Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 6 November 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I’ve read recently / am currently reading.

Finished
Joy Sorman, Life Sciences, transl. form the French by Lara Vergnaud (2021 / 2017): goodreads.com/book/show/58674315-life-sciences
#Buddyread #TranslatedFiction

Mary Ann Sieghart, The Authority Gap (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/55367515-the-authority-gap
#Buddyread #NonFiction

Still reading
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): goodreads.com/book/show/93134.The_Mysteries_of_Udolpho
#Buddyread #1001Women

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

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

Lennie Goodings, A Bite of the Apple (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/51771399-a-bite-of-the-apple
#NonfictionNovember #1001Women
Prompt: Record

Annalee Newitz, Four List Cities (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/50641100-four-lost-cities
#Buddyread #NonfictionNovember
Prompt: Secret

People & channels mentioned
Jo Smith
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Terri on IG: instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Heidi @myreadinglife8816

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/