Identify the author and book title from the following first lines, a point for each correct.
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ID'ed by Lyra
2. Mother died today
The Stranger - Albert Camus ID'ed by The Horse
3. It was a pleasure to burn
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
4. It was the day my grandmother exploded.
The Crow Road - Iain Banks ID'ed by Andy C
5. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice
100 Years of Solitue - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ID'ed by ToastBasedKillah
6. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth
Catcher in the Rye - JD SalingerID'ed by Lyra
7. All this happened, more or less
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
8. It was love at first sight
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ID'ed by Zombie
9. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood ID'ed by Carlo Ginzberg
10. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ID'ed by Lyra
2. Mother died today
The Stranger - Albert Camus ID'ed by The Horse
3. It was a pleasure to burn
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
4. It was the day my grandmother exploded.
The Crow Road - Iain Banks ID'ed by Andy C
5. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice
100 Years of Solitue - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ID'ed by ToastBasedKillah
6. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth
Catcher in the Rye - JD SalingerID'ed by Lyra
7. All this happened, more or less
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
8. It was love at first sight
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ID'ed by Zombie
9. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood ID'ed by Carlo Ginzberg
10. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ID'ed by Ursus Arctos
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