How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer.Wenger: The Making of a Legend – Jasper Rees.A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates – Blake Bailey (completed).How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer (two copies).The Poet and the Murderer – Simon Worrall.Quitting Smoking – The Lazy Person's Guide! – Gillian Riley.How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good – Gillian Riley.A Tragic Honesty – Blake Bailey (unfinished).The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem.

Notes on a Scandal – Zoë Heller (released in the US as 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal').

A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates – Blake Bailey.

Penguin Modern Poets 5 – Corso/ Ferlinghetti/ Ginsberg.

The Ern Malley Affair – Michael Heyward.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction – J.

Against Oblivion: Some of the Lives of the 20th-Century Poets – Ian Hamilton.

Robert Lowell: A Biography – Ian Hamilton.

The Dirt (2006), Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008) and More Baths Less Talking (2012). There are three follow-up books, Housekeeping vs. In the book, Hornby describes the people who run The Believer as being 'all dressed in white robes and smiling maniacally, sort of like a literary equivalent of the Polyphonic Spree.' (pg.

The title is a reference to the choral symphonic-rock group The Polyphonic Spree. He then writes a column revolving around what he read, bought, and what he intends/intended to read. For instance, he might buy Dickens, but read J.D. In it, Hornby lists the books he bought each month, and the books he actually read. It also includes excerpts from such authors as Anton Chekhov and Charles Dickens. The book collates his columns from September 2003 to November 2004, inclusive. The Polysyllabic Spree is a 2004 collection of Nick Hornby's 'Stuff I've Been Reading' columns in The Believer.

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby