Recent Book Activity

I'm a poet, reviewer and charity information officer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of my favourite poets are Margaret Atwood, Jackie Kay, Ruth Padel, Polly Clark, Edwin Morgan and Rebecca Elson. Some of my favourite novels are:

The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Dubravka Ugresic
Snow - Maxence Fermine
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
The Tuscan Master - Peter Adamson
The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Skvorecky
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishighuro
Life A Users Manual - Georges Perec
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Solid Mandala - Patrick White
Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Wall - Marlene Haushofer

Favourite books of short stories
The Barnum Museum by Stephen Millhauser
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
Mr Palomar Italo Calvino
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Favourite Non-Fiction
Mukiwa - Peter Godwin
The Beak of the Finch - Jonathon Weiner
Spoken Here - Mark Abley
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

I read in German, Italian and French as well as English.

My Bookcrossing shelves just reflect my bookcrossing activity. I'm even slowly removing my Permanent Collection! If you want to have a better idea of the books I have most enjoyed reading, you can now find me on Good Reads at: www.goodreads.com/julietwilson.