Literary 25

After tagged, you are supposed to write down 25 literary pieces that you cannot live without (doesn’t really matter if it’s a poem, a short story, a novel, an epic, or a play). Literary works that you can read over and over again. Works that will make Plato squirm in his deathbed, stand in front of you at 3 a.m. with his bony fingers pointed at you, telling you that you should not be affected by literature because you could end up dead in a war. Works that have inspired you to do something stupid, put your head inside an oven, go on the great American pancake tour (or great Filipino kakanin tour), or works that you can read over and over again in front of a crowd, at every book launch or reading. After, tag 25 of your literary companions, people who are also insane as you, and hope that this would spread like some goddamn bubonic plague.

1.) My Sad Republic - Eric Gamalinda
2.) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3.) Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie
4.) Etsa-puwera - Jun Cruz Reyes
5.) Ang Sandali ng mga Mata - Alvin B. Yapan
6.) Howl - Allen Ginsberg
7.) Of Being Numerous - George Oppen
8.) Mga Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran - Jose F. Lacaba
9.) The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
10.) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
11.) The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
12.) Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag - Edgardo M. Reyes
13.) Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
14.) The Animal Farm - George Orwell
15.) The Stranger - Albert Camus
16.) Pamilya - Eli R. Guieb
17.) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
18.) Balthazar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
19.) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
20.) Pinaglahuan - Faustino Aguilar
21.) Last Order sa Penguin - Chris Martinez
22.) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
23.) The Mythology Class - Arnold Arre
24.) The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
25.) Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog - Edgar Calabia Samar

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