These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. - Summary by Matt Pierard
Sarah Grand - The Winged Victory
Ellen Glasgow - Virginia
L. Frank Baum - Rinkitink in Oz
Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son
Louis Hemon - Maria Chapdelaine
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pt. 2
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Booth Tarkington - Seventeen
George Moore - The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story
H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through
Ring Lardner - You Know Me Al
Henri Barbusse - Under Fire
Baroness Orczy - Leatherface
Rabindranath Tagore - The Home and the World
William Dean Howells - The Leatherwood God
Anne Monroe - Happy Valley; A Story of Oregon
Edith Wharton - Autres Tempes
Isla M. Mullins - Anne's Wedding
Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Beasts of Tarzan
Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger