Twenty books about the Balkans

Hi and welcome!

It is very exciting to be embarking on this journey through the Balkans via books!

These are the first twenty books that we will be reading. This list includes fiction and non-fiction, so you can pick and choose, or just join me in reading them all! While the books might not be read in the order they are listed in, the first one to be discussed is Imagining the Balkans. Quotes from the book and notes will be posted here throughout the week, with the "final" reflections shared at the end of the week and in the weekly newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter via the link at the bottom of the page!

Happy reading!

1. Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova

2. Girl at War by Sara Nović

3. Balkan as Metaphor, Between Globalization and Fragmentation by Dusan Bjelic

4. Mother Tongue

5. The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower

6. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić

7. The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920 by Charles Jelavich and Barbara Jelavich

8. The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresić

9. The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic

10. The Balkans 1804 - 2011: Nationalism, War and the Great powers by Misha Glenny

11. S. A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic

12. Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky and Andrej Grubacic

13. Wild Europe - The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers by Bozidar Ježernik

14. Sarajevo: A War Journal by Zlatko Dizdarevic

15. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan

16. The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia by Josip Glaurdic

17. Kosovo: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

18. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić

19. The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

20. Cross and Crescent in the Balkans by David Nicol