The Bamboo Dancers, N.V.M. Gonzalez, 1959
- Philippines, #13
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read December 2017
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Recommended for: Zooey Glass in Manila
The Bamboo Dancers
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America Is in the Heart
America Is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan, 1946
- Philippines, #11
- Paperback, received as a gift
- Read January 2018
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: enthusiastic communists
Shadow and Solitude: A play in one stupid act
Solo Entre las Sombras (Shadow and Solitude), Claro M. Recto, 1917
- Philippines, #9
- Print-on-demand paperback, received as a gift
- Read November 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: False dichotomists
Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940
Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940, Leopoldo Y. Yabes, ed., 1975
- Philippines, #8
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read December 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: completists
Noli Me Tangere: Yesterday’s news
Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal, 1887
- Philippines, #7
- paperback, received as a gift
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Harriet Beecher Stowe fan clubs
Cuentos Filipinos: Colonialism and condescension
Cuentos Filipinos, Jose Montero y Vidal, 1883, translated by Renan Prado
- Philippines, #5
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Miss Eleanor Lavish
Florante at Laura: Two guys crying in a forest, essentially
The History of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania: Adapted from some “historical pictures” or paintings of what happened in early times in the Greek Empire, and were set to rhyme by one delighting in Tagalog verse, Francisco Balagtas, 1861
- Philippines, #4
- Read online
- Read: August 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: imprecise Romanticists and their kick-ass girlfriends
Darangen: too epic for me
Darangen: in original Maranao verse with English translation, vol. I, Anon. (oral epic), transcribed by Hadji Lawa Cali et al., translated by Ma. Delia Coronel, 1986 (original composition sometime before the 14th century)
- Philippines, #1
- Borrowed from San Francisco Public Library (via interlibrary loan)
- Read October 2017
- Rating 3/5
- Recommended for: scholars, princesses in towers, and other people with lots of time on their hands
Potions and Paper Cranes: a bunch of bad things happen to a bunch of unlikeable people
Potions and Paper Cranes, Lan Fang, 2013
- Indonesia, #21
- Kindle edition, $10
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: an additional perspective on race and gender in World War II-era Indonesia (but only if you’ve already read everything else)
Daughters of Papua: Life’s a bitch. You know the rest.
Daughters of Papua, Anindita S. Thayf, 2009
- Indonesia, #18
- Borrowed from SF public library (via Link+)
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: People who found Bambi just a bit too lighthearted
Around the World in 2000 Books 