Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic I never read. It was a fun short book with some great wordplay, but I don't think I'll revisit it on my own.
First sentence: “Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures ...