Discover new books on Goodreads

See if your friends have read any of John Wilson's books

2 ratings | 2 reviews | avg rating:4.00

John’s Year In Books

John’s 2025 Year in Books

Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to John’s 2025 Year in Books

John Wilson’s Followers (54)

John’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (15)
read (12)
did-not-finish (0)

John’s Friends (63)

Marsha

2,327 books | 1,596 friends

Nancy Runstedler

1,424 books | 397 friends

Diana Jaques

456 books | 225 friends

Gillian

2,414 books | 160 friends

Jeffrey

6,112 books | 350 friends

Becky

9,086 books | 1,643 friends

Brenda Kearns

536 books | 1,360 friends

Martha Brack Martin

314 books | 116 friends

More friends…

John Wilson

Goodreads Author

Born

Edinburgh, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.johnwilsonauthor.com

Twitter

teenreadings

Genre

Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir

Influences

George Orwell ...more

Member Since

May 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadscomjohn_wilson

edit data

John Wilson, an ex-geologist and frustrated historian, is the award-winning author of fifty novels and non-fiction books for adults and teens. His passion for history informs everything he writes, from the recreated journal of an officer on Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition to young soldiers experiencing the horrors of the First and Second World Wars and a memoir of his own history. John researches and writes in Lantzville on Vancouver Island. There are many more details in his memoir, Lands of Lost Content, https://www.amazon.com/Lands-Lost-Con... ...more

102 posts
John Wilson's Blog

Moving to a new blog.

Thanks to everyone for visiting this site. I hope you have enjoyed the scattered thoughts I have uploaded here. I have now transferred my energies into writing a memoir in an attempt to understand how the past, both personal and historical, came together to turn an anxious kid and troubled teen into a storyteller and successful author. The first episodes examine my parent's lives in India and Read more of this blog post »

View more on John Wilson's website »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on February 06, 2020 16:28

View all 102 posts »

Combine Editions
John Wilson’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 2,966 ratings · 528 reviews · 866 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lost Cause (Steve #1; Seven #2) 3.60 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flames of the Tiger 3.82 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shot at Dawn: World War I, Allan McBride, France, 1917 3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And in the Morning 3.75 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Steps to Death 4.03 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graves of Ice: The Lost Franklin Expedition, The Northwest Passage, George Chambers, 1845 3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Arrow (Steve #2) 3.72 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age 3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Soldier's Sketchbook: The Illustrated First World War Diary of R.H. Rabjohn 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames 4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by John Wilson…

Series by John Wilson

Steve (2 books)
by

John Wilson (Goodreads Author)

3.62 avg rating — 605 ratings

Desert Legends (3 books)
by

John Wilson (Goodreads Author)

3.48 avg rating — 95 ratings

Stolen (2 books)
by

John Wilson (Goodreads Author)

3.38 avg rating — 78 ratings

The Heretic's Secret Trilogy (3 books)
by

John Wilson (Goodreads Author)

3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings

Heretic's Secret (11 books)
by

John Wilson (Goodreads Author)

3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings

More series by John Wilson…

John is Currently Reading

John Wilson is currently reading

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 09, 2026 10:39PM

John Wilson is currently reading

The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy #1-3 (Snare, Trap and Cage)

by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

May 09, 2025 07:50PM

John Wilson is currently reading

Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1)

by Åsa Larsson

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

May 09, 2025 07:50PM

rss
John’s Recent Updates

John Wilson is currently reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 09, 2026 10:39PM · like
John Wilson finished reading Country Of The Blind (Jack Parlabane) by Christopher Brookmyre	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 13, 2025 09:10PM · like
John Wilson is currently reading Country Of The Blind (Jack Parlabane) by Christopher Brookmyre	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 05, 2025 08:09AM · like
John Wilson finished reading Reconstruction by Mick Herron	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 02, 2025 08:03AM · like
John Wilson is currently reading Reconstruction by Mick Herron	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 26, 2025 01:16AM · like
John Wilson is currently reading The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy #1-3 (Snare, Trap and Cage) by Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 09, 2025 07:50PM · like
John Wilson is currently reading Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1) by Åsa Larsson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 09, 2025 07:50PM · like
John Wilson is currently reading Sharpe's Trafalgar (Sharpe, #4) by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 09, 2025 07:49PM · like
John Wilson is currently reading Blackout by Simon Scarrow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 09, 2025 07:49PM · like
John Wilson is currently reading An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard, #1) by Scott Pratt (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 09, 2025 07:49PM · like

More of John's books…

Quotes by John Wilson (?)

“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
― John Wilson

9 likes

“Imagine Love Story retold by a theatre group for the dramatically challenged.”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

0 likes

“solid rock and it took immense amounts of heat, pressure and time to make it act like liquid chocolate. Gneiss is a high-grade metamorphic rock, which means that it formed under conditions of extreme heat and/or pressure.”
― John Wilson, Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age

0 likes

See all John Wilson's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The History Book ...: BEA'S 100 MOVIES WATCHED IN 2012/2013	691	240	Mar 09, 2013 08:20PM
The History Book ...: BEA'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2013	11	33	Mar 11, 2013 07:52PM
The History Book ...: * FILM HISTORY - PART ONE	621	495	Jan 24, 2019 05:01AM
What's the Name o...: Historical fiction: A fictional novel about a historic Canadian exploration gone wrong	12	452	Nov 12, 2019 09:23PM
WACKY READING CHA...: CHARACTERS, A-Z (2019)	46	50	May 13, 2020 03:52PM
Making Connections: 6035. Lands of Lost Content: A Memoir by John Wilson	1	8	Feb 05, 2021 09:56AM
Crazy Challenge C...: The Oldest Known...	109	102	Jun 29, 2024 11:45AM