Nick Hornby Books In Order

Novels

  1. High Fidelity (1995)
  2. About a Boy (1998)
  3. How to Be Good (2001)
  4. A Long Way Down (2005)
  5. Click (2007)
  6. Slam (2007)
  7. Juliet, Naked (2009)
  8. Funny Girl (2014)
  9. Just Like You (2019)

Omnibus

  1. Double A-side (1997)
  2. Triple Platinum (1999)

Collections

  1. Big Night Out (2002)
  2. Otherwise Pandemonium (2005)
  3. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005)
  4. Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium (2009)

Plays

  1. An Education: The Screenplay (2009)

Anthologies edited

  1. My Favourite Year (1993)
  2. Speaking with the Angel (2000)

Non fiction series

  1. Nick Hornby’s Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
  2. Housekeeping vs. Dirt (2006)
  3. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008)
  4. More Baths, Less Talking (2012)
  5. Stuff I’ve Been Reading (2013)

Non fiction

  1. Fever Pitch (1992)
  2. 31 songs (2002)
  3. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006)
  4. Pray (2012)
  5. Fan Mail (2013)
  6. Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues (2013)
  7. Ten Years in the Tub (2013)
  8. State of the Union (2019)

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Nick Hornby Books Overview

High Fidelity

Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs even now that he’s been dumped again, the top five break ups. Memorable, sad and very, very funny, this is the truest book you will ever read about the things that really matter.

About a Boy

Nick Hornby’s cult fiction debut, the New York Times Notable High Fidelity, was a national bestseller in the United States, and a 1 bestseller in England. Hornby was greeted with standing ovations from The New Yorker Hornby has established himself as a maestro of the male confessional to Time Hornby demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing to The New York Times Book Review Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you’ll find yourself nodding and smiling to GQ funny, compulsive, and contemporary. About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn’t really want any children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. Then Will meets Angie. He has never been out with a mom before. And it has to be said that Angie’s long blond hair and big blue eyes, are not irrelevant to his sudden reas*sessment of his attitude toward children. She is truly beautiful. And truly beautiful women do not, traditionally, go out with him. Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children. Maybe children democratized beautiful, single women

How to Be Good

‘Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once.’ The New York Times Book Review How to Be Good is a story for our times a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom The New Yorker named ‘the maestro of the male confessional,’ has reinvented himself as Katie the consummate liberal, urban mom a doctor from North London whose world is being turned on its ear by the outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David. How to Be Good has the ironic, funny, startlingly accurate take on our modern selves and our modern world that has become Hornby’s turf as a chronicler of our popular culture but this time he tackles it all with more richness and depth, and carries his readers beyond the comic confines of the novel to a bigger truth about themselves. It’s a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion…
and How to Be Good.

A Long Way Down

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper’s House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. In four distinct and riveting first person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life. What’s your jumping off point? Maureen Why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you’re told that you’ll be going to this marvelous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it’s a kind of queue jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the post office, people tut. Or sometimes they say ‘Excuse me, I was here first.’ They don’t say ‘You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.’ That would be a bit strong. Martin I’d spent the previous couple of months looking up suicides on the Internet, just out of curiosity. And nearly every single time, the coroner says the same thing: ‘He took his own life while the balance of his mind was disturbed.’ And then you read the story about the poor bast*ard: His wife was sleeping with his best friend, he’d lost his job, his daughter had been killed in a road accident some months before…
Hello, Mr. Coroner? I’m sorry, but there’s no disturbed mental balance here, my friend. I’d say he got it just right. Jess I was at a party downstairs. It was a sh*it party, full of all these ancient crusties sitting on the floor drinking cider and smoking huge spliffs and listening to weirdo space out reggae. At midnight, one of them clapped sarcastically, and a couple of others laughed, and that was it Happy New Year to you, too. You could have turned up to that party as the happiest person in London, and you’d still have wanted to jump off the roof by five past twelve. And I wasn’t the happiest person in London anyway. Obviously. JJ New Year’s Eve was a night for sentimental losers. It was my own stupid fault. Of course there’d be a low rent crowd up there. I should have picked a classier date like March 28, when Virginia Woolf took her walk into the river, or November 25 Nick Drake. If anybody had been on the roof on either of those nights, the chances are they would have been like minded souls, rather than hopeless f ck ups who had somehow persuaded themselves that the end of a calendar year is in any way significant.

Click

A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a fairy tale. A boy who loses everything in World War II, and his brother who loses even more. And a family with a secret so big that it changes everything.

The world’s best beloved authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George ‘Gee’ Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling portrait emerges of a man, his family, and his gloriously complicated tangle of a life.

The full list of authors includes:

Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize winning author of A STAR CALLED HENRY; Nick Hornby, author of ABOUT A BOY; Ruth Ozeki, author of MY YEAR OF MEATS; Margo Lanagan, Prinz Honor Award winning author of BLACK JUICE; Linda Sue Park, Newbery Award winning author of A SINGLE SHARD; David Almond, winner of the Whitbread Award and Carnegie Medal and author of SKELLIG; Gregory Maguire, author of WICKED; Tim Wynne Jones, two time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s award and author of ONE OF THE KINDER PLANETS; Deborah Ellis, author of THE BREADWINNER; Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl Books.

And more are signing on!

Slam

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. Tucker’s been languishing and he’s unnervingly aware of it, living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped down version of his greatest album, Juliet entitled, Juliet, Naked. What happens when a washed up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise.

Juliet, Naked

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. Tucker’s been languishing and he’s unnervingly aware of it, living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped down version of his greatest album, Juliet entitled, Juliet, Naked. What happens when a washed up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise.

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .

Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, A Book of Noisy Outlaws, Evil Marauders, and Some Other Things…
features some of today’s best authors spinning new tales ranging from the spooky to the strange. George Saunders tells the story of a father who takes caution to dangerous extremes in ‘Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband.’ In ‘ACES by Phone,’ a small boy finds a cell phone that lets him listen in on the thoughts of dogs, and in ‘Small Country,’ Nick Hornby introduces a country too small for a postal system but, unfortunately for one bookish boy, just big enough for a football team. Each story features full color illustrations by artists including Barry Blitt, Lane Smith, David Heatley, and Marcel Dzama. The collection includes previously unpublished children’s stories from Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated, Nick Hornby High Fidelity, Neil Gaiman Sandman, George Saunders CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Kelly Link Stranger Than Fiction, and Jon Scieskza Stinky Cheese Man. The dust jacket folds into a unique aerogram, which factors into a special contest involving a story written partly by Lemony Snicket, partly by thousands of children.

An Education: The Screenplay

From the New York Times bestselling author the shooting script to his award winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16 year old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can’t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening or her undoing. This edition of Hornby’s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must have for fans of Hornby’s novels, featuring his signature pitch perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing

My Favourite Year

Roddy Doyle’s account of the Republic of Ireland’s triumphant journey through Italia ’90 is just one of the many first class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors include Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack, Don Watson, and Giles Smith.

Speaking with the Angel

Speaking with the Angel:12 completely new stories, narrated by 12 completely fabulous characters, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star studded group of writers to create this one of a kind collection of first person narratives. From the imaginations of Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank, and others, including Nick Hornby himself, have sprung eleven enthralling, unforgettable talking heads. Clever, outragious, witty, edgy, tender, wicked…
. This is what is meant by ‘original.’

Nick Hornby’s Polysyllabic Spree

‘Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else,’ writes Nick Hornby in his ‘Stuff I’ve Been Reading’ column in The Believer. ‘If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Supper v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on point And every now and again you’d get a shock, because that happens in sport, so Back to the Future III might land a lucky punch on Rabbit, Run; but I’m still backing literature 29 times out of 30.’ This book collects Hornby’s popular columns in a single, artfully illustrated volume with selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics under discussion.

Housekeeping vs. Dirt

In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he’s been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow, Hornby’s dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.

Shakespeare Wrote for Money

With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from The Believer magazine. Hornby’s monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people’s lives. Hornby is a voracious and unapologetic reader, and his notes on books highbrow and otherwise are always accessible and hilarious.

Fever Pitch

McSweeney’s is excited to release Songbook 226 a brand new collection of short, personal essays by Nick Hornby on 31 of his favorite songs and songwriters. This hardcover book has 4 color illustrations by Marcel Dzama throughout and comes complete with a CD featuring 11 songs discussed within. Proceeds from Songbook will benefit TreeHouse and 826 Valencia. The TreeHouse Trust is a U.K. charity based in central London, established in 1997 to provide an educational Centre of Excellence for children with autism and related communication disorders. 826 Valencia is a nonprofit learning center in the Mission District of San Francisco, providing free writing based tutoring and workshops for students throughout the Bay Area. Students can drop in for individual one on one tutoring, register for workshops, or attend field trips through local schools and community organizations.

31 songs

McSweeney’s is excited to release Songbook 226 a brand new collection of short, personal essays by Nick Hornby on 31 of his favorite songs and songwriters. This hardcover book has 4 color illustrations by Marcel Dzama throughout and comes complete with a CD featuring 11 songs discussed within. Proceeds from Songbook will benefit TreeHouse and 826 Valencia. The TreeHouse Trust is a U.K. charity based in central London, established in 1997 to provide an educational Centre of Excellence for children with autism and related communication disorders. 826 Valencia is a nonprofit learning center in the Mission District of San Francisco, providing free writing based tutoring and workshops for students throughout the Bay Area. Students can drop in for individual one on one tutoring, register for workshops, or attend field trips through local schools and community organizations.

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