Britta Böhler | Women's Prize: Final 5 reviews & ranking @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my progress with the Women's Prize for Fiction

Other videos about the WPF 2022:
My Longlist-reaction-video: youtube.com/watch?v=HGpdChu1FyA&t=6s
My 1st review video:
(Sorrow & Bliss / The Exhibitionist / The Bread the Devil Knead)
My 2nd review video: youtube.com/watch?v=BpkcL0sTDrc&t=0s
(The Sentence / The Final Revival of Opal & Nev / The Book of Form & Emptiness / Careless)
My 3rd review video: youtube.com/watch?v=atMlTgguq24
(Build Your House Around My Body / Flamingo / The Paper Palace / This One Sky Day )

Ranking #1-#6 starts at: 17:22
Ranking #7 -16:
7. Careless 3.5*
8. The Book of Form & Emptiness 3.5
9. Opal & Nev 3*
10. Flamingo 2.5*
11. Magic Circle 2.5*
12. Sorrow & Bliss 2.5*
13. Island of Missing Trees 2*
14. Remote Sympathy 2*
15. The Exhibitionist 2*
16. The Paper Palace 1.5*

Women Prize Website: womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
Shortlist announced April 27th
Winner announced June 15th

The 16 longlisted books in alphabetical order of the author:
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini (May 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58203799-the-bread-the-devil-knead

Salt Lick by Lulu Allison (Sept. 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58861486-salt-lick

Careless by Kirsty Capes (May 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/52900615-careless

Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey (May 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/53362504-remote-sympathy

Flamingo by Rachel Elliott (Feb 2022): goodreads.com/book/show/60196112-flamingo

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Nov 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56816904-the-sentence

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller (Sept. 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56098213-the-paper-palace

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith (July 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/55656269-build-your-house-around-my-body

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (Feb 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/49110165-sorrow-and-bliss

The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson (March 2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59547529-the-exhibitionist

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Sept. 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/57004637-the-book-of-form-and-emptiness

This One Sky Day by Leone Ross (April 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/54382354-this-one-sky-day

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Aug 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56587382-the-island-of-missing-trees

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (May 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/54976986-great-circle

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (April 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/55631360-the-final-revival-of-opal-nev

Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (July 2021): goodreads.com/book/show/39314725-creatures-of-passage

Connect with me:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

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 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