Also published as: 31 Songs

Author: Nick Hornby Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Essays, Short Stories, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon OpenLibrary Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781573223560 1573223565

Celebrates thirty-one of the author's favorite songs in a collection of essays about such musical renditions as Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road," Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker," and Van Morrison's "Caravan." Similar books: Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs What I'd Say to the Martians by Jack Handey The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders I Wrote This Book Because I Love You by Tim Kreider Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley But Enough About You by Christopher Buckley I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk Good Things Happen to People You Hate by Rebecca Fishbein Critical Mass by James Wolcott Kick Ass by Carl Hiaasen Old Songs in a New Cafe by Robert James Waller