I just want to see if anyone else has read this; I really liked it:
“During the night something like a miracle happened: Jim’s age grew an extra digit.”
Dracula.
In a not unrelated vein (:rimshot:)…
Here’s my contribution…
“Here the sea ends and the earth begins.”
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde - RLS
Here’s my contribution (It’s kind of a tough one)
“Here the sea end and the earths begins.”
The Strange Case of Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde - RLS
1984 is correct.
A clue for one of the others - it runs:
Yes, that does give it away. That’s Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. The answers given earlier to two of mine ( Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day) are correct, by the way.
Correct, Jabba. Any guesses on “It was a diamond, all right.” and “There was a wall.” ?
The first is another detective novel, and the second science fiction/fantasy by an author previously mentioned in this thread.
Regards,
Shodan
Tapioca Dextrin nailed my one.
Wow. A lot of replies. Here’s two more:
"As a citybound journalist, I never had to justify myself by answering the silly question “Why do men climb mountains?”
“Puggy has held down his job at the Jolly Jackal Bar amd Grillm which did not have a grill, for almost three weeks.”
That’s David Barry in his debut novel Big Trouble. Stick to the weekly column Dave.
How about:
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
The Dispossed, UK LeGuin
Maybe I’ll take a break - I need to catch up on my reading. 
Cee-rect!
“The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering.”
“At three-thirty A.M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of Runciter Associates in New York City.”
Ubik by Phillip K Dick.
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother…”
Any more’d give it away. In fact, I probably have given it away. One more:
“I tell a story of war and a hero.”