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Only A True Bibliophile Will Be Able To Identify These Popular Books From Just Their Opening Lines

Identify These Popular Books From Their Opening Lines

Only A True Bibliophile Will Be Able To Identify 9/10 Of These Popular Books From Just Their Opening Lines

_1984_ by George Orwell.

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


_Pride and Prejudice_ by Jane Austen.

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

_The Blue Umbrella_ by Ruskin Bond.

_The God of Small Things_ by Arundhati Roy.

"May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month."

_Jane Eyre_ by Charlotte Brontë.

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

_The White Tiger_ by Aravind Adiga.

"Mr. Premier, Sir.  
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can only be said in English."  


_To Kill A Mockingbird_ by Harper Lee.

"When he was nearly thirteen my brother, Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

_A Suitable Boy_ by Vikram Seth.

"'You too will marry a boy I choose', said Mrs. Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."  


_Rebecca_ by Daphne Du Maurier.

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

_The Village by The Sea_ by Anita Desai

"When Lila went out on the beach it was so early in the morning that there was no else there."

A man eating pizza and saying "I don't know"

You probably didn't know a lot of the books on this list, and that's okay! At least you got some new ones to add to your TBR.

A girl moving a book that says "hello!" up and down

You did really well! You knew quite a lot of these but a few tripped you up. But, hey! you can probably add those to your TBR!

A person in a pile of books coming out of it saying "I want to read all the books"

Wow!! You're a true bibliophile who has probably read all of these books. Well done!

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Only A True Bibliophile Will Be Able To Identify These Popular Books From Just Their Opening Lines

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