Britta Böhler | February BookHaul @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 minutes ago.
Let’s chat about the books I bought in February.

1 Elizabeth George, Joseph / Inspector Lynley Mysteries #6 (1993): goodreads.com/book/show/116687.Missing_Joseph
#MarchMysteryMadness #CrimeFiction #Buddyread

2 Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon, Razzoli & Isles #1 (2001): goodreads.com/book/show/32263.The_Surgeon
#MarchMysteryMadness #CrimeFiction

3 Tess Gerritsen, Gravity (1999): goodreads.com/book/show/32260.Gravity
#MarchMysteryMadness #CrimeFiction

4 Louise Penny, Still Life / Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1 (2005): goodreads.com/book/show/23014874-still-life
#MarchMysteryMadness #CrimeFiction #Buddyread

4 Bought last year for Cloak & Dagger:
Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders, transl. from the Japanese by Alison Watts (2020 / 2005): goodreads.com/book/show/51054767-the-aosawa-murders
#MarchMysteryMadness #CrimeFiction #TranslatedFiction

6 Joy Williams, Harrow (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/60375284-harrow
#Buddyread #IndiePress

7 Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, transl. from the French by Grace Frick (1954 / 1951): goodreads.com/book/show/1040676.Memoirs_of_Hadrian
#TranslatedFiction #1001Women

8 Nawal Al Sadaawi, The Hidden Face of Eve, transl. form the Arabic by Sherif Hetata (1989 / 1977): goodreads.com/book/show/26153567-the-hidden-face-of-eve
#IndiePress #GlobalSouth #TranslatedNonfiction #Feminism

9 Doreen Cunningham, Soundings (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59366204-soundings
#Nonfiction #ViragoPress

People & channels mentioned
Jen @RememberedReads
Jen’s announcement video of March Mystery Madness: youtube.com/watch?v=C75iyHeISCw&t=10s
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
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/