“Jamie Gray!”
The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
“It was one of those nights when you hope your biggest responsibility will be uncorking a bottle of wine.”
Downton Shabby: One American’s Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family’s English Castle, by Hopwood DePree
“‘You too will marry a boy I choose,’ said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter.”
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth.
The mushroom’s gills were the deep-red color of severed muscle, the almost-violet shade that contrasts so dreadfully with the pale pink of viscera.
What Moves the Dead, Ursula Vernon as T. Kingfisher
“She refused to be triggered by breakfast food, so she went straight for the waffles.”
The Audacity of Sara Grayson, by Joani Elliott
“The tree on which the owl of Minerva sits has many branches.”
The Face of the Third Reich: Portrait of the Nazi Leadership by Joachim E. Fest
“October 1944. Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise and returns to the Philippines.”
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray and Steven Sanders
“The first time it happens it’s October, and I’m driving through Utah with the Filipino guy named Liandro.”
Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon
“The first-quarter rocket from Moonbase put him down at Pied-a-Terre.”
Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein (from the short story “Gulf”)
“It’s been three months since Owen left.”
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
“At mid-afternoon on a dying late summer day, the stunningly beautiful Debra Davis climbed into the snazzy, two-seat Mercedes convertible that her boyfriend had bought for her and drove away from the home they shared in the suburb of Randolph, Massachusetts.”
Whitey – The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss, by Dick Lehr & Gerard O’Neill
I love her books!
As do I! And I’m getting that collector’s edition of Digger from the recent Kickstarter, too. 
“We overlook at our peril the gains to be made from walking, for our health, for our mood, for our clarity of mind.”
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, by Shane O’Mara.
“Grandpa’s thin, reedy voice wasn’t loud, but we couldn’t shut it out, however hard we tried.”
From “And the Band Played On”, the first story in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories, by Peter Lovesey.
“Late on the afternoon of Tuesday the ninth of April in the Year of Our Risen Lord 1468, a solitary traveller was to be observed picking his way on horseback across the wild moorland of that ancient region of southwestern England known since Saxon times as Wessex.”
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
“If you want to stick a proper name on women’s struggle to be accepted as stand-up comedians in American show business, you could call it ‘Moms Mabley.’”
In On the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy, by Shawn Levy
“The first time I met Mas, he was sitting on the quayside in Ballyvoloon, carving a nightmare from a piece of linden.”
Clarkesworld: Year Twelve - Volume One, edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace. (The above sentence is from the first story, "The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon, by Finbarr O’Reilly.)
“I know the name of Turkey’s leading avant-garde publication.”
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A. J. Jacobs
“I am a botanist.”
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
“Marsh is not swamp.”
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
“Jews settled as far north as the Rhineland after the Romans destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.”
– The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, by Ron Chernow
“Curious…are ALL emails confidential?”
Sari, Not Sari by Sonya Singh