Educated guesses, confirmed by Google.
Oh, Martha, how I was moved by this book. “I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943” opens Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man. I could never forget that one, in my opinion the best one about life in death camps. I’ve seen, though, that the title of the book in its English translation has been changed to Survival in Auschwitz.
I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943- Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi.
“‘Barrabas came to us by sea,’ the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”
(I see on preview I’ve been beaten. Didn’t know that the title had been changed)
Hum, RedRoses, I might stand slightly corrected. It may be, in fact, that If This Is a Man was and is the title for the UK edition, and Survival in Auschwitz for the US. Maybe one of our British Doper friends could corroborate that.
Wikipedia confirms it.
“September in Pine Cove is a sigh of relief, a nightcap, a long-deserved nap”
– The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cover, Christopher Moore.
“Cigars have burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they have believed they had.”
Yes, my UK edition is called “If this is a Man”.
Lost Horizon, James Hilton.
I’m going to guess Middlemarch on this one, though I may be wrong.
Yes ! You’re right. Congratulations !
HAVE BEEN SOLVED:
“Imagine a ruin…”: - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver.
“We were on our way…”: Drown, by Junot Díaz.
“I was captured by the Fascist Militia…”: If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi.
“September in Pine Cove…”: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, by Christopher Moore.
“Cigars have burned low…”: Lost Horizon, by James Hilton.
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty…”: Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
HAVE NOT BEEN SOLVED:
“AUTHOR: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, came to power in 1740.”
“‘Barrabas came to us by sea,’ the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”
“The weather beaten trail wound ahead into the dust racked climes of the baren land which dominates large portions of the Norgolian empire.”
“There were angels in the glass, two four six many of them, each one shuffling into his place in line like an alderman at the Lord Mayor’s show.”
“When the reserve tank ran dry too, and the engine choked and died, I guessed I was ten or fifteen miles from Gaya.”
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
“One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot.”
“The Empire, having long been divided, must unite; having long been united, must divide.”
“There’s a light on in the attic.”
“Death came for him by mistake.”
“The first facet was purpose.”
“She scowled at her orange juice.”
Three Kingdoms: Chinese Classics
“One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot.”
This one, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy, was solved by j666 and Martha.
New opening line: “They shoot the white girl first.”
Then my life is complete. 
And here’s my submission…
“What’s it going to be then?”
Correct.
Okay, I’m trying to do this without actually looking it up. Is the above The Mayor of Casterbridge?
Oh shoot, I was beaten to it. Darn, one of the few I thought I knew.
“‘Barrabas came to us by sea,’ the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.” - House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.
Try this one:
“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.”
You forgot the “eh.” A Clockwork Orange.
“It had all been arranged by telegram; Jeremy Pordage was to look out for a coloured chauffeur in a grey uniform with a carnation in the button-hole; and the coloured chauffeur was to look out for a middle-aged Englishman carrying the Poetical Works of Wordsworth.”
My favorite:
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Here’s mine:
“The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for, and public curiosity is sure to welcome.”