#FIRSTPARAS – A-Z

A

Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

Austen, Jane PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

B

Ballard, JG HIGH-RISE

Ballard, JG SUPER-CANNES

Barker, Pat THE GHOST ROAD #1REGENERATIONTRILOGY

Barnes, Julian THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

Barrie, JM PETER PAN

Birch, Carol JAMRACH’S MENAGERIE

Boyd, William A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA

Boyne, John THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES

Brontë, Anne AGNES GREY

C

Capote, Truman IN COLD BLOOD

Carey, Peter ILLYWHACKER

Carey, Peter JACK MAGGS

Carr, JL A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

Child, Lee PERSONAL

Conrad, Joseph LORD JIM

Conrad, Joseph THE SECRET AGENT

D

Desai, Kiran THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS

Dickens, Charles A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Dickens, Charles DAVID COPPERFIELD

Du Maurier, Daphne REBECCA

Dunant, Sarah SACRED HEARTS

E

Easton Ellis, Bret AMERICAN PYSCHO

Eugenides, Jeffrey THE MARRIAGE PLOT

F

Fielding, Helen BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY

Fitzgerald, F Scott THE GREAT GATSBY

Fitzgerald, F Scott THE LAST TYCOON

Fleming, Ian GOLDFINGER

Forster, EM A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Forster, Margaret DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN

Fowles, John THE COLLECTOR

Franzen, Jonathan FREEDOM

Frayn, Michael SPIES

G

Gaarder, Jostein SOPHIE’S WORLD

Gaynor, Hazel THE LAST LIFEBOAT

Golding, William LORD OF THE FLIES

Greene, Graham BRIGHTON ROCK

Gregory, Philippa THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

Grisham, John THE LAST JUROR

Grisham, John THE PELICAN BRIEF

Grisham, John THE RAINMAKER

H

Haddon, Mark THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Hamilton, Patrick THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE

Harris, Robert THE GHOST

Hartley, LP THE GO-BETWEEN

Heller, Joseph CATCH-22

Heller, Zoe NOTES ON A SCANDAL

Hemingway, Ernest A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Hemingway, Ernest TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

Hiaasen, Carl LUCKY YOU

J

James, PD THE MURDER ROOM

Joyce, Rachel MISS BENSON’S BEETLE

Joyce, Rachel THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY

K

Kunzru, Hari THE IMPRESSIONIST

L

Lessing, Doris MARA AND DANN

Lively, Penelope FAMILY ALBUM

Lively, Penelope MOON TIGER

M

Manning, Olivia THE GREAT FORTUNE #1BALKANTRILOGY

Mantel, Hilary A CHANGE OF CLIMATE

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

Maxwell, William THE CHATEAU

Maxwell, William TIME WILL DARKEN IT

McCarthy, Cormac THE ROAD

McCullers, Carson THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER

McEwan, Ian ENDURING LOVE

McEwan, Ian THE CEMENT GARDEN

McGahern, John THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN

Mistry, Rohinton SUCH A LONG JOURNEY

Morrall, Clare ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR

Morrison, Toni BELOVED

Murakami, Haruki DANCE DANCE DANCE

Murakami, Haruki HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD

Murakami, Haruki NORWEGIAN WOOD

Murakami, Haruki THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

Murdoch, Iris A SEVERED HEAD

Murdoch, Iris THE PHILOSOPHER’S PUPIL

Murdoch, Iris THE SEA, THE SEA

N

Nabokov, Vladimir LOLITA

Newman, Andrew A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE

O

Oates, Joyce Carol I’LL TAKE YOU THERE

O’Farrell, Maggie AFTER YOU’D GONE

Ondaatje, Michael DIVISADERO

Ondaatje, Michael THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Orwell, George 1984

Orwell, George ANIMAL FARM

P

Patchett, Ann BEL CANTO

Picoult, Jodi NINETEEN MINUTES

Picoult, Jodi VANISHING ACTS

Plath, Sylvia THE BELL JAR

Portis, Charles TRUE GRIT

Pynchon, Thomas THE CRYING OF LOT 49

R

Reid Banks, Lynn THE L-SHAPED ROOM

Roberts, Michèle FAIR EXCHANGE

Robinson, Marilynne GILEAD

Rowling, JK HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE #1HARRYPOTTER

Rushdie, Salman MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

S

Salinger, JD THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Smith, Dodie I CAPTURE THE CASTLE

Spotswood, Stephen FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD #1PENTECOST&PARKER

T

Tan, Twan Eng THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS

Taylor, Andrew THE ASHES OF LONDON #1FIREOFLONDON

Townsend, Sue QUEEN CAMILLA

Trevor, William DEATH IN SUMMER

Trevor, William READING TURGENEV

Twain, Mark THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Tyler, Anne BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN-UPS

Tyler, Anne DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT

U

Updike, John COUPLES

V

Vonnegut Jr, Kurt SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5

W

Waters, Sarah AFFINITY

Watson, SJ BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP