# 31 Songs

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- Book: [31 Songs](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/31-songs) ([31 Songs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/31-songs.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-979-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2014-01-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.' In his first non-fiction work since Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop. 'The soundtrack to his life ... a revealing insight into one of Britain's most popular writers' Evening Standard