100 Greatest Opening Lines Ever

For novels that is, according to the American Book Review. This has quite a mix of very literary works and some that are not so literary. My personal favorites (as you can see, I tend toward the simple):

  • Moby Dick (#1)
  • Gravity’s Rainbow (#3)
  • Invisible Man (#10)
  • Neuromancer (#30)
  • Galatea 2.2 (#35)

And yes, it even includes “It was a dark and stormy night” (#22). What are your favorites?

NP: “Of a Life” – Echo & the Bunnymen