While you can't judge a book by its cover, you can judge a book by the first sentence.
From Shelley Pearsall’s The Seventh Most Important Thing
From Hollis Gillespie's Unaccompanied Minor
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Rise of Nine
From Gina Damico's Waste of Space
From Jenny Goebel’s Fortune Falls
From Chip Gaines' Capital Gaines
From John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls
From Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman's The Pros of Cons
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Scorpia Rising
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
From Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears
From Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
From Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
First Sentence of a New World 