Game 3, Round 3 (Literature) -- Famous First Words

We'll give you the first few lines of a work, and you name the work. 
We'll also tell you the genre, and whether it's a translation. 

1. Autobiography. 

"When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded 
Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night." 

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X 

2. Popular science: Zoology/Biology 

"Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out 
the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space 
ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to 
assess the level of our civilization, is: 'Have they discovered evolution yet?'" 

    The Selfish Gene 

3. Play (the character names have been disguised, and the stage directions have been omitted) 

"Char. 1: Heads. (pause) Heads. (pause) Heads. (pause) Heads. (pause) Heads. 
Char. 2: There is an art to the building up of suspense. 
Char.1: Heads. 
Char. 2. Though it can be done by luck alone." 

    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 

4. Novel, in translation. 

"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private 
estates of the Bonaparte family." 

    War and Peace 

5. Novel. 

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, 
or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was 
the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God;" 

    A Prayer for Owen Meany 

6. Current affairs / Business / Marketing. 

"The astronomical growth in the wealth and cultural influence of multi-national 
corporations over the last fifteen years can arguably be traced back to a single, 
seemingly innocuous idea developed by management theorists in the mid-1980s: 
that successful corporations must primarily produce brands, as opposed to products." 

    No Logo 

7. Novel, in translation. 

"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without 
having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." 

    The Trial 

8. Short story. 

"True! -- nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; 
but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my 
senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was my sense 
of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven and in the earth. 
I heard many things in hell." 

    The Tell-Tale Heart 

9. Novel. 

"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith." 

    Stranger in a Strange Land 

10. Sacred literature, in translation. 

"On the field of Truth, on the battle-field of life, what came to pass, Sanjaya, 
when my sons and their warriors faced those of my brother Pandu?" 

    The Bhagavad Gita (accept "The Gita")