This week we welcome a genuine literary legend to YB: Nick Hornby! Nick is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy and, most recently, Just Like You. He’s also published non-fiction such as Fever Pitch, and has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and Love Nina. We talked to him about Rin Tin Tin, the pain of rereading, the definition of a classic and why his dad kept Fanny Hill in his boot.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nick Hornby- Just Like You
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport
Geoffrey Willans - Compleet Molesworth
Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Martin Amis - Money
Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch
EM Forster - Passage To India
George Orwell - Essays
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Paul Ewen - Francis Plug
George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Auberon Waugh - Diaries 72-76
Nick Hornby - Stuff I’ve Been Reading
David Kynaston - Austerity Britain
PG Wodehouse - Letters
Angus Calder - Myth of the Blitz
Rickie Lee Jones - Last Chance Texaco
Jane Allen - I Lost My Childish Laughter
Mark Harris - Mike Nichols
Carter & Kashner - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything
Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad
Mark Harris - Pictures at a Revolution
Tracey Thorn - My Rock and Roll Friend
Daniel Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room
Stefan Kanfer - Lucille Ball
Susan Orlean - Rin Tin Tin
Susan Orlean - Library Book
Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood
Mary Ann Shaffer - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Tannenbaum & Marks - I Want My MTV
Lucy Mangan - Bookworm
Francis Spufford - Child That Books Built
John Cleland - Fanny Hill
DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner- Lottie and Lisa
Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Ann Patchett - Dutch House
Gayl Jones - Palmares
Jonathan Wilson - History of Football Tactics
Dean Windass - Deano
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