Nick Hornby


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in Redhill, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
April 17, 1957

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Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for An Education (2009), and Brooklyn (2015). ...more

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High Fidelity

3.90 avg rating — 213,470 ratings — published 1995 — 221 editions
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About a Boy

3.80 avg rating — 140,650 ratings — published 1998 — 80 editions
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A Long Way Down

3.44 avg rating — 91,016 ratings — published 2005 — 130 editions
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How to Be Good

3.22 avg rating — 57,701 ratings — published 2001 — 124 editions
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Fever Pitch

3.78 avg rating — 43,478 ratings — published 1992 — 48 editions
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Juliet, Naked

3.50 avg rating — 46,683 ratings — published 2009
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Funny Girl

3.41 avg rating — 32,076 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Slam

3.25 avg rating — 26,940 ratings — published 2007 — 101 editions
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Just Like You

3.36 avg rating — 25,028 ratings — published 2020
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Songbook

3.56 avg rating — 14,205 ratings — published 2002
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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.”
Nick Hornby

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

Polls

Best Fiction

The Help
 
  1124 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  654 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry
 
  321 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
 
  316 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
 
  309 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  292 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
 
  274 votes 4.2%

Fool
 
  232 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
 
  228 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
 
  226 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
  224 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked
 
  206 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone
 
  187 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger
 
  146 votes 2.2%

South of Broad
 
  144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters
 
  141 votes 2.2%

Pygmy
 
  138 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin
 
  134 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  130 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  104 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  96 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  77 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  70 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  69 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 1.0%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  61 votes 0.9%

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