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1	High fidelity more books like this by Nick Hornby 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	About a Boy more books like this by Nick Hornby Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Long Way Down more books like this by Nick Hornby A New York Times Bestselling Author In his eagerly-awaited fourth novel, Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Fever pitch more books like this by Nick Hornby This book, chronicled from the perspective of a fanatical ten-year-old soccer fan, through disillusioned adolescence, to an adult "who should know better", examines the absurdities, idiosyncrasies and traumas of everyday life and football. While Chelsea were undoubtedly the football team at the heart of fashionable London in the late 1960s, it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Slam more books like this by Nick Hornby Hornby's first novel for young adults--a wonderfully witty, poignant, "New York Times"-bestselling story about a teenage boy who is unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood--is now available in a trade-sized paperback edition. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $2.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	How to Be Good more books like this by Nick Hornby According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Speaking with the Angel more books like this by Nick Hornby A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's "Talking Heads". And Colin Firth makes his debut as a fiction writer. The result is a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Click more books like this by Linda Sue Park 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 ... see all copies from $3.21! new only from $7.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Songbook more books like this by Nick Hornby In this collection of short essays, Hornby writes about 26 of his favorite songs--or rather, the 26 he liked best while he was writing the book. A companion of sorts to his novel HIGH FIDELITY, which features music-obsessed record store clerks forever making "best of" lists, SONGBOOK examines pop songs, the process by which they become lodged in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| SVS
10	31 Songs more books like this by Nick Hornby Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub's "Your Love is the Place that I Come From" and ends with Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River", encompassing varied singers along the way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism more books like this by Nick Hornby In this latest collection of essays following "Housekeeping vs. the Dirt," critic and author Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.68! \| SVS
12 view cover	My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writing more books like this by Nick Hornby (Editor) An anthology on the experience of being a football fan. Each piece centres on one season in the life of one club. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Nick Hornby Songbook more books like this by Nick Hornby In this collection of short essays, Hornby writes about 26 of his favorite songs--or rather, the 26 he liked best while he was writing the book. A companion of sorts to his novel HIGH FIDELITY, which features music-obsessed record store clerks forever making "best of" lists, SONGBOOK examines pop songs, the process by which they become lodged in ... see all copies from $7.65! new only from $51.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's Been Meaning to Read more books like this by Nick Hornby "Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in "The Believer." 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Da Capo Best Music Writing: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More more books like this by Nick Hornby (Editor), Benjamin Schafer (Editor) The year's best essays and articles on music as selected by Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity. Welcome to the second volume in an exciting annual series that celebrates the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Nick Hornby, creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Covering the gamut ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.73! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Fever pitch : the screenplay more books like this by Nick Hornby Paul Ashworth has two problematic relationships: one with his football team, and one with Sarah, a colleague at the north London comprehensive where he works. Set against the backdrop of the 1988/89 football season, the couple's highs and lows mirror those of Arsenal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $98.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Picador Book of Sportswriting more books like this by Nick Hornby (Editor), Nick Coleman (Editor) This original collection includes pieces from acclaimed writers such as Martin Amis, Colm Toibin, and Roddy Doyle, as well as articles by more traditional sportswriters, such as Matthew Engel, Frank Keating, and Hugh McIlvanney. All have been inspired by the sports they love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Double A-side ; Fever pitch ; High fidelity by Nick Hornby An omnibus edition of the novel HIGH FIDELITY - about a man whose fanatical passion for music causes him almost as much discomfort as his ineffectual, but honest relationships with women - and the autiobiographical FEVER PITCH - about Hornby's abiding love for Arsenal Football Club and childhood in the suburbs of London. see all copies from $1.99!
19 view cover	My Favorite Year: A Collection of Football Writing more books like this by Nick Hornby (Editor) 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: Roddy Doyle, Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack ... see all copies from $9.23! new only from $10.49!
20 view cover	The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, ... see all copies from $7.33! new only from $8.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Triple platinum more books like this by Nick Hornby FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without glossing over its large-scale stupidities and discomforts, he makes terrace life seem not just plausible but sometimes near-heroic in its single minded vehemence, its ... see all copies from $2.34! first editions
22	A Propos D'Un Gamin more books like this by Nick Hornby see all copies from $5.11! new only from $10.49!
23 view cover	Shakespeare Wrote for Money more books like this by Nick Hornby, Vowell Sarah (Introduction by) 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 ... see all copies from $8.68! new only from $8.68! \| SVS
24 view cover	Otherwise pandemonium by Nick Hornby In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. Otherwise Pandemonium features two Nick Hornby stories, both ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $11.94!
25 view cover	Alta Fidelidad more books like this by Nick Hornby "It was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. It also served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl- ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $30.66! \| SVS

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