big Sleep The Postman Always Rings Twice The Bride Wore Black

16. Which novel begins this way? "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards." A Wizard of Earthsea Wizard at Work So You Want to be a Wizard Wizard's Hall

17. "The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, 'Why don't you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up'." Which novel is this the first line of? The Mask of Dimitrios The Spy Who Came In From The Cold From Russia with Love The Human Factor

18. "'Please sir, is this Plumfield?' asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him." Which novel opens this way? Black Beauty Eight Cousins Beautiful Joe Little Men

19. Which novel opens with these words? "Dr. Strauss says I shud rite down what I think and evrey thing that happins to me from now on." A Clockwork Orange Flowers for Algernon The Gunslinger The Demolished Man

20. "In the hospital of the orphanage - the boys' division at St. Cloud's, Maine - two nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory cicumcision." Which John Irving novel is this? A Widow for One Year The World According to Garp The Cider House Rules A Prayer for Owen Meany

21. "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge." Which novel begins with this line? Diary of a Madman Crime and Punishment War and Peace Battleship Potemkin

22. "Lessa woke, cold." Which novel begins this way? Mistress of Dragons The Mists of Avalon Dragonflight The Golden Compass

23. "It was my privilege to know the late Jack Crabb - frontiersman, Indian scout, gunfighter, buffalo hunter, adopted Cheyenne - in his final days upon this earth." Which novel has this as its first line? Little Big Man The Hawkline Monster Sometimes a Great Notion The Sot-Weed Factor

24. Which novel begins this way? "On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic." Koko Black House The Stand The Talisman

25. Which story begins with these words? "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock..." The Lottery The Open Window That's What Happened to Me The Last Class