1. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Happy families are always similar, while unhappy families have their own misfortunes.
2. Dickens's Tale of Two Cities:
It was the best of times, it was the worst times; it was the years of wisdom, it was the years of ignorance; it was the days of faith, it was the days of doubt; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of disappointment; our future had everything, our future had nothing; we were going to heaven, and we were going to hell.
3. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
It has become a universally recognized truth that all rich bachelors always want to marry a wife.
4. George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
In April, the weather was cold and sunny, and the bell rang thirteen times.
5. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Hood
It was a weird, sweltering summer, the summer Rosenberg was executed on espionage charges, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
6. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
If you haven't read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you don't know who I am, but that's okay. The author of the book is a man named Mark Twain, who mostly tells the truth.
7. J.D. Salinger: "The Catcher in the Rye"
If you really want to hear me, the first thing you want to know might be where I was born, how I spent my bumpy childhood, what my parents did before they gave birth to me, and so on, but I honestly tell you, I have no intention of telling you all this.
8. Jane Reese: "The Boundless Sea of Algae"
They say that when trouble ensues, white people do the same.
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
When I was young and young, my father taught me something that I will always remember. Whenever you want to criticize someone, he says to me, remember that not everyone in this world has enjoyed the advantages you have.
10. L.P. Hartley: "A Love Affair"
The past is like a foreign land: they do different things there.
11 Joseph Heller: Catch-22
It was a real love at first sight. At the first meeting, Joséren fell in love with the military priest fanatically.
12 Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desires. My sin, my soul. Lo-Li-Ta: The tip of the tongue goes up, in three steps, from the upper jaw down to the teeth. Lo ~ Leigh ~ Tower.
13. Ken Kessey: "Flying Over the Madhouse":
They're outside. The black boys in white uniforms got up earlier than I did, and they openly flirted in the hall, and then cleaned it up before I could catch them.
14 Albert Camus: The Outsider
Today, Mom is dead. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know.
15 Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
He was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and had been gone for eighty-four days, and not a single fish had been caught.
16. Kurt Vonnegut: The Fifth Slaughterhouse
Everything in the story, more or less, happened.