Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 19 February 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I’ve read recently / am currently reading.

Finished:
Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (1988): goodreads.com/book/show/33363.Mama_Day
#Buddyread #BlackHistoryMonth

Ursula Le Guin, Lathe of Heaven (1971): goodreads.com/book/show/25984055-the-lathe-of-heaven
#Buddyread #Reread

Still reading:
Barbara Tuchmann, A Distant Mirror (1978): goodreads.com/book/show/568236.A_Distant_Mirror
#Readalong #Nonfiction

Started
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883): goodreads.com/book/show/588504.The_Story_of_an_African_Farm
#12Classics

Vanessa Nakate, Bigger Problem (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56817598-a-bigger-picture
#Booknaturalists #Nonfiction #GlobalSouth

Tana French, The Secret Place / Dublin Murder Mysteries #5 (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/52263433-the-secret-place
#Buddyread #CrimeFiction

People & channels mentioned
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Steve @saintdonoghue
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Terri @MsTerriB

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/