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(b.Nick Hornby was born in 1957. His father, Sir Derek Hornby, was a successful businessman. Hornby junior went to Maidenhead Grammar School then studied English at Cambridge. After teaching in Cambridge, he worked for the Korean electronics giant Samsung as a meeter and greeter for their executives in the UK.
After that, he worked as a teacher then as a freelance journalist and then became a novelist. His career really took off with the phenomenally successful Fever Pitch in 1992 and he hasn't looked back since. How to be Good made the 2001 Booker long-list.
After that, he worked as a teacher then as a freelance journalist and then became a novelist. His career really took off with the phenomenally successful Fever Pitch in 1992 and he hasn't looked back since. How to be Good made the 2001 Booker long-list.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
High Fidelity (1995)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Click (2007) (with David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones)
Slam (2007)
Juliet, Naked (2009)
Funny Girl (2014)
Just Like You (2019)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Click (2007) (with David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones)
Slam (2007)
Juliet, Naked (2009)
Funny Girl (2014)
Just Like You (2019)
Omnibus
Collections
Big Night Out (2002) (with Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Candace Bushnell, Joan Collins, Nick Earls, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Marian Keyes, Karen Moline and Patrick Neate)
Otherwise Pandemonium (2005)
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005) (with Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman and Jon Scieszka)
Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium (2009)
Otherwise Pandemonium (2005)
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . . (2005) (with Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman and Jon Scieszka)
Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium (2009)
Plays
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction series
Stuff I've Been Reading
1. Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
2. Housekeeping vs. Dirt (2006)
3. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008)
4. More Baths, Less Talking (2012)
Stuff I've Been Reading (2013)
1. Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
2. Housekeeping vs. Dirt (2006)
3. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008)
4. More Baths, Less Talking (2012)
Stuff I've Been Reading (2013)
Non fiction
Fever Pitch (1992)
31 songs (2002)
aka Songbook
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006)
Pray (2012)
Fan Mail (2013)
Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues (2013)
Ten Years in the Tub (2013)
State of the Union (2019)
Dickens and Prince (2022)
31 songs (2002)
aka Songbook
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006)
Pray (2012)
Fan Mail (2013)
Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues (2013)
Ten Years in the Tub (2013)
State of the Union (2019)
Dickens and Prince (2022)
Awards
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Nick Hornby recommends
The Beach (1996)
Alex Garland
"THE BEACH is fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever - a LORD OF THE FLIES for the Generation X. It has all the makings of a cult classic."
Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)
(Bridget Jones, book 1)
Helen Fielding
"Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic genius."
The Speed Queen (1997)
Stewart O'Nan
"A terrific novel, gripping, quirky, funny, violent and heartbreaking. I haven't read a better book so far this year."
Preston Falls (1998)
David Gates
"Preston Falls is dark and funny, bleak and brilliant...In other words, David Gates makes me sick with envy."
The Speckled People (2000)
Hugo Hamilton
"A wonderful book... thoughtful and compelling, smart and original, beautifully written."
Feed (2002)
M T Anderson
"Another book that can be added to the list entitled 'YA Novels I'd Never Heard of But Which Turn Out to Be Modern Classics' and Feed may well be the best of the lot... Funny, serious, sad, superbly realized."
Havoc (2004)
Ronan Bennett
"With Greene gone, and Richard Ford last spotted in suburbia, we need writers like Ronan Bennett."
We're in Trouble (2005)
Christopher Coake
"Sometimes, when you're reading these stories, you forget to breathe."
Then We Came to the End (2007)
Joshua Ferris
"Terrific . . . The rhythms and substance of a working day slowly revealed to have the rhythms and substance of life itself."
Sharp Teeth (2007)
Toby Barlow
"As ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about."
One Day (2009)
David Nicholls
"Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life . . . the perfect beach read for people who are normally repelled by the very idea of beach reads."
The Financial Lives of the Poets (2009)
Jess Walter
"It made me laugh more than any other book this year."
Red Plenty (2010)
Francis Spufford
"A hammer-and-sickle version of Altman's Nashville, with central committees replacing country music . . . [Spufford] has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature."
The Trouble with Lexie (2016)
Jessica Anya Blau
"Blau has a steady nerve, as well as a wicked imagination...It takes you a little while to realize that you're reading is a top-notch comic writing, because you're getting all the stuff you normally get in literary fiction as well; rites of passage, the complications of fractured families, the works."
Bowlaway (2019)
Elizabeth McCracken
"Elizabeth McCracken is one of my favorite writers...I've read everything she's written...and there's nothing I haven't liked and admired enormously."
We Run the Tides (2021)
Vendela Vida
"We Run the Tides is smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And it’s also FUNNY. Who knew that you could combine all of those qualities into one slim volume? Not many writers, that’s for sure. I loved every single page, and was sorry when I had to say goodbye to Eulabee and her family."
Trespasses (2022)
Louise Kennedy
"Trespasses is a beautiful, devastating novel. It feels real and true, and it loves its characters, utterly authentic people trying to live ordinary lives in desperate times. This book will last."
Cult Classic (2022)
Sloane Crosley
"Cult Classic is aimed with deadly accuracy at those unfortunate enough to have dated only during the twenty-first century. It's witty - of course, because Sloane Crosley wrote it - and razor sharp, and very clever, ditto, but it's more romantic and redemptive than one had any right to expect. It also contains one-liners destined to appear on T-shirts and coffee mugs. It's so good. I couldn't stop reading it."
Pineapple Street (2023)
Jenny Jackson
"Jenny Jackson has written a lovely, absorbing, acutely observed novel about class, money and love. These are the themes of Henry James and Jane Austen, but they are observed with a fresh eye and a contemporary voice. Who wouldn't want to read Pineapple Street?"
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