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 Essential Books on Bulgaria
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Guidebooks...
Blue Guide: Bulgaria (Blue Guides) 1998
The Rough Guide to Bulgaria (Rough...
Lonely Planet: Bulgaria (Country and...
...and travelogues
Danube Intellectual and difficult
The Road to Freedom: Poems and Prose...
Phrasebooks
Eastern-European, Monk
Maps and Cartography
Cookery
The best introduction on the subject of food is Maria Kaneva-Johnson's
The Melting Pot : Balkan Food and Cookery (Buy from Amazon (UK)
).The book won the Langhe Ceretto Prize for culintary literature in 1997.
It was also a joint winner of the André Simon Memorial Prize.
Fiction
www.slovoto.org is a high-quality library of digitised Bulgarian literature by some of the country's
domestically most famous authors.
Nearby places...
Julian Barnes' The Porcupine bases its main character on the Bulgarian communist era leader Todor Zhivkov.
Its value as a guide to modern Bulgaria is as a help for those able to see traces of the past that has remarkably quickly been left behind.
Nikos Kazantzakis and Ivo Andric choose settings and subjects that are distinctly Greek and Yugoslav respectively
but they give introductions to historical institutions and phenomena that have survived time and are regional.
In this way, they are good guides to Bulgaria, too.
History
History of the Crusades: Vol 2
First Bulgarian Empire
The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern...
Bulgarian As a Foreign Language
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