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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,915 ratings — published 1945
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,353 ratings — published 1966
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,042 ratings — published 1994
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,620 ratings — published 1954
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,762 ratings — published 1983
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,760 ratings — published 1945
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,436 ratings — published 1970
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,676 ratings — published 1976
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,045 ratings — published 2021
Herkunft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,026 ratings — published 2019
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,974 ratings — published 1993
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,657 ratings — published 2004
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,447 ratings — published 2003
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,383 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,728 ratings — published 1941
Catch the Rabbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,369 ratings — published 2018
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,931 ratings — published 1983
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,982 ratings — published 2000
Gospođica (Bosnian Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,675 ratings — published 1945
Kissani Jugoslavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,725 ratings — published 2014
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Myths)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,931 ratings — published 2007
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,683 ratings — published 1991
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,573 ratings — published 1996
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,976 ratings — published 2011
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.07 — 595 ratings — published 1997
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,250 ratings — published 2015
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.10 — 824 ratings — published 1994
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,782 ratings — published 2008
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,890 ratings — published 1978
Nečista krv (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,241 ratings — published 1910
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,756 ratings — published 1981
Физика на тъгата (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,363 ratings — published 2011
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,930 ratings — published 2006
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,172 ratings — published 1996
Time Shelter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,257 ratings — published 2020
On the Edge of Reason (Revived Modern Classic)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,877 ratings — published 1938
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,460 ratings — published 1992
The Book of My Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,539 ratings — published 2013
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,550 ratings — published 1963
Le transizioni (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,561 ratings — published 2016
Gorski vijenac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,664 ratings — published 1847
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,704 ratings — published 1996
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,231 ratings — published 1998
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,852 ratings — published 2000
Garden, Ashes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,788 ratings — published 1965
Orlovi rano lete (Pionirska trilogija, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,305 ratings — published 1957
East of the West: A Country in Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,459 ratings — published 2011
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,319 ratings — published 2002
“I had always pictured the Albanian
peasants as a very fine picturesque race of men wearing spotless native costume, and slung about with fascinating looking daggers and curious weapons of all kinds, but the great majority of those I saw, more especially in the small towns, were
a very degenerate looking race indeed.”
― An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
peasants as a very fine picturesque race of men wearing spotless native costume, and slung about with fascinating looking daggers and curious weapons of all kinds, but the great majority of those I saw, more especially in the small towns, were
a very degenerate looking race indeed.”
― An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
“Jeste li primijetili sa kakvom ravnodušnošću svijet ispraća naše velike, naše životne odluke? Kada sahranjujete oca, u naručje uzimate dijete, kada prosite ženu ili je posmatrate kako zauvijek nestaje u dnu ulice, nikada neće prhnuti ptice, neće se čuti zvonik crkve, neće čak pasti ni jebena kiša. Surova priroda učiniće sve da vas ubijedi u nebitnost vađe sudbonosne odluke.”
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