The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

First Line:
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”

Last Line:
“I wish you all a long and happy life” 

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

First Line:
“First the colours”

Last Line:
“I am haunted by humans” 

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

First Line:
“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement  for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn’t seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, “Be My Baby” on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”

Last Line:
” ‘Well, though I know I should have done that instead of not doing it, I’m twenty-seven for Christ sakes and this is, uh, how life presents itself in a bar or in a club in  New York, maybe anywhere, at the end of the century and how people, you know, me, behave, and this is what Patrick means to me, I guess, so, well, yup, uh…’ and this is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh, and above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry’s is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes’ color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.” 

Insomnia - Stephen King

First Line:
“No one - least of all Dr. Litchfield - came right out and told Ralph Roberts that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph understood without needing to be told”

Last Line:
“And, she saw, the long white scar on his right forearm was gone.” 

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

First Line:
“Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.”

Last Line:
“From the shadows, the stranger watched Jack until he was out of sight” 

Forrest Gump - Winston Groom

First Line:
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates”

Last Line:
“You know what I mean?” 

The Long Walk - Richard Bachman/Stephen King

First Line:
“An old blue Ford pulled into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard run”

Last Line:
“And when the hand touched his shoulder again, he somehow found the strength to run” 

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

First Line:
“The monster showed up just after midnight”

Last Line:
“And by doing so, he could finally let her go” 

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

First Line:
“The door to Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s memory palace is in th edarkness at the center of his mind and it has a latch that can be found by touch alone.”

Last Line:
“His window cleared and he could see the stars”

The Shining - Stephen King

First Line:
“Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick” 

Last Line:
“Wendy sat down on Danny’s other side and the three of them sat on the end of the dock in the afternoon sun”