The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf.

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.

Mort

Terry Pratchett

This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past.

The Opposing Shore

Julien Gracq

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

The day broke grey and dull.

Go in beauty

William Eastlake

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.