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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 — 25,068 ratings — published 1945
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,351 ratings — published 2011
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,837 ratings — published 1993
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,323 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,670 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,909 ratings — published 2000
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,080 ratings — published 2008
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,690 ratings — published 2015
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,011 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 — 579 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 — 23,641 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 — 8,450 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 — 2,556 ratings — published 2004
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,588 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 — 3,117 ratings — published 1996
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,681 ratings — published 1945
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.10 — 804 ratings — published 1994
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,832 ratings — published 1994
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,717 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 — 156,172 ratings — published 2008
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,222 ratings — published 2017
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,478 ratings — published 2014
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,613 ratings — published 1983
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 564 ratings — published 1996
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,171 ratings — published 2002
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,489 ratings — published 1991
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,291 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 — 3,253 ratings — published 1999
Chronicle in Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,742 ratings — published 1971
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.09 — 840 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 — 12,372 ratings — published 1993
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,349 ratings — published 1963
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,389 ratings — published 1981
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,857 ratings — published 2006
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,266 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
“There’s no denying the horror of the atrocities they inflicted, but they think they had just cause. That’s rubbish, of course. All you get from an eye for an eye is a lot of people stumbling around in the dark.”
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“That there could be death camps and a siege and civilians slaughtered by the thousands and thrown into mass graves on European soil fifty years after the end of the Second World War gave the war in Bosnia and the Serb campaign of killing in Kosovo their special, anachronistic interest. But one of the main ways of understanding the war crimes committed in southeastern Europe in the 1990s has been to say that the Balkans, after all, were never really part of Europe.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
