Britta Böhler | First BookHaul of 2024! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the first books I acquired this year.
#bookhaul #booktube #books

Peter Frankopan, New Silk Roads (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/40921633-the-new-silk-roads
#present #nonfiction

Jennifer Ackerman, What an Owl Knows (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/184584250-what-an-owl-knows
#present #nonfiction #nature

Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Haver Never Known Men, transl. from the French by Roe Schwartz (1997 / 1995): goodreads.com/book/show/11996.I_Who_Have_Never_Known_Men
#translatedfiction

Naomi Alderman, The Future (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/125351885-the-future
#scifi

Eowyn Ivey, Bright Edge of the World (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/29758006-to-the-bright-edge-of-the-world-paperback-may-04-2017-ivey-eowyn
#historicalfiction #buddyread

P.D. James, Cover Her Face / Adam Dalgliesh #1 (1962): goodreads.com/book/show/41086885-cover-her-face
#mystery #buddyread

Elizabeth George, Deception on His Mind / Inspector Lynley Series #9 (1997): goodreads.com/book/show/31366.Deception_on_His_Mind

People & channel mentioned
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Terri @MsTerriB

Warning! Infodump ahead…
Name of my YouTube channel:
I stole 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

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
X, formerly twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

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, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
- De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

- Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

- De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime novels under the pen name 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