Britta Böhler | The first BookHaul of 2022! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Let’s chat about the books I bought in January.

- Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58347562-the-right-to-sex
#1.001Women

- Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/6335913-against-interpretation-and-other-essays
#AuthorSpotlight2022 Susan Sontag

- Octavia Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis #1 / 1987): goodreads.com/book/show/54817568-dawn
#Rereads 2022

- Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56036276-a-snake-falls-to-earth
Book Cougars on Goodreads: goodreads.com/group/show/247296-book-cougars
On YouTube: youtube.com/c/BookCougars
#IndiginousWriters

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

- Bessie Head, A Question of Power (1973): goodreads.com/book/show/58208570-a-question-of-power
#BHM
#1.001Women

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

- Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/55678464-a-girl-is-a-body-of-water
Invisible Cities / February: Uganda
Natalie @CuriousReader
youtube.com/channel/UCW3mZ1TvcBeVZkQhAMpQvAQ

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

- Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase (2004):
goodreads.com/book/show/27308.The_Spiral_Staircase
#1.001Women
#Rereads 2022

- Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (2020):
goodreads.com/book/show/40539017-memories-of-the-future

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

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 on 30 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