186 books
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Balkans Books
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,052 ratings — published 1945
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,336 ratings — published 2011
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,833 ratings — published 1993
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,321 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,667 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,908 ratings — published 2000
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,067 ratings — published 2008
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,680 ratings — published 2015
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,001 ratings — published 1966
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,407 ratings — published 1992
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.07 — 577 ratings — published 1997
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.31 — 23,583 ratings — published 2021
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,590 ratings — published 1996
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,441 ratings — published 1978
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,360 ratings — published 2003
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,552 ratings — published 2004
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,586 ratings — published 1976
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,545 ratings — published 1996
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 413 ratings — published 1994
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,114 ratings — published 1996
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,678 ratings — published 1945
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.09 — 803 ratings — published 1994
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,824 ratings — published 1994
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,718 ratings — published 2000
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 329 ratings — published 1997
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.04 — 156,106 ratings — published 2008
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,216 ratings — published 2017
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,477 ratings — published 2014
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,614 ratings — published 1983
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.99 — 563 ratings — published 1996
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,170 ratings — published 2002
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,483 ratings — published 1991
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,285 ratings — published 1954
Kosovo: A Short History – An Essential Chronicle of the Balkans, Ethnic Tensions, and Political Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.06 — 457 ratings — published 1998
My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,248 ratings — published 1999
Chronicle in Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,737 ratings — published 1971
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.09 — 839 ratings — published 2020
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,193 ratings — published 1998
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,367 ratings — published 1993
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,343 ratings — published 1963
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,374 ratings — published 1981
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,856 ratings — published 2006
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,258 ratings — published 1970
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,535 ratings — published 2004
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,002 ratings — published 2000
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,750 ratings — published 2000
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans – A Journey Into War, Chaos, and Violence in a Beautiful Region on the Brink (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.62 — 482 ratings — published 1999
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,514 ratings — published 1996
The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 527 ratings — published 2016
“Our history is unpredictable.”
― The New Land
― The New Land
“You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class cheese. The next big thing is Croatia. If you haven't been here, you're a fucking idiot. I'm an idiot.”
― World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
― World Travel: An Irreverent Guide













