Britta Böhler | My First BookHaul of 2023! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Let’s chat about the books I bought in January.
#bookhaul

I'm still an idiot because I said Parsipur's novel (book #8 below) was translated 'from the Persian' but I meant Farsi. Duh! One day I will get it right...

Also: Body Kintsugi (book #5 below) is not a memoir but autofiction.

1 Rebecca F. Kuang, Babel (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/57945316-babel-or-the-necessity-of-violence
#Buddyread #fantasy

2 Gayl Jones, Palmares (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58572479-palmares
#1001Women #ViragoPress

3 Li Zi Shu, The Age of Goodbyes, transl. from the Chinese by Y.Z. Chin (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60830369-the-age-of-goodbyes
#GlobalSouth #Translated #FeministPress

4 Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/61409468-unwell-women
#1001Women #NonFiction

5 Senka Marić, Body Kintsugi, transl. from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth (2022 / 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59737419-body-kintsugi
#Buddyread #NonFiction #memoir

6 Vanessa Nakate, The Bigger Picture (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56817598-a-bigger-picture
#NonFiction #Booknaturalists #GlobalSouth

7 Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness (1960): goodreads.com/book/show/31743049-this-sweet-sickness
#1001Women #ViragoPress #Crime

8 Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, transl. form the Farsi by Farridoun Farrokh (2004 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/10996605-women-without-men
#1001Women #Iran #TranslatedFiction #FeministPress

9 Eva Ensler, The Vagina Monologues (1996): goodreads.com/book/show/38467023-the-vagina-monologues
#1001Women #ViragoPress

10. Sarah Schulman, The Cosmopolitans (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/25330194-the-cosmopolitans
#FeministPress

11 Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother, transl. from the French by Leslie Camhi (2022 / 2018): goodreads.com/book/show/59684697-the-book-of-mother
#TranslatedFiction #Debut #ViragoPress

People & channels mentioned
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Jo Smith

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/