First Lines Meme

Below are the first lines to some famous books written in the past 100 odd years. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to name the book. The books quoted below are from a mix of genre's and a mix of easy and hard. Each is relatively well known and not just pulled from the bookshelves that I really have to get around to culling soon.

1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, correctly guessed by maeritrae.

2. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, correctly guessed by nhw

3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - 1984, George Orwell, correctly guessed by rayvanna

4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. - Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, correctly guessed by maeritrae

5. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. - Neuromancer, William Gibson, correctly guessed by nhw

6. All this happened, more or less.

7. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. - Voyage of the Dawn Treader, CS Lewis, correctly guessed by maeritrae

8. It was the day my grandmother exploded. - The Crow Road, Iain M. Banks, correctly guessed by rayvanna

9. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

10. It was love at first sight. - Catch 22, Joseph Heller, correctly guessed by nhw

There ye go. Now, all ye gotta do is guess. Kudos goes to the first correct guesser.