Britta Böhler | BookHaul @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I bought in December
#ReadPalestine #bookhaul #booktube

publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/free-ebooks-for-readpalestine-week-november-29-december-5

BookHaul:
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2006): goodreads.com/book/show/9394255-mornings-in-jenin
#debut

Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/52761023-against-the-loveless-world

Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/44778710-the-parisian

Hala Alyan, Salt Houses (2017): goodreads.com/book/show/30971664-salt-houses

This Is Not a Border / Collection (2017): goodreads.com/book/show/35700003-this-is-not-a-border

Also mentioned:
Shania Shibli, Minor Detail, transl. From the Arabic by Elizabeth Jaquette (2020 / 2017): goodreads.com/book/show/52974301-minor-detail

Asmaa al-Ghoul (with Sélim Nassib), Rebel in Gaza, transl. from the French by Mike Mitchell, (2018 / 2016): goodreads.com/book/show/38392221-a-rebel-in-gaza

And I forgot to mention Sim Kern, a Jewish American booktokker, whose videos always help me with recommendations.
on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@simkern
on IG: instagram.com/sim_bookstagrams_badly/?hl=en

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article 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): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php
available in Dutch

The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Danish and Turkish

Dutch non-fiction:
De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

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

and for German readers:
- 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