"All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do." -Nick Hornby, from Songbook A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and High Fidelity.

Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin…

Songbook is Nick Hornby's labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it's good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives-all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.

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NICK HORNBY is the author of the internationally bestselling novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Slam, Juliet, Naked, and Funny Girl, as well as several works of nonfiction. He lives in London.

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Songbook31 Songs... 1. Introduction

"Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From"-Teenage Fanclub 2. "Thunder Road"-Bruce Springsteen 3. "I'm Like a Bird"-Nelly Furtado 4. "Heartbreaker"-Led Zeppelin 5. "One Man Guy"-Rufus Wainwright 6. "Samba Pa Ti"-Santana 7. "Mama You Been on My Mind"-Rod Stewart 8. "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"-Bob Dylan 9. "Rain"-The Beatles 10. "You Had Time"-Ani DiFranco 11. "I've Had It"-Aimee Mann 12. "Born for Me"-Paul Westerberg 13. "Frankie Teardrop"-Suicide 14. "Ain't That Enough"-Teenage Fanclub 15. "First I Look at the Purse"-the J. Geils Band 16. "Smoke"-Ben Folds Five 17. "A Minor Incident"-Badly Drawn Boy 18. "Glorybound"-The Bible 19. "Caravan"-Van Morrison 20. "So I'll Run"-Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture 21. "Puff the Magic Dragon"-Gregory Isaacs 22. "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3"-Ian Dury & the Blackheads 23. "The Calvary Cross"-Richard and Linda Thompson 24. "Late for the Sky"-Jackson Browne 25. "Hey Self Defeater"-Mark Mulcahy 26. "Needle in a Haystack"-The Velvelettes 27. "Let's Straighten It Out"-O. V. Wright 28. "Röyksopp's Night Out"-Röyksopp 29. "Frontier Psychiatrist"-the Avalanches 30. "No Fun/Push It"-Soulwax 31. "Pissing in a River"-the Patti Smith Group ...And 15 Albums It's a Mann's World Alternative Earle Sweet Misery The Entertainers Pop Quiz Discography