“The imposter borrowed the name of Neville Manchin, an actual professor of American literature at Portland State and soon-to-be doctoral student at Stanford.”
– Camino Island, by John Grisham
“When I was small, I didn’t even know that I was a kid with special needs.”
‘The reason I jump’ by Naoki Higashida.
This is a truly remarkable book written at age 13 by a boy with ‘non-verbal autism’ (i.e. he can’t speak.)
I have Asperger’s Syndrome (sometimes called ‘high end autism’) and this book moved me greatly.
If you know someone on the autism spectrum, I strongly recommend this.
In Friday, August 7, 1942, eighty-two U.S. Navy ships manned by forty thousand sailors, shepherding a force of sixteen thousand U.S. Marines, reached their destination in a remote southern ocean and spent the next hundred days immersed in a curriculum of cruel and timeless lessons.
Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal – James D. Hornfischer
On a muggy Florida night in March 2007, Pete and I walked out onto the stage at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa.
–Thanks A Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey
“Hercule Poirot smiled to himself as his driver brought the motorcar to a stop with satisfying symmetry.”
The Mystery of Three Quarters, by Sophie Hannah
“The patrol officers had left the front door open.”
– Dark Sacred Night, by Michael Connelly
“Today the end and the gates will swing open to eject me, alone and so-called free.”
Wildcat Falling, by Mudrooroo
For a president who was not a lawyer, Eisenhower had very firm ideas on the qualities he was looking for in a chief justice.
Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties by James F. Simon
“A convenience store is a world of sound.”
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata.
“The time machine was sitting with his feet up on the desk.”
The Enormous Hourglass, by Ron Goulart
Another twofer. From the Introduction: “Around the time that he reached the unnerving milestone of turning thirty, Leonardo da Vinci wrote a letter to the ruler of Milan listing the reasons he should be given a job.”
Then Chapter One proper: “Leonardo da Vinci had the good luck to be born out of wedlock.”
– Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
“Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap;”
The first sentence of this book is about five hundred words long and consists of a mother’s (presumably) instructions and reprimands to her young daughter, plus a few arguments back from the daughter. I have stopped at the first semicolon.
At the Bottom of the River, by Jamaica Kincaid.
Amateur. 
“Messenger birds launched as one flock from the council platform.”
Cloudbound, by Fran Wilde
“Through broken reeds the creature moved.”
Greybeard, by Brian Aldiss
“It’s been a nice summer,” Dria said to Rob Wayne; then she added with a sigh, “But not half as much fun as last year.”
High Hurdles, by Janet Lambert
Kris sat in the basement, hunched over her guitar, trying to play the beginning of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.”
- We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
No no no, in a window probably but never in a basement 
*I haven’t play my guitar in ages8
“I was permitted to record the following but do not doubt that the pertinent Annals will disappear and be read by none forever whilst those of us who lived it forget every instant of love and horror.”
- Prologue, Port of Shadows, Glen Cook 2018
How is that? I have it on my Kindle list, but haven’t actually started yet.