Britta Böhler | 1.001 Books I Have To Read Before I Die! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The journey continues! Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for February 2023
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot: youtube.com/watch?v=DN9_pNux_cI&list=PLG18WCKBV0SSOjDWlVqcFE26eWTeR9HpS&index=1

My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001

As of February 1, 2023:
Unread: 553
Read: 448
Read in January: 5 / total in 2023: 6 (I added one book I had already read)

Read in January 2023
1 Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/59124158-golem-girl
#ViragoPress

2 Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58536037-woman-eating
#ViragoPress

3 Olga Ravn, The Employees, transl. from the Danish by Martin Aitkin (2022 / 2018): goodreads.com/book/show/58470819-the-employees
#Buddyread #translatedfiction

4 Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, transl. from the Spanish (Mexico) by Carol & Thomas Christensen (1995 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/89477.Like_Water_for_Chocolate
#Buddyread #debut #GlobalSouth #translatedfiction

5 Hannah Crafts, The Bondswoman Narrative (written ca. 1859): goodreads.com/book/show/588937.The_Bondwoman_s_Narrative
#classics

February picks
1 Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness (1960): goodreads.com/book/show/31743049-this-sweet-sickness
#crimefiction

2 Cleghorn, Unwell Women (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/61409468-unwell-women
#nonfiction

3 Olive Schreiner, An African Farm (1883): goodreads.com/book/show/588504.The_Story_of_an_African_Farm
#classics

4 Molly Keane, Good Behavior (1981): goodreads.com/book/show/439712.Good_Behaviour
#Buddyread #IrishLit

5 Sharhnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, transl. from the Farsi by Faridoun Farrokh (2012 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/10996605-women-without-men
#IGlobalSouth #Iran

6 Eve Ensler, Vagina Monologue (1996): goodreads.com/book/show/38467023-the-vagina-monologues

People / Channels mentioned:
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

Connect with me:
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

The name of the channel (‘The Second Shelf’) was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's book, 'The Second Sex'. And it was the title of an article by Meg Wolitzer 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:
Fiction: De juiste houding (2021) / only available in Dutch: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

Nonfiction: De goede advocaat (2017) / nonfiction / only available in Dutch: http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

Fiction: The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
In the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Danish, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish

Nonfiction: Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

Nonfiction: De zwerftocht van een leider (2000) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime fiction, 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

also available in German:
- 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

and in Dutch:
- Heldhaftig (2012)
- Vastberaden (2014)
- Barmhartig (2016)
https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/auteur/britta-bolt/