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Nick Hornby
Born
in Redhill, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
April 17, 1957
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Nick Hornby isn't a Goodreads Author
(yet),
but they
do have a blog,
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BROOKLYN hits cinemas worldwide this week
Brooklyn hits cinemas on both sides of the Atlantic this week, and has been garnering rave reviews and Oscar buzz from critics and audiences alike.
The film is adapted by Nick from Colm Tóibín’s bestselling novel, and starsSaoirseRonan as Ellis Lacey, a young woman who emigrates from her hometown of Enniscorthy in Ireland to New York. After a nervous start she begins to adapt to life
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High Fidelity
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1995
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211 editions
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About a Boy
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1998
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113 editions
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A Long Way Down
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2005
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125 editions
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How to Be Good
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2001
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117 editions
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Juliet, Naked
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2009
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89 editions
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Fever Pitch
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1992
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132 editions
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Funny Girl
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2014
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69 editions
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Slam
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2007
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95 editions
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Just Like You
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2020
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47 editions
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Songbook
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2002
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70 editions
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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.”
― High Fidelity
― 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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“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.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
Polls
June 2016 New School Classic Poll
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages
1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 246 pages
1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages
1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
1982, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 448 pages
1995, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, 334 pages
1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages
1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 424 pages
1988, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, 649 pages
1971, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 569 pages
1957, The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, 200 pages
1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages
1987, Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif, 627 pages
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| The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL WINTER CHALLENGE - 2008/2009 | 2159 | 4158 | Mar 04, 2009 07:03AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SPRING CHALLENGE - 2009 | 6412 | 8997 | Jun 14, 2009 02:57PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Mandy's 50 in 2009 | 34 | 360 | Aug 21, 2009 09:01PM | |
| The Seasonal Read...: By Blood or Marriage (25.2) | 41 | 400 | Aug 24, 2009 02:23PM | |
| The Book Challenge: Meghan's Other 2009 Challenges | 11 | 254 | Oct 31, 2009 09:58AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Jason's 2009 Good (and not so good) Reads | 26 | 579 | Nov 14, 2009 06:03PM |
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