Books about the Balkans

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Fiction and non-fiction books about The Balkans, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Southeastern Europe, and their wars
Based on tag
Balkans
1
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
11,109 members
525 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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2
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
23,151 members
793 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
norabelle414
3
The City and the City
by China Miéville
7,178 members
392 reviews
4
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4
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
6,020 members
354 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
norabelle414
5
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
3,035 members
259 reviews
4.1
Member
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6
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,800 members
68 reviews
4.2
Member
norabelle414
7
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
2,125 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
norabelle414
8
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
by Rebecca West
1,938 members
28 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
9
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
1,842 members
33 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
1,278 members
33 reviews
4.1
Member
norabelle414
11
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
by Anna Comnena
953 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic
552 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
norabelle414
13
S: A Novel About the Balkans
by Slavenka Drakulic
493 members
10 reviews
4
Member
norabelle414
14
Café Europa: Life After Communism
by Slavenka Drakulic
454 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
norabelle414
15
The Great Fortune
by Olivia Manning
288 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
norabelle414
16
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
by Slavenka Drakulic
222 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
norabelle414
17
The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War
by Slavenka Drakulic
170 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
norabelle414
18
The Spoilt City
by Olivia Manning
155 members
10 reviews
4
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19
Friends and Heroes
by Olivia Manning
141 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
by Robert D. Kaplan
1,773 members
31 reviews
3.8
21
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999
by Misha Glenny
932 members
12 reviews
4.1
22
The Balkans: A Short History
by Mark Mazower
705 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
23
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
635 members
10 reviews
3.9
24
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
by Misha Glenny
593 members
5 reviews
3.8
25
Kosovo: A Short History
by Noel Malcolm
422 members
6 reviews
3.9
26
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
by Simon Winchester
282 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
27
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Tim Judah
278 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
28
Bosnia: A Short History
by Noel Malcolm
382 members
1 review
4.2
29
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber
441 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
30
A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
2,153 members
61 reviews
3.8
31
Eastern Approaches
by Fitzroy Maclean
824 members
20 reviews
4.1
32
Bosnian Chronicle
by Ivo Andrić
595 members
12 reviews
4
33
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
by Joe Sacco
1,181 members
33 reviews
½ 4.4
34
My War Gone By, I Miss It So
by Anthony Loyd
496 members
16 reviews
4.2
35
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
by Mark Mazower
672 members
11 reviews
4.1
36
Girl at War
by Sara Novic
1,090 members
58 reviews
4.1
37
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
by Peter Maass
365 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
38
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
795 members
19 reviews
4.1
39
Spies of the Balkans
by Alan Furst
1,138 members
41 reviews
3.8
40
Kosovo: War and Revenge
by Tim Judah
126 members
1 review
4
41
The Balkan Wars
by Andre Gerolymatos
112 members
1 review
½ 3.5
44
To End a War
by Richard Holbrooke
301 members
4 reviews
3.9
45
History of the Balkans: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Ferdinand Schevill
121 members
1 review
½ 3.4
46
Imagining the Balkans
by Maria N. Todorova
131 members
½ 4.4
47
History of the Balkans, Vol. 2: Twentieth Century
by Barbara Jelavich
90 members
½ 3.6
48
The Balkans Since 1453
by L. S. Stavrianos
83 members
3 reviews
4
49
High Albania
by Edith Durham
147 members
4.1
50
Danube
by Claudio Magris
1,353 members
25 reviews
3.9
51
History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Barbara Jelavich
86 members
3.8
52
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War
by Susan L. Woodward
82 members
2.8
53
Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys
by Dervla Murphy
59 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
54
Between the Woods and the Water
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
1,704 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
55
Death and the Dervish
by Meša Selimović
605 members
14 reviews
4.2
56
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
by Joe Sacco
478 members
14 reviews
3.8
57
Sarajevo Marlboro
by Miljenko Jergovic
305 members
5 reviews
3.9
58
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by Åsne Seierstad
283 members
7 reviews
3.8
59
Three Elegies for Kosovo
by Ismaïl Kadaré
223 members
8 reviews
3.8
60
The Turkish Gambit
by Boris Akunin
1,310 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
61
Broken April
by Ismaïl Kadaré
819 members
33 reviews
3.9
62
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
by Danilo Kiš
801 members
11 reviews
4
63
The Ministry of Pain
by Dubravka Ugrešić
456 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
64
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
by Kapka Kassabova
386 members
16 reviews
4.1
65
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
by David Rohde
163 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
67
Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country
by John R. Lampe
80 members
1 review
4.2
68
The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920
by Charles Jelavich
77 members
1 review
3.9
69
The Skeleton Road
by Val McDermid
705 members
44 reviews
½ 3.6
70
Chronicle in Stone
by Ismaïl Kadaré
650 members
27 reviews
3.9
71
Where You Come From
by Saša Stanišić
394 members
14 reviews
4
72
The Three-Arched Bridge
by Ismaïl Kadaré
386 members
16 reviews
3.9
73
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat
by Wesley K. Clark
267 members
1 review
½ 3.7
74
Virtual War
by Michael Ignatieff
173 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
75
De herberg met het hoefijzer
by A. den Doolaard
152 members
2 reviews
3.1
76
The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism
by Dennis P. Hupchick
76 members
3 reviews
2.9
77
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans
by Dennis P. Hupchick
73 members
3.8
78
Balkan Odyssey
by David Owen
72 members
1 review
3
79
The Palace of Dreams
by Ismaïl Kadaré
738 members
24 reviews
3.9
80
The General of the Dead Army
by Ismaïl Kadaré
598 members
13 reviews
3.8
81
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley
227 members
5 reviews
4
82
Montenegro
by Starling Lawrence
165 members
4 reviews
3.2
83
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia
by Brian Hall
139 members
3.8
84
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
by Marcus Tanner
127 members
3.8
85
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
by Kapka Kassabova
118 members
3 reviews
4.1
86
Tito: A Biography
by Phyllis Auty
77 members
3.1
87
Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality On The Balkan Battlefields
by David Fromkin
70 members
½ 2.7
88
Hearts Grown Brutal : Sagas of Sarajevo
by Roger Cohen
60 members
1 review
½ 4.7
89
Night Soldiers
by Alan Furst
1,698 members
54 reviews
3.9
90
The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
1,355 members
52 reviews
½ 3.5
91
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words {Female Edition}
by Milorad Pavić
1,079 members
17 reviews
3.8
92
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by Saša Stanišić
549 members
21 reviews
½ 3.7
93
The File on H.
by Ismaïl Kadaré
367 members
13 reviews
3.9
94
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by Tim Butcher
273 members
6 reviews
4.2
95
Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo
by Victoria Clark
127 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
96
The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania
by Robert Carver
118 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
97
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War
by Janine Di Giovanni
97 members
4 reviews
3.2
98
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Tim Judah
73 members
1 review
½ 3.5
99
Memoir of the Bobotes
by Joyce Cary
67 members
½ 3.6
100
Bradt Guide Serbia
by Laurence Mitchell
67 members
1 review
½ 3.5