A Year of Reading: Best First Lines of 2015

I’ve said before that first sentences are like a book’s doorknob . Turn. Push. Enter. Here are the best opening lines from books published in 2015 which beckoned us inside their pages.



When I was born, the doctor said, “I’m sorry.”
Above Us Only Sky
by Michele Young-Stone



The happiest moment of my father’s life was finding his name on President Richard M. Nixon’s enemies list.
Excommunicados
by Charles Haverty



They found him inside one of seventeen cauldrons in the courtyard, steeping in an indig...