My Top 101 Books (not necessarily in order)

COLLECTION of more recent stories by Gregorio Brillantes; “Playing with Water:
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

 

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