Novels That Begin With A Character Waking Up

[jaredalynch]

Dostoevsky - THE DOUBLE

[Phaedra's Love]

Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky

A very good read.

[Pecksie]

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, with that wonderful description of Stiva opening his eyes on the sofa.

[kiki1982]

Saramago's The Gospel according to Jesus Christ begins with Joseph waking up. (after the prologue, that is.)

[Veva]

I am not really sure about this one, but I suppose that Mrs Dalloway by V.Woolf

[King Mob]

The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

[bazarov]

Oblomov by Goncharov; if my memory serves me well.