Britta Böhler | 1.001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for October.
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
As of October 1, 2022:
Unread: 574
Read: 427 (I added two books I had already read to the list)
Read in September: 3 / total in 2022: 55 (including the additions)
Read in September:
I read two of the four that I picked in August plus one ‘spontaneous’ pick.
1 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977): goodreads.com/book/show/28251241-ceremony
#Buddyread #Indiginous
2 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/829372.Wide_Sargasso_Sea
3 Mahnaz Afkhami, Women in Exile (1994): goodreads.com/book/show/2683588-women-in-exile
#NonFiction #PoC
October picks:
1 Sinéad Gleeson (ed.), The Long Gaze Back (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/26150975-the-long-gaze-back
#Buddyread #IrishLit
2 Carmen Boullosa, The Book of Anna, transl. from the Spanish (Mexico) by Samantha Schnee (2020 / 2016): goodreads.com/book/show/53056373-the-book-of-anna
#GlobalSouth
3 Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): goodreads.com/book/show/93134.The_Mysteries_of_Udolpho
#Buddyread
4 Namita Gokhale, The Blind Matriarch (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59059211-the-blind-matriarch
#GlobalSouth
I also want to read one nonfiction book off the list, but don’t know which yet…
People / Channels mentioned:
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Stephanie @timetoread1795
Terri on IG: instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
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/
Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for October.
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
As of October 1, 2022:
Unread: 574
Read: 427 (I added two books I had already read to the list)
Read in September: 3 / total in 2022: 55 (including the additions)
Read in September:
I read two of the four that I picked in August plus one ‘spontaneous’ pick.
1 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977): goodreads.com/book/show/28251241-ceremony
#Buddyread #Indiginous
2 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/829372.Wide_Sargasso_Sea
3 Mahnaz Afkhami, Women in Exile (1994): goodreads.com/book/show/2683588-women-in-exile
#NonFiction #PoC
October picks:
1 Sinéad Gleeson (ed.), The Long Gaze Back (2015): goodreads.com/book/show/26150975-the-long-gaze-back
#Buddyread #IrishLit
2 Carmen Boullosa, The Book of Anna, transl. from the Spanish (Mexico) by Samantha Schnee (2020 / 2016): goodreads.com/book/show/53056373-the-book-of-anna
#GlobalSouth
3 Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): goodreads.com/book/show/93134.The_Mysteries_of_Udolpho
#Buddyread
4 Namita Gokhale, The Blind Matriarch (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59059211-the-blind-matriarch
#GlobalSouth
I also want to read one nonfiction book off the list, but don’t know which yet…
People / Channels mentioned:
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Stephanie @timetoread1795
Terri on IG: instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
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/
