Alone on a Philippine island” by British writer James Hamilton-Paterson; US-published short story collection of Bienvenido Santos; “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu,” translated into English by American Japanophile Edward Seidensticker; and Giuseppe Di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard,” about the Risorgimento
1. “My Antonia” by Willa Cather
2. “Noli Me Tangere” by José Rizal
3. “El Filibusterismo” by José Rizal
4. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway
5. “How Green Was My Valley” by Richard Llewelyn
6. “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
7. “Plays” by Eugene O’Neill
8. “Iliad” by Homer
9. “Odyssey” by Homer
10. “Metamorphoses” by Ovid
11. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon
12. “A Study of History” by Arnold Toynbee
13. “Out of Africa” by Isak Dinesen
14. “Culture and History” by Nick Joaquin
15. “A Question of Heroes” by Nick Joaquin
16. “Playing with Water: Alone on a Philippine Island” by James Hamilton-Paterson
17. “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel Arguilla
18. “Without Seeing the Dawn” by Stevan Javellana
19. “Breaking the Silence” by Lourdes Montinola
20. “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
21. “The Naked and the Dead” by Norman Mailer
22. “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo
23. Collected poems by Robert Frost
24. “Monstress” by Lysley Tenorio
25. Short stories by Yukio Mishima
26. “The Martyred” by Richard Kim
27. “Delhi” by Khushwant Singh
28. “The Rebel” by Albert Camus
29. “The Plague” by Albert Camus
30. “Das Kapital” by Karl Marx
31. “The Children of Sanchez” by Oscar Lewis
32. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “The American Language” by Henry Mencken
34. “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak
35. “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
36. “The Wayward Bus” by John Steinbeck
37. “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
38. “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Alesandr Solzhenitsyn
39. Stories by Anton Chekhov
40. “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
41. Collected poems by W. H. Auden
42. “America Is in the Heart” by Carlos Bulosan
43. Stories by Gilda Cordero-Fernando
44. “Fires on the Plain” by Ooka Shohei
45. “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
46. “Fistful of Colors” by Suchen Christine Lim
47. “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche
48. “Twilight in Jakarta” by Mochtar Lubis
49. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde
50. Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
51. “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman
52. “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
53. Stories by Guy de Maupassant
54. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu
55. “The Analects” by Confucius
56. “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
57. “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
58. The Bible
59. The Yoknapatawpha novels by William Faulkner
60. “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon
61. “Faust” by Johann Goethe
62. “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
63. “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
64. Sonnets by by William Shakespeare
65. Stories by Maxim Gorky
66. “Literature and Society” by Salvador P. Lopez
67. Stories by Gregorio Brillantes
68. “In Our Image” by Stanley Karnow
69. “The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos” by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
70. “The Enigma of Japanese Power” by Karel van Wolferen
71. Soren Kierkegaard
72. Stories by Italo Calvino
73. Collected poems by Anna Akhmatova
74. “A Shropshire Lad” by A.E. Housman
75. “Hong Kong” by Jan Morris
76. “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
77. “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer
78. Collected poems by William Butler Yeats
79. “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu
80. Collected poems by Judith Wright
81. “From Here to Eternity” by James Jones
82. “Tristes Tropiques” by Claude Levi-Strauss
83. “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler
84. Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
85. “The Alexandria Quartet” by Lawrence Durrell
86. “An Area of Darkness” by V. S. Naipul
87. “Great Railway Bazaar” by Paul Theroux
88. Playboy Magazine interviews
89. “The Company” by Mary McCarthy
90. Stories by Kay Boyle
91. Poetry by Edwin Thumboo
92. Poetry by Muhammad Haji Salleh
93. “ The Lonely Crowd” by David Riesman
94. Short-story anthology, vols. 1 & 2, by Leopoldo Yabes
95. “Darkness at Noon” by Arthur Koestler
96. “Oriental Despotism” by Karl Wittfogel
97. “The Buru Quartet” by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
98. “Year Zero: A History of 1945” by Ian Buruma
99. Poetry by Cirilo Bautista
100. Stories by Bienvenido Santos
101. “Blue Angel, White Shadows” by Charlson Ong