Britta Böhler | 1.001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for September.
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot

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

As of September 1, 2022:
Unread: 580
Read: 421
Read in August: 11 / total in 2022: 48

Read in August
1 Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman (1958): goodreads.com/book/show/36253.The_Winthrop_Woman

2 Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959): goodreads.com/book/show/505483.A_Raisin_in_the_Sun

3 Oksana Zabuzhko, Fieldwork of Ukrainian Sex, transl. from the Ukrainian by Halyna Hryn (2011 / 1996): goodreads.com/book/show/9274846-fieldwork-in-ukrainian-sex

4 Cary Churchill, Cloud 9 (1979): goodreads.com/book/show/243706.Cloud_Nine

5 Wislawa Szymborska, Het moment (in Dutch), transl. from the Polish by Gerard Rasch (2003 / 2002): goodreads.com/book/show/31449429-het-moment

6 Sappho, Stung with Love, transl. from the Greek by Aaron Poochigian: goodreads.com/book/show/6707803-stung-with-love

7 Mary Olivier, Why I Wake Early (2004): goodreads.com/book/show/71654.Why_I_Wake_Early

8 Luisa Capetiilo, A Nation of Women, transl. from the Spanish (Puerto Rico) by Alan West Durán (2021 / 1911): goodreads.com/book/show/54732984-a-nation-of-women

9 Claire Lispector, Daydreams & Drunkenness of a Young Lady, transl. from the Portuguese (Brazil) by Katrina Dodson (2018 / 1960): goodreads.com/book/show/36436062-daydream-and-drunkenness-of-a-young-lady

10 Rachel Ingalls, Mrs Caliban (1982): goodreads.com/book/show/55744143-mrs-caliban

11 Maria Tatar, The Heroine with a 1.001 Faces (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56769530-the-heroine-with-1001-faces

September picks
1 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977): goodreads.com/book/show/28251241-ceremony
#Buddyread

2 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargossa Sea (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/829372.Wide_Sargasso_Sea

3 Mary Renault, Return to Night (1947): goodreads.com/book/show/22549665-return-to-night

4 Sinéad Gleeson (ed.), The Long Gaze Back (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/26150975-the-long-gaze-back
#Buddyread

And I forgot to mention thi one that is also on the September list:
5 Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, transl. from the Italian (Switzerland) by
Tim Parks (1992 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/1440460.Sweet_Days_of_Discipline

People / Channels mentioned:
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
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/