23 books
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Balkan Books
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,426 ratings — published 1945
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,159 ratings — published 1966
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,930 ratings — published 1994
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,440 ratings — published 1954
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,675 ratings — published 1983
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,712 ratings — published 1945
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,351 ratings — published 1970
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,636 ratings — published 1976
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,910 ratings — published 1993
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.31 — 24,989 ratings — published 2021
Herkunft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,694 ratings — published 2019
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,402 ratings — published 2003
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,346 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,704 ratings — published 1941
Catch the Rabbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,097 ratings — published 2018
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,871 ratings — published 1983
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,936 ratings — published 2000
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,603 ratings — published 2004
Gospođica (Bosnian Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,638 ratings — published 1945
Kissani Jugoslavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,469 ratings — published 2014
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Myths)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,874 ratings — published 2007
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,538 ratings — published 1996
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,618 ratings — published 2011
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,581 ratings — published 1991
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.10 — 811 ratings — published 1994
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.06 — 586 ratings — published 1997
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,902 ratings — published 2015
Nečista krv (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,176 ratings — published 1910
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,354 ratings — published 2008
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,548 ratings — published 1981
Физика на тъгата (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,689 ratings — published 2011
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,612 ratings — published 1978
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,883 ratings — published 2006
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,137 ratings — published 1996
Time Shelter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.74 — 29,754 ratings — published 2020
On the Edge of Reason (Revived Modern Classic)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,811 ratings — published 1938
The Book of My Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,514 ratings — published 2013
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,429 ratings — published 1992
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,427 ratings — published 1963
Le transizioni (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,425 ratings — published 2016
Gorski vijenac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,610 ratings — published 1847
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,627 ratings — published 1996
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,799 ratings — published 2000
Garden, Ashes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,756 ratings — published 1965
Orlovi rano lete (Pionirska trilogija, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,275 ratings — published 1957
East of the West: A Country in Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,424 ratings — published 2011
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,255 ratings — published 2002
“Na to je gucnuo, pa se još gore mrgodio, kao da je optuženik koji sluša presudu u Haagu, i stresao se kao pokisli pas kad uđe u kuću- što oduvijek na Balkanu znači samo jedno- da je rakija dobra i jaka.”
― Freelander
― Freelander
“Then Drago began the deliberate, precise, business-like process of killing. A knee-buckling burst of fire and flash laid waste to men and material within seconds. A Panhard vehicle to Silva’s left simply disappeared in an explosion that spraying metal parts willy-nilly in every direction in a spread so thorough that Drago thought they were under fire, and he yelled at his men to respond. Another blast destroyed a six-wheeled reconnaissance vehicle, but it didn’t break it apart; it simply expanded as if swollen or bloated, like an air mattress or inflatable toy, though it still had weight and quickly collapsed over its own suspension. Some trucks were overturned; a Jeep flipped end-over-end. None were left unscathed. In short order, what had been ten or twelve vehicles were reduced to a single steaming and smoking pile of metal.”
― Magenta
― Magenta













