Every spare minute I have these days I've been reading the novel the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wunderkind-Novel-Nikolai-Grozni/dp/1451616910/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323923414&amp;sr=8-1-spell" target="_blank">Wonderkind by Nikolai Grozni </a>on my kindle. I haven't had a lot of spare minutes so I've only read a 1/3 of the book. But it's good. I keep thinking about the main character and life in Bulgaria right before the changes. I'd heard about the book earlier this year but it was Petya writing about the book at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wunderkind-Novel-Nikolai-Grozni/dp/1451616910/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323923414&amp;sr=8-1-spell" target="_blank">The Migrant Bookclub</a> that made me buy and start reading the novel.

So for whatever reason, my slight (or not-so-slight) obsession with this book got me thinking about what books I'd buy for my friends for Christmas. You know, <em>if</em> I bought books for my friends and I that guess is contingent on having friends (which I have--I just don't usually buy them books). I am also not convinced that everyone needs to be such a single-track reader. Sometimes I feel like I am in the process of reading all of Bulgaria (or at least the Bulgaria that's been translated into English).

Anyhow which Bulgarian novels should you buy for your nearest and dearest (or simply for yourself) this year? Well I am making an on-going list on the tab at the top of my blog, maybe you know the one: <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/works-cited/" target="_blank">Works Cited</a>--but here are a few of my favorites.
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	<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wunderkind-Novel-Nikolai-Grozni/dp/1451616910/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323923414&amp;sr=8-1-spell" target="_blank">East of the West</a> by Miroslav Penkov. My favorite stories are</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wunderkind-Novel-Nikolai-Grozni/dp/1451616910/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323923414&amp;sr=8-1-spell" target="_blank">Wonderkind</a> by Nikolai Grozni</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mitko-Miami-University-Press-Fiction/dp/145076214X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323924480&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Mitko</a> by Garth Greenwell</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Solo-Rana-Dasgupta/dp/0547397089/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Solo</a> by Rana Dasgupta</li>
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