Friday's Top Ten

The unofficial top ten first lines of novels:

10. It was a dark and stormy night.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  9. I am an invisible man.
Ralph Ellison

  8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell

  7. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
Charles Dickens

  6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

  5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Vladimir Nabokov

  4.It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

  3. Call me Ishmael.

Herman Melville

  2. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

JK Rowling

And the unofficial #1 first line of a novel:

  1. The sun didn't shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.

Dr. Seuss