Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 27 November 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Let’s chat about the books I’ve read recently / am currently reading.

Finished
Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56132724-the-woman-they-could-not-silence
#Buddyread #1001Women
#nonfictionnovember / Prompt: Record

Emma Dabiri, Twisted (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/51938427-twisted
#IrishLit
#nonfictionnovember / Prompt: Element (not 'elementary' as I said in the video...)

Meena Alexander, Fault Lines (1993): goodreads.com/book/show/26836887-fault-lines
#1001Women
#nonfictionnovember / Prompt: Border

Almost finished
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56155260-gathering-moss
#Buddyread #BookNaturalists #SkodenReadathon #1001Women

Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and other stories (1988): goodreads.com/book/show/101413.The_Middleman_and_Other_Stories
#Buddyread #1001Women

Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice (1985): goodreads.com/book/show/52202469-the-good-apprentice
#Buddyread

Still reading
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856): goodreads.com/book/show/3678144-aurora-leigh
#Poetry #1001Women

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962): goodreads.com/book/show/24100.The_Golden_Notebook
#Buddyread #1001 Women

People & channels mentioned
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Doris @alldbooks9165
Karen @RunwrightReads

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/