Britta Böhler | Birthday BookHaul! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I got for my birthday! (And it’s 11 books, not 12, one book is still ‘on its way’. :-))
#bookhaul #books #reading

1 Ursula Le Guin, Collected Poems (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/62568465-collected-poems
#poetry

2 Ursula Le Guin (with David Naimon), Conversations on Writing (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/36276435-ursula-k-le-guin
#nonfiction

3 Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59892267-factory-girls
#IrishLit

4 Jasmine Donahaye, Birdsplaining (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/94344846-birdsplaining
#nature #nonfiction

5 Susan Sontag, On Women (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/60827532-on-women
#nonfiction #feminism

6 Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home (1985): goodreads.com/book/show/60012535-always-coming-home
#scifi

7 Elinor Glyn, Three Weeks (1907): goodreads.com/book/show/897036.Three_Weeks
#1001Women

8 Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems, transl. from the Russian by D.M. Thomas (1969): goodreads.com/book/show/7454863-selected-poems
#1001Women #womenintranslation

9 Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November (1934): goodreads.com/book/show/59644804-now-in-november
#1001Women

10 Emilia Pardo Bazán, The House of Ulloa, transl. from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey & Lucia Graves (2013 / 1868): goodreads.com/book/show/17346273-the-house-of-ulloa
#1001Women #womenintranslation

11 Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier (1918): goodreads.com/book/show/38210200-the-return-of-the-soldier
#1001Women

People / channel mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?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/