| Opening Words | Book Title | Initial |
| Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank | |
| I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week | |
| It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain | |
| Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember | |
| The Salinas Valley is in Northern California | |
| It was a pleasure to burn | |
| Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it | |
| The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House' | |
| I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus | |
| The great fish moved silently through the night water | |
| I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning | |
| The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock | |
| Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely | |
| It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen | |
| Many years later, as he faced the firing squad | |
| Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire | |
| After dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room | |
| Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole | |
| All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true | |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken | |
| Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead | |
| In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf. One Sunday morning the warm sun | |
| 1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord | |
| The geisha called 'Trembling Leaf' on her knees besides James Bond | |
| I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle | |