The following booklist was created for Drago by one of the professors on the Third Floor.

Dear Drago,

There is little in books so far on the situation in Kosova. Here, however, are some of the books which address that situation up through the Dayton Accords. I have given you as well some notes of the literature of this area up to today. As you know literature is my first love. Outside, that is, of very little boys.

Yours, "Father" Pat Connolly (Room 38)

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The one book to read if you are only going to read one book: "Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia" by Chuck Sudetic, W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1998

 
The best short history from the rise of Milosevic to the Dayton Accords:
"Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" by Laura Silber and Allan Little, Penguin Books, New York, 1997

 
Two more accounts of the same period, by articulate and reliable contemporary English journalists:
"The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War" by Misha Glenny, Penguin Books, New York, 1996
"A Paper House" by Mark Thompson, Hutchinson Radius, London, 1992

 
The long view by a terrific contemporary historian.
"Bosnia: A Short History" by Noel Malcolm, NYU Press, New York, 1994
"Kosovo: A Short History" by Noel Malcolm, Harper Perennial, New York, 1999

 
Two important histories that provide Albanian links.
"Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo" by Miranda VIckers, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998
"Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity" by Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer, New York University Press, New York, 1997

 
A very useful casebook up through the Dayton Accords.
"The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia" by Carole Rogel, Greenwood Press, Westport Conn., 1998

 
Great books by the masters of 20th century Balkan literature
"The Bridge on the Drina" by Ivo Andic, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1984
"Three-Arched Bridge" by Ismail Kadare, Vintage, New York, 1997
"The Tomb for Boris Davidovich" by Danilo Kis, Penguin, New York, 1980
"On the Edge of Reason" by Milorad Krleza, New Directions, New York, 1995
"The Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavic, Vintage, New York, 1988

 
Three exceptional anthologies from the former Yugoslavia
"Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia." Edited by Joanna Labon, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 1995
"Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia." Edited by Chris Agee, Bloodaxe Books/Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa., 1998
"The Horse Has Six Legs, An Anthology of Serbian Poetry." Edited and translated by Charles Simic, Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minn., 1992

 
An exceptional Albanian reader.
"Kosovo: In the Heart of the Powder Keg." Compiled and edited by Robert Elsie, East European Monographs, Boulder, Colo. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1997

 
Brilliant contemporary writings from the former Yugoslavia "Words Are Something Else" by David Albahari, Writings From an Unbound Europe Series, Northwestern University Press, Evanston Ill., 1996
"In The Hold" by Vladimir Arsenijevic, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1996
"Mocking Desire" by Drago Jancar, Writings From an Unbound Europe Series, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 1993
"Sarajevo Blues" by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, City Lights, San Francisco, 1998
"Death and the Dervish" by Mesa Selimovic, Writings From An Unbound Europe Series, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 1996
"Sprinting From the Graveyard" by Goran Simic, Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1997
"The Culture of Lies" by Dubravka Ugresic, Penn State Press, University Park, Pa., 1998

 
Distinguished Service Awards

• To Robert Elsie, for his numerous works in service to Albanian literature;
• To Charles Simic, a major American poet, for all of his translations;
• And to Andrew Wachtel for his general editorship of the Writings From an Unbound Europe Series from Northwestern University Press, and for his own "Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia," Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1998