Britta Böhler | 1.001 Books You Need To Read Before You Die! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded November 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 November
The project was inspired by Sandy: youtube.com/watch?v=DN9_pNux_cI

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

As of November 1, 2022:
Unread: 570
Read: 431 (I added one book I had already read to the list)
Read in October: 3 / total in 2022: 58 (including the additions)

Read in October:
I read three of the five that I picked for October.

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

2 Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): goodreads.com/book/show/93134.The_Mysteries_of_Udolpho
#Buddyread

3 Kate Moore, Radium Girls (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/35522276-the-radium-girls
#Buddyread #Nonfiction

My picks for November:
1 Lennie Goodings, A Bite of the Apple (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/51771399-a-bite-of-the-apple

2 Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56132724-the-woman-they-could-not-silence
#Buddyread

3 Ding Ling, I Myself Am a Woman (1989): goodreads.com/book/show/26401847-i-myself-am-a-woman

4 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss (2003): goodreads.com/book/show/56155260-gathering-moss
#BookNaturalists

5 Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman / stories (1988): goodreads.com/book/show/101413.The_Middleman_and_Other_Stories
#Buddyread

People / Channels mentioned:
Terri on IG: instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Doris @alldbooks9165

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/