Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 13 February 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about the books I finished / am reading / started.

Finished
- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987): goodreads.com/book/show/30137754-beloved
Buddyread with Heidi @myreadinglife8816
#BHM

- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/53843459-undrowned
#BookNaturalistBookClub
#BHM
ReadingList announced by Heidi @MyReadingLife: youtube.com/watch?v=HLipCGJS53A&t=621s

Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984): goodreads.com/book/show/651354.The_Fat_Black_Woman_s_Poems
#InvisibleCities / February: Guyana

Rania Mamoun, Thirteen Months of Sunrise, transl. from the Arabic by Elizabeth Jaquette (2019 / 2009):
goodreads.com/book/show/45458533-thirteen-months-of-sunrise
#RATW
Mel’s channel @Melanie Martin

Started:
Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen (2004):
goodreads.com/book/show/1875304.The_Red_Queen
#1.001Women
Buddyread with Sandy @MsReadsAlot

Paulina Bren, Hotel Barbizon- The Hotel That Set Women Free (2021):
goodreads.com/book/show/54304210-the-barbizon
#1.001Women
Buddyead with Heidi and Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/51470258-city-of-girls

Connect with me:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

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 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