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Books with intriguing opening sentences 📖
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items A list of books that have an attention-grabbing first sentence!
I always love when I open a book and the first line just pulls you right in and makes you want to immediately dive into the story.
“I shove my earplugs in as far as they’ll go to drown out the sounds of her cries.”
A thriller about kidnapped teenage girls
Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry, Paperback
“Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.”
A thriller about a psychotherapist who starts working with Alicia Berenson, who was sent to a psychiatric facility after murdering her husband and then refusing to say another...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, Paperback
“I remember being pestered by a sense of dread as I walked to my car that day, pressed down by a wave of foreboding that swirled around my head and broke against the evening in small ripples.”
A story about a college student, Joe Talbert, who has an...
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, Paperback
“Her eyelashes are often wet when she wakes, as if she’s been swimming in a sea of sad dreams.”
A story about Leo, an obituary writer, who copes with his wife’s illness by researching all the details of her life for his own written piece. Along the ...
The Love of My Life (GMA Book Club Pick) by Rosie Walsh, Paperback
“Mandy stared at the photograph on her computer screen and held her breath.”
A thriller and science fiction book about finding the one using a company that pairs matches based on a DNA test. The perfect match based on a gene that pairs people with t...
The One: A Suspenseful Sci-Fi Thriller about the Pitfalls in Finding Your ...
“They found the bodies on a Tuesday.”
A thriller about a student named Matt Pine returning to his dorm and being given the news that his parents, little brother, and little sister were all found dead. Local cops say it was due to an accidental gas ...
Every Last Fear - Alex Finlay
“With slowly growing horror she stared at the letter, at the one black sentence that peered up at her from the smudged paper… ‘I know what you did last summer’”
A suspense novel about four teens involved in the accidental death of a young boy, and a...
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan-Arquette, Paperback
“Noelle had tried to keep track of the days, but they were indistinguishable from the nights, both bathed in still silence and utter blackness.”
A thriller about two teenagers that are abducted together. They return to the scene of the crime years ...
All the Little Raindrops: A Novel by Mia Sheridan, Paperback