In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life. So we asked 31 music fans, including authors, musicians and artists what song is guaranteed to make their spine tingle .

Nick Hornby's 31 songs

1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

2. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From

3. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird

4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker

5. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy

6. Santana - Samba Pa Ti

7. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind

8. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window?

9. The Beatles - Rain

10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time

11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It

12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me

13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop

14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough

15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse

16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke

17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident

18. The Bible - Glorybound

19. Van Morrison -Caravan

20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run

21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon

22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3

23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross

24. Jackson Brownee - Late For the Sky

25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self-Defeater

26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack

27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out

28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out

29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It

31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River