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Every week, The New York Times on the Web brings you a new selection of first chapters from books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review or that appear on The New York Times bestseller lists.

Browse our archived selection of fiction first chapters, arranged alphabetically by author.
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Abbott, Lee K: Wet Places at Noon

Ackroyd, Peter: The Plato Papers: A Prophecy

Adams, Alice: After the War

Adams, Alice: The Last Lovely City: Stories

Agee, Jonis: The Weight of Dreams

Agnon, S. Y.: Only Yesterday

Airth, Rennie: River of Darkness

Aksyonov, Vassily: The New Sweet Style

Alberto, Eliseo: Caracol Beach

Alcorn, Alfred: Murder in the Museum of Man

Alexie, Sherman: The Toughest Indian in the World

Allen, Dwight: The Green Suit

Allen, Jeffery Renard: Rails Under My Back

Allison, Dorothy: Cavedweller

Allison, Karen Hubert: How I Gave My Heart to the Restaurant Business

Alvarez, Julia: In the Name of Salomé

Amidon, Stephen: The New City

Amis, Martin: Heavy Water: And Other Stories

Amis, Martin: Night Train

Anastas, Benjamin: The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

Andahazi, Federico: The Anatomist

Andersen, Kurt: Turn of the Century

Ansay, A. Manette: River Angel

Antrim, Donald: The Hundred Brothers

Antrim, Donald: The Verificationist

Antunes, António Lobo: The Return of the Caravels

Appelfeld, Aharon: The Iron Tracks

Archer, Jeffrey: The Eleventh Commandment

Arenas, Reinaldo: The Color of Summer: Or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights

Arensberg, Ann: Incubus

Arnott, Jake: He Kills Coppers

Askew, Rilla: Fire in Beulah

Atkinson, Kate: Human Croquet

Atkinson, Kate: Emotionally Weird

Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin

Auster, Paul: Timbuktu

Azadeh, Carol: The Marriage at Antibes

Azzopardi, Trezza: The Hiding Place

Browse our archived selection of fiction first chapters, arranged alphabetically by author.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X-Z | Poetry

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