Britta Böhler | 12 Classics: The Bondswoman's Narrative @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the first of the 12 classics that I will read in 2023!

First book / January read:
Hannah Crafts, The Bondswoman’s Narrative (written ca. 1859): goodreads.com/book/show/588937.The_Bondwoman_s_Narrative
#Buddyread with Courtney @CourtneyFerriter

February pick:
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883): goodreads.com/book/show/588504.The_Story_of_an_African_Farm

The list of the 12 classics in chronological order:
Sei Shõnagon, The Pillow Book, transl. from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney (1002): goodreads.com/book/show/18187.The_Pillow_Book

Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, transl. from the French by Rosalind Brown-Grant (1405): goodreads.com/book/show/18004164-the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666): goodreads.com/book/show/354620.The_Blazing_World_and_Other_Writings

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688): goodreads.com/book/show/51187.Oroonoko_The_Rover_and_Other_Works

Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig (1859): goodreads.com/book/show/369783.Our_Nig

Hannah Crafts, The Bondswoman’s Narrative (ca. 1859): goodreads.com/book/show/588937.The_Bondwoman_s_Narrative
#January

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861): goodreads.com/book/show/597671.Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl

Jane Austen, Lady Susan (1871): goodreads.com/book/show/91582.Lady_Susan

Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883): goodreads.com/book/show/588504.The_Story_of_an_African_Farm
#February

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy (1892): goodreads.com/book/show/7577254-iola-leroy

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (1901): goodreads.com/book/show/1981726.My_Brilliant_Career

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915): goodreads.com/book/show/531509.Herland

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/