A novel about the tragic life of Lea Deutsch, a Croatian-Jewish child star from Zagreb who was murdered in the Holocaust. Jergović writes this as a pseudo-biography, mixing fact with his signature lyrical reconstruction.

The keyword "top" indicates that readers are curating their time. They don’t want just any Jergović book—they want the best. And in the last five years, Jergović has been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature (unofficially speculated) and has won the Millennium Prize for Literature. As his global fame rises, so does the demand for his digital works.

English readers are now discovering Sarajevo Marlboro through small presses like Archipelago Books. German and French translations are also appearing. Thus, the "top" PDF list for 2025-2026 looks like this:

| Rank | Title (Croatian/Bosnian) | English Translation | Best For | |------|--------------------------|---------------------|----------| | 1 | Sarajevski Marlboro | Sarajevo Marlboro | New readers | | 2 | Ruta Tannenbaum | Ruta Tannenbaum | Holocaust & Jewish history | | 3 | Dvori od oraha | The Walnut Mansion | Epic family saga lovers | | 4 | Historijska čitanka | None (essays) | Non-fiction / history fans | | 5 | Žrtva San Francisco | None yet | Short story lovers |

A later collection of short stories that moves away from the Balkans into the diaspora experience (Croatian immigrants in America, Bosnian refugees in Germany). It proves Jergović is not a one-theme writer.