How to Be Good

How to Be Good
	First edition cover
Author	Nick Hornby
Country	England
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	31 May 2001
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback) & Audio CD
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	0-670-88823-0
OCLC	46393465
Preceded by	About a Boy
Followed by	A Long Way Down

How to Be Good is a 2001 novel by the English writer Nick Hornby. It centers on characters Katie Carr, a doctor, and her husband, David Grant. The story begins when David stops being "The Angriest Man In Holloway" and begins to be "good" with the help of his spiritual healer, DJ GoodNews (who also shows up briefly in Hornby's A Long Way Down). The pair go about this by nominally convincing people to give their spare bedrooms to the homeless, but as their next scheme comes around, "reversal" (being good to people one has not been good to in the past), this proves to be fruitless and thus David gives up his strivings and his plans for a book on how to be good, appropriately named "How to be Good."

The protagonist, Katie, briefly encounters a minor character named Dick whose description and attitude towards music are reminiscent of the character of the same name from Hornby's first novel, High Fidelity.

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Works by Nick Hornby
Novels	High Fidelity About a Boy How to Be Good A Long Way Down Slam Juliet, Naked Funny Girl
Non-fiction books	Fever Pitch Songbook The Polysyllabic Spree Housekeeping vs. The Dirt Shakespeare Wrote for Money More Baths Less Talking
Screenplays	Fever Pitch (1997) An Education (2009) Wild (2014) Brooklyn (2015) Love, Nina (2016) State of the Union (2019)
Adaptations	Fever Pitch (1997) High Fidelity (2000) About a Boy (2002) Fever Pitch (2005) About a Boy (2014–2015) A Long Way Down (2014) Slam (2016) Juliet, Naked (2018) High Fidelity (2020)