Nick Hornby is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. His books have earned numerous awards and distinctions. Following is a brief overview of Hornby works published by Riverhead Books:


Fiction




HIGH FIDELITY (1995)

“Fast, fun and remarkably deft: a sharp-edged portrait that manages at once to be vicious, generous, and utterly good-natured.” – Kirkus Reviews

Awards/Distinctions:
New York Times Notable Book of 1995
Entertainment Weekly’s Top Ten books of 1995
Tower Top Forty Books of 1995

Bestseller Lists (Paperback):
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times
Amazon.com

Film Adaptation
Disney Touchstone (2000).
Directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack and Jack Black





ABOUT A BOY (1998)

“You should read [About a Boy] for its depictions of the trials of motherhood, the drawbacks to self-imposed detachment, the ache of childhood need, the elastic confines of what constitutes a family, and how it may never be too late to grow up.”
– Washington Post

Awards/Distinctions:
Serial in The New Yorker’s 1998 Christmas Fiction Issue
New York Times Notable Book of 1998
New York Public Library’s “Books to Remember” of 1998
ALA Notable Book of 1999
Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Bestseller Lists (Hardcover):
San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
Boston Globe
Independent Bookseller
Denver Post
Amazon.com

Bestseller Lists (Paperback):
New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe
Los Angles Times
Washington Post
Independent Bookseller
Publishers Weekly
NCIBA (Northern California Independent Booksellers Association)

Film Adaptation:
Universal Pictures (2002).
Directed by Chris Weitz, starring Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, and Rachel Weisz





HOW TO BE GOOD (2001)

“Good gives Hornby a new perch beyond rating records and relationships: the self-deprecating, self-doubting liberal, repelled by lockstep liberalism yet distrustful of the locked-in certitude of
the right. . . . Hornby reaches deeper, away from pat, albeit funny lines, and stakes new literary territory.”
– Boston Globe

“An ambitious example of postmodern literature at its most entertaining.”
– Seattle Times

Awards/Distinctions:
New York Times Notable Book of 2001
A Publishers Weekly Notable Book of 2001
New York Public Library’s “Books to Remember” 2001
Winner of the W.H. Smith’s Book Award for fiction
Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Excerpted in Book Magazine
A feature title of The Readers Club of America

Bestseller Lists (Hardcover):
New York Times
Publishers Weekly
Boston Globe
San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
Independent bookseller
Denver Post
Rocky Mountain News
Booksense

Bestseller Lists (Paperback):
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Publishers Weekly
New York Times Extended
San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
Independent Bookseller
Booksense

Non-Fiction:

FEVER PITCH (1998)

Awards/Distinctions:
#10 on Sports Illustrated Top 100 Sports Books of all time
Times of London’s Top Ten Football Books of All Time

Bestseller List:
Booksense

Film Adaptation (U.K.):
Distributed in U.S. by Phaedra Cinema (1999).
Directed by David Evans, starring Colin Firth and Ruth Gemmel

Film Adaptation (U.S.):
20th Century Fox. Scheduled for release in April 2005.
Directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly, starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon

SPEAKING WITH THE ANGEL (2001)

SONGBOOK (2003)

Awards/Distinctions:
A New York Times Notable Book of 2003 (in paperback)
Winner of the Orange Word International Writer’s London Award 2003
Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award