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Balkans Books
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,852 ratings — published 1945
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,962 ratings — published 1993
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,939 ratings — published 2011
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,374 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,725 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,978 ratings — published 2000
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,722 ratings — published 2008
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,190 ratings — published 2015
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.07 — 595 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,456 ratings — published 1992
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,327 ratings — published 1966
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,695 ratings — published 1996
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,784 ratings — published 2021
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,852 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 — 2,441 ratings — published 2003
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,588 ratings — published 1996
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,650 ratings — published 2004
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,668 ratings — published 1976
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 415 ratings — published 1994
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,755 ratings — published 1945
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,028 ratings — published 1994
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.10 — 822 ratings — published 1994
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,171 ratings — published 1996
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,841 ratings — published 2000
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.81 — 336 ratings — published 1997
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,750 ratings — published 1983
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.04 — 158,391 ratings — published 2008
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,314 ratings — published 2002
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 582 ratings — published 1996
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,358 ratings — published 2017
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,505 ratings — published 2014
Kosovo: A Short History – An Essential Chronicle of the Balkans, Ethnic Tensions, and Political Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 472 ratings — published 1998
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,668 ratings — published 1991
My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,337 ratings — published 1999
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,608 ratings — published 1954
Chronicle in Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,900 ratings — published 1971
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,562 ratings — published 1993
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.09 — 872 ratings — published 2020
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,230 ratings — published 1998
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,535 ratings — published 1963
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,734 ratings — published 1981
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,922 ratings — published 2006
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,766 ratings — published 2000
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,565 ratings — published 2004
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,026 ratings — published 2000
Bolla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,511 ratings — published 2019
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,431 ratings — published 1970
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 — 489 ratings — published 1999
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 — 537 ratings — published 2016
“English persons, therefore, of humanitarian and reformist disposition constantly went out to the Balkan Peninsula to see who was in fact ill-treating whom, and, being by the very nature of their perfectionist faith unable to accept the horrid hypothesis that everybody was ill-treating everybody else, all came back with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer.”
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“Our history is unpredictable.”
― The New Land
― The New Land
