Last books of the year & recap 2024!

Let’s recap 2024 and chat about my last reads of the year.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube

Booktube Prize: Please check out the video and sign up:    • 2025 Call for Judges  

Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
1 Radwa Ashour, The Granada Trilogy, transl. from the Arabic by Kai Haikkinen (1994):   / granada  
#historicalfiction #translatedfction #buddyread

2 Samantha Harvey, Orbitals (2023):   / orbital  
#bookerprize #literaryfiction

3 Michitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (974):   / 186608.the_gossamer_years  

4 May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriett Frein (1922):   / 1983755.the_life_and_death_of_harriett_frean  
#1001women #sandysbookclub

00:00 Intro
00:15 Granada
02:15 Gossamer Years
03:33 Harriet Frein
03:55 Orbital
04:35 Recap 2024
20:40 Outro

People and channels mentioned:
JoSmith
Heidi ‪@myreadinglife8816‬
Doris ‪@alldbooks9165‬
Sandy ‪@MsReadsAlot‬
Adam: https://www.instagram.com/mementomori...

My 1001 Women-list on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
My 1001 Women TBR on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Announcement video 1001 Bookclub:    • Bookclub - Announcement: our 2025 books!  
Sandy’s announcement video:    • 1001 Book Club Picks for 2025 - Some ...  

My 2024 reading goals:
General:
Goodreads Challenge (set at 177)
PoC-authors / Translated fiction / Nonfiction

Readathons:
Victober
Nonfiction November
Book Naturalists Book Club

Ongoing plans & projects:
1001-Books I Have to Read Before I Die
Global South / in 2024 focus on Palestine
Classics 2024
Booktube Prize: https://www.booktubeprize.org/
Call for Judges:
Women’s Prize for Fiction: https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/

Name of my YouTube channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads:   / 5497508.britta_b_hler  
Instagram:   / brittaboehler  
X, formerly twitter:   / britta_boehler  

I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
De juiste houding (2021): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
available in Dutch

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...

Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...

De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...

Crime novels under the pen name Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt)
The Posthumus Mysteries:
Lonely Graves (2014)
Lives Lost (2015)
Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...

and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...