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High Fidelity by Nick HornbyRead about the other books on the list.
Self-confessed "arsehole" and record-shop owner, Rob, shares his life of lists – girlfriends, break-ups, dream jobs, variously documented favourite songs – and tells us, "In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn … but nobody ever writes about how it is possible to escape and rot … That's what happened to me; that's what happens to most people."
High Fidelity also made Mark Hodkinson's critic's chart of rock music in fiction and John Sutherland's list of the best books about listing.
--Marshal Zeringue