Readalikes: If you enjoyed May's selection . . .

If you enjoyed Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova, then you might also like these books and films suggested by our discussion group members:

Nonfiction

• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
• Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
• The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
• House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
• The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History by Thomas Harding

Fiction

• The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
• Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning and the film with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson
• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Fiction by Janette Turner Hospital
Nonfiction and fiction by V. S. Naipaul