Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 7 May 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I read recently!
#amreading #booktube

Finished:
Angela Saini, The Patriarchs (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/61192833-the-patriarchs
#1001Women #nonfiction #feminism #buddyread

Ellen Harper, Iola Leroy (1892): goodreads.com/book/show/7577254-iola-leroy
#1001Women #12Classics
review: youtube.com/watch?v=WYtKwh4Cxb4

Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961):
goodreads.com/book/show/60677520-sunlight-on-a-broken-column
#1001Women #globalsouth #ViragoPress

Currently reading:
Janina Ramirez, Femina (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58468792-femina
#1001Women #nonfiction #buddyread

Elizabeth Bishop, One Art / Selected Letters, edited by Robert Giroux (1995): goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art
#1001Women #letters

Nawal El Saadawi, The Hidden Face of Eve, transl. from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata (1980 / 1977): goodreads.com/book/show/26153567-the-hidden-face-of-eve
#1001Women #nonfiction #translated

1001 Books I have to read:
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001

As of 7 May, 2023:
Unread: 541
Read: 460

People / Channels mentioned:
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
JoSmith
Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue

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/