Nick Hornby





Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the ...more


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High Fidelity
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 49,859 ratings — published 1995 — 74 editions
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About a Boy
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 32,915 ratings — published 1998 — 85 editions
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A Long Way Down
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 24,622 ratings — published 2005 — 48 editions
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How to Be Good
3.09 of 5 stars 3.09 avg rating — 20,747 ratings — published 2001 — 42 editions
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Juliet, Naked
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 12,236 ratings — published 2009 — 35 editions
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Fever Pitch
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 8,020 ratings — published 1992 — 36 editions
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Slam
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7,445 ratings — published 2007 — 40 editions
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The Polysyllabic Spree
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 3,659 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
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Songbook
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 4,219 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions
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Speaking With the Angel
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 3,136 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions
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October 2009, Nick Hornby
"I'm frustrated by how much time has slipped by in my own life, and I've wasted more time than most, but I'm not sure I'd feel any better if I'd been more productive. For a start, my first couple of books were a product of all the times I'd wasted at football matches and in record stores." ...More

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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

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