Not only does it make you want to read more but, like all great books, it's also terrific company.

For anyone whose idea of a good time is arguing with friends about their favourite books...amusing and contagiously enthusiastic.

This is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them.

Nick Hornby is first and foremost a reader and he approaches books like the rest of us: hoping to pick up one he can't put down. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is a diary of sorts, charting his reading life over two years. It is a celebration of why we read - its pleasures, its disappointments and its surprises.

And above all, it is for you - the ever hopeful reader.

INTRODUCTION

SEPTEMBER 2003

OCTOBER 2003

NOVEMBER 2003

DECEMBER 2003/JANUARY 2004

GEORGE AND SAM: AUTISM IN TIlE FAMILY

FEBRUARY2004

MARCH 2004

APRIL 2004

MAY 2004

DAVID COPPERFIELD

JUNE 2004

'IMPOSSIBLE DREAM'

JULY 2004

AUGUST 2004

SEPTEMBER 2004

OCTOBER 2004

TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY

NOVEMBER 2004

A LIFE IN LETTERS

FEBRUARY 2005

MARCH 2005

ASSASSINATION VACATION

APRIL 2005

MAY 2005

JUNE/JULY 2005

AUGUST 2005

SEPTEMBER 2005

CITIZEN VINCE

OCTOBER 2005

NOVEMBER 2005

FEBRUARY 2006

MARCH 2006

GHOSTING

April 2006

THEN WE CAME TO THE END

MAY 2006

PERSEPOLIS

JUNE 2006

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX OF STUFF HE'S BEEN READING