Britta Böhler | June BookHaul @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Let’s chat about the books I bought in June.
(1) Claudia Piñeira, Elena Knows, transl. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle (2021 / 2007): goodreads.com/book/show/56802275-elena-knows
#TranslatedFiction #BookerInternational

(2) Juli Berwald Life on the Rocks (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58537334-life-on-the-rocks
#NonFiction
Trailer Chasing Coral (on Netflix): youtube.com/watch?v=aGGBGcjdjXA

(3) Michelle Nijhuis, Beloved Beasts (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/53404260-beloved-beasts
#NonFiction

(4) Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58085285-the-five-wounds
#BTP

(5) Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun (1929): goodreads.com/book/show/19971063-plum-bun
#1001Women

(6) Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy (1960): goodreads.com/book/show/517061.The_Country_Girls
#1001Women

(7) Anna Kavan, Ice (1967): goodreads.com/book/show/636223.Ice
#1001Women

(8) Alice Adams, A Southern Exposure (1995): goodreads.com/book/show/1208158.A_Southern_Exposure
#1001WomenPossible

(9) Tana French, The Searcher (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/58735245-the-searcher

Channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?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:
New novel – published in Dutch on 30 December 2020:
De juiste houding: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

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

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