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Hooked From the First Line

Books that will reel you in with the first line.

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100 items

  • "Margaret shouldn't be outside tonight."
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022.
  • "They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart."
    Book, 2020New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020.
  • "She shouldn't have been tempted."
    Book, 2014New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2014.
  • "The circus arrives without warning."
    Book, 2011New York : Doubleday, c2011.
  • "The hardest part of this job isn't the stealing, it's the escaping."
    Book, 2021New York : Bloomsbury, 2021.
  • "It took seven years to get the letter right."
    Book, 2017New York : Flatiron Books, 2017.
  • "In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television."
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
  • "Lore Alemeyu collected stories like the raven that lived above the apothecary hoarded shiny pebbles."
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • "The bell hanging outside the curiosity shop knew the human was trouble from the way he moved through the door."
    Book, 2021New York : Flatiron Books, 2021.
  • "Looking down at the boy strapped to the metal table before her, Kiva Meridan leaned in close and whispered, 'Take a deep breath.'"
    Book, 2021Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021]
  • "Iris dashed through the rain with a broken high heel and a tattered trench coat."
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023.
  • "Thick, hot liquid runs down my arm."
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2023]
  • "In the heart of Scarlet Gang territory, a burlesque club was the place to be."
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020.
  • "Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache."
    Paperback, 2021New York : Imprint, 2021, ©2015.
  • "It's said that five belladonna berries are all it takes to kill someone."
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
  • "Great Achilles, brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles... How the epithets pile up."
    Book, 2018New York : Doubleday, 2018.
  • "When I was born, the name for what I was didn't exist."
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
  • "She kills her lover on the altar of a foreign goddess."
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, an imprint of Sourcebooks, c2025.
  • "The snow in the mountains was melting, and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
    Paperback, 2004New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2004.
  • "Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.
    Paperback, 1999New York : Pocket Books, c1999.