Britta Böhler | 10 Favorite Underrated Nonfiction Books! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about ten of my favorite nonfiction books that I feel are underrated and deserve more attention.
#nonfiction #favorites #booktube

Meena Alexander, Fault Lines (1993): goodreads.com/book/show/26836887-fault-lines

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/25658482-at-the-existentialist-caf

Maggie Doherty, The Equivalents (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/50214690-the-equivalents

Rose George, Nine Pints (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/42195772-nine-pints

Katherine McCormack, Women in the Picture (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/61145428-women-in-the-picture

Ann Morgan, The World Between Two Covers – Reading the Globe (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/23331535-the-world-between-two-covers

Emer O’Toole, Girls Will Be Girls (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/23699151-girls-will-be-girls

Geneviève von Petzinger, First Sign (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/25814327-the-first-signs

Paola Ramos, Finding LatinX (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/53710122-finding-latinx

Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/22238381-the-upstairs-wife

People & channels mentioned
Doris @alldbooks9165
Heidi @myreadinglife8816

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1

I also wrote some books:
New novel – published in Dutch on 30 December 2020:
De juiste houding: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt