Discover new books on Goodreads
See if your friends have read any of Adam Stevenson's books
more photos (1)
Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Adam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Adam Stevenson’s Followers (17)
13,650 books
|
2,051 friends
316 books
|
1,490 friends
924 books
|
62 friends
2,300 books
|
67 friends
1,645 books
|
239 friends
1,197 books
|
28 friends
4,013 books
|
242 friends
4,761 books
|
102 friends
More friends…
Adam Stevenson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brighton, The United Kingdom
Website
Twitter
Member Since
March 2012
To ask
Adam Stevenson
questions,
please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
Adam Stevenson
I have a life full of silliness and anecdote but not of mystery. Would love to know how I reminded that guy of his girlfriend though.
Adam Stevenson
I always read a challenge book in the summer. I’m very tempted by ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’.
|
Death of a Dream-Pedlar
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Thoughts on publishing
I wrote my first story when I was seven and never really stopped. I finished my first novel when I was twenty and knew from then that all I wanted to be in life was an author.
I wrote a lot after that. All sorts of novels, failed novels, short stories and articles. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, and there were some successes. My first novel was rejected by all the best publishers, this was back Read more of this blog post »
I wrote a lot after that. All sorts of novels, failed novels, short stories and articles. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, and there were some successes. My first novel was rejected by all the best publishers, this was back Read more of this blog post »
Adam’s Recent Updates
|
Adam Stevenson
is currently reading
|
|
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book liked it
|
|
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| The last book I didn’t finish was Clarissa in 2012, which I later tried again and read from beginning to end. I don’t unfinish books but 50 pages into The Satsuma Complex, I put it down. Of course, I couldn’t actually not finish it, so I did read the ...more | |
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| There was a time when I used to read many books about writing but I lost the urge as I passed my MA in ‘writing’ and quietly plugged away at my writing projects. I’d not heard of Bird by Bird until this year but for some reason, it kept popping up in ...more | |
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book liked it
|
|
|
Having read A Thousand Nights and One Night, I decided to top it off with Fables of the East, an anthology of works charting the entrance and impact of ‘eastern’ writings into Britain in the early modern period. It’s actually a companion piece to Fab ...more |
|
|
Adam Stevenson
wants to read
|
|
|
Adam Stevenson
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| I’d heard a little about The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and thought the approach suited the novel I’m currently writing, which is structured around scenes throughout a character’s life that adds up to a pattern of who they are and the society they ...more | |
|
Adam Stevenson
is currently reading
|
|
|
Adam Stevenson
finished reading
|
|
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
―
―
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
―
―
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.”
―
―
18th Century Enthusiasts
— 48 members
— last activity Jan 19, 2015 03:41PM
This group is for anyone who is intrigued by eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Writers Worth
— 1513 members
— last activity Jun 21, 2024 02:15PM
Book-lovers unite! Writers Worth is a group where writerly types meet & mingle, and everyone's welcome to promote books, sites, brands, services, and ...more