Suggested Readings for High School
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Suggested Readings
(Novels, Poems, Memoirs, Collection of Short Stories & Plays)
First Year (Philippine Literature)
A. Literature
1. Nick Joaquin- The Woman Who Had Two Navels
2. N.V.M. Gonzales- The Bamboo Dancers/ The Winds of April/ A Season of Grace
3. F. Sionil Jose- My Brother, My Executioner/ Po-on/ Tree/ Olvidon & Other Stories
4. Edilberto K. Tiempo- To be Free
5. Jessica Zafra- Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories
6. Jessica Hageddorn- Dog Eaters
11. Arundhati Roy (India)- The God of Small Things
12. Haruki Murakami (Japan)- The Wind Up Bird Chronicle/ Norwegian Wood/ Hard Boiled
Wonderland
13. Khalid Hosseini- The Kite Runner
B. African Literature
1. Kuki Gallman (Kenya)- African Nights (memoir)
2. Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)- Children of Gebelawi/ The Cairo Trilogy
B. History & Culture
3. J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)- Life & Times of Michael K/ Waiting for the Barbarians
1. Nick Joaquin- Manila, My Manila/ Culture & History/ A Question of Heroes
4. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) - Things Fall Apart/ Arrow of God/ No Longer At Ease
2. F. Landa Jocano- Filipino Prehistory/ Slum As a Way of Life
5. Ben Okri (Nigeria)- Astonishing the Gods/ Famished Road/ Arcadia
3. Renato Constantino- Veneration without Understanding
6. Albert Camus (Nigeria)- The Myth of Sisyphus/ The Stranger
4. Ileto- Pasyon at Rebolusyon
7. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)- The Conservationist
Second Year
Third Year
A. Asian Literature
1. Gao Xingjian (China)- Garlic Stories/ Soul Mountain
Latin American Literature
2. Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)- Black Book
1. Paulo Coelho (Brazil)- The Alchemist
2. Laura Esquivel (Mexico)- Like Water for Chocolate
3. Oe Kenzaburo (Japan)- The Silent Cry
4. Ha Jin (China)- Waiting
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)- One Hundred Years of Solitude/ No One Writes to
the Colonel/ Love in the Time of Cholera
5. Mishima Yukio (Japan)- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
4. Ann Patchett- Bel Canto
6. Hari Kunzru (India)- The Impressionist
5. Isabel Allende (Chile)- The House of the Spirits/ Daughters of Fortune
7. Jhumpa Lahiri (India)- Interpreter of Maladies
6. Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)- Ficciones (short stories)/ Rosendo’s Tale
8. Salman Rushdie (India)- Midnight’s Children/ Shalimar the Clown
7. Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)- Death in the Andes
9. Amy Tan (Asian- American/ China)- Joy Luck Club/ Bonesetter’s Daughters
8. Pablo Neruda (Chile)- Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
10. Azar Nafisi (Iran)- Reading Lolita in Tehran
9. Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)- The Old Gringo
Fourth Year
21. Edgar Allan Poe (UK)- A Tell Tale Heart & Other Stories
A. Anglo- Saxon/ European Literature
22. Franz Kafka (Germany)- The Metamorphosis/ The Trial
1. Jostein Gaarder (Norwey)- Sophie’s World
23. Marcel Proust (France)- Remembrance of the Things Past
2. George Orwell (UK)- Animal Farm
24. William Shakespeare (UK)- Hamlet/ Merchant of Venice
3. Antoine Saint de Exupery (UK)- The Little Prince
25. Yann Martel (UK)- Life of Pi
4. Victor Hugo (France)- Les Miserables
26. Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)- Siddhartha
5. Roddy Doyle (Ireland)- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
27. Joseph Conrad (Poland)- Heart of Darkness
6. Aldous Huxley (UK)- Brave New World
28. Jane Austen (UK)- Mansfield Park/ Pride & Prejudice
7. Charles Dickens (UK)- Great Expectations/ A Christmas Carol
29. Anthony Burgess (UK)- Clockwork Orange
8. William Golding (UK)- Lord of the Flies
30. Graham Greene (UK)- The Heart of the Matter/ The Comedians
9. Gaston Leroux (France)- Phantom of the Opera
31. Saul Bellow (Canadian- American)- Herzog/ The Adventures of Augie March/
Henderson the Rain King
10. Umberto Eco (Italy)- Foucault’s Pendulum/ Name of a Rose/ Kant & the Platypus
32. Doris Lessing (UK)- Golden Notebook
11. Henrik Ibsen (Norwey)- A Doll’s House/ An Enemy of the People (plays)
33. Jean Baudrillard (France)- Cool Memories
12. Milan Kundera (Czech Republic)- Ignorance/ The Unbearable Lightness of Being
34. W. Somerset Maugham- Of Human Bondage
13. Jasper Fforde (Norwey)- Eyre Affair/ Lost in a Good Book/ The Well of Lost Plots/
Something Rotten/ Big Something
35. Virginia Woolf (UK)- To the Lighthouse/ Mrs. Dalloway/ The Waves
14. James Joyce (Ireland)- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
36. V.S. Naipaul (Canadian- American)- In a Free State/ Magic Seeds
15. Thomas Mann (Italy)- Death in Venice
37. Lewis Carroll (UK)- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
16. Vladimir Nabokov (Russia)- Pale Fire/ Lolita
38. Ian McEwan (UK)- Amsterdam
17. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia)- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
39. Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/ Japan)- Remains of the Day
18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia)- Crime & Punishment/ Brothers Karamazov’
40. A.S. Byatt (UK)- Possession
19. Leo Tolstoy (Russia)- Anna Karenina/ Death of Ivan Ilyich
41. Aleksandr Pushkin (Russia)- The Queen of Spades (short stories)/ Eugene Onegin
20. Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)- Master & Margarita
21. T.S. Eliot- The Waste Land (poem)
B. American Literature
1. J.D. Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye/ Franny & Zooey
2. John Steinbeck- The Pearl/ Of Mice & Men/ The Grapes of Wrath
3. Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. Alice Walker- The Color Purple
6. Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
7. Arthur Miller (plays)- The Crucible/ Death of A Salesman
8. William Faulkner- The Sound & the Fury/ As I Lay Dying/ Light in August/ Go Down
Moses (Short Stories)
9. Ernest Hemingway- For Whom the Bell Tolls/ The Old Man & the Sea
10. W.E.B. Dubois- The Souls of Black Folk
11. Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Henry James- The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories
13. John Banville- The Sea
14. F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
15. Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five
16. John Irving- The World According to Garp/ The Cider House Rules
17. Walker Percy- The Moviegoer
18. Don DeLillo- Mao II/ White Noise
19. Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
20. Jack London- The Call of the Wild
22. Raymond Carver- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (short stories)
(Novels, Poems, Memoirs, Collection of Short Stories & Plays)
First Year (Philippine Literature)
A. Literature
1. Nick Joaquin- The Woman Who Had Two Navels
2. N.V.M. Gonzales- The Bamboo Dancers/ The Winds of April/ A Season of Grace
3. F. Sionil Jose- My Brother, My Executioner/ Po-on/ Tree/ Olvidon & Other Stories
4. Edilberto K. Tiempo- To be Free
5. Jessica Zafra- Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories
6. Jessica Hageddorn- Dog Eaters
11. Arundhati Roy (India)- The God of Small Things
12. Haruki Murakami (Japan)- The Wind Up Bird Chronicle/ Norwegian Wood/ Hard Boiled
Wonderland
13. Khalid Hosseini- The Kite Runner
B. African Literature
1. Kuki Gallman (Kenya)- African Nights (memoir)
2. Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)- Children of Gebelawi/ The Cairo Trilogy
B. History & Culture
3. J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)- Life & Times of Michael K/ Waiting for the Barbarians
1. Nick Joaquin- Manila, My Manila/ Culture & History/ A Question of Heroes
4. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) - Things Fall Apart/ Arrow of God/ No Longer At Ease
2. F. Landa Jocano- Filipino Prehistory/ Slum As a Way of Life
5. Ben Okri (Nigeria)- Astonishing the Gods/ Famished Road/ Arcadia
3. Renato Constantino- Veneration without Understanding
6. Albert Camus (Nigeria)- The Myth of Sisyphus/ The Stranger
4. Ileto- Pasyon at Rebolusyon
7. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)- The Conservationist
Second Year
Third Year
A. Asian Literature
1. Gao Xingjian (China)- Garlic Stories/ Soul Mountain
Latin American Literature
2. Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)- Black Book
1. Paulo Coelho (Brazil)- The Alchemist
2. Laura Esquivel (Mexico)- Like Water for Chocolate
3. Oe Kenzaburo (Japan)- The Silent Cry
4. Ha Jin (China)- Waiting
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)- One Hundred Years of Solitude/ No One Writes to
the Colonel/ Love in the Time of Cholera
5. Mishima Yukio (Japan)- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
4. Ann Patchett- Bel Canto
6. Hari Kunzru (India)- The Impressionist
5. Isabel Allende (Chile)- The House of the Spirits/ Daughters of Fortune
7. Jhumpa Lahiri (India)- Interpreter of Maladies
6. Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)- Ficciones (short stories)/ Rosendo’s Tale
8. Salman Rushdie (India)- Midnight’s Children/ Shalimar the Clown
7. Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)- Death in the Andes
9. Amy Tan (Asian- American/ China)- Joy Luck Club/ Bonesetter’s Daughters
8. Pablo Neruda (Chile)- Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
10. Azar Nafisi (Iran)- Reading Lolita in Tehran
9. Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)- The Old Gringo
Fourth Year
21. Edgar Allan Poe (UK)- A Tell Tale Heart & Other Stories
A. Anglo- Saxon/ European Literature
22. Franz Kafka (Germany)- The Metamorphosis/ The Trial
1. Jostein Gaarder (Norwey)- Sophie’s World
23. Marcel Proust (France)- Remembrance of the Things Past
2. George Orwell (UK)- Animal Farm
24. William Shakespeare (UK)- Hamlet/ Merchant of Venice
3. Antoine Saint de Exupery (UK)- The Little Prince
25. Yann Martel (UK)- Life of Pi
4. Victor Hugo (France)- Les Miserables
26. Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)- Siddhartha
5. Roddy Doyle (Ireland)- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
27. Joseph Conrad (Poland)- Heart of Darkness
6. Aldous Huxley (UK)- Brave New World
28. Jane Austen (UK)- Mansfield Park/ Pride & Prejudice
7. Charles Dickens (UK)- Great Expectations/ A Christmas Carol
29. Anthony Burgess (UK)- Clockwork Orange
8. William Golding (UK)- Lord of the Flies
30. Graham Greene (UK)- The Heart of the Matter/ The Comedians
9. Gaston Leroux (France)- Phantom of the Opera
31. Saul Bellow (Canadian- American)- Herzog/ The Adventures of Augie March/
Henderson the Rain King
10. Umberto Eco (Italy)- Foucault’s Pendulum/ Name of a Rose/ Kant & the Platypus
32. Doris Lessing (UK)- Golden Notebook
11. Henrik Ibsen (Norwey)- A Doll’s House/ An Enemy of the People (plays)
33. Jean Baudrillard (France)- Cool Memories
12. Milan Kundera (Czech Republic)- Ignorance/ The Unbearable Lightness of Being
34. W. Somerset Maugham- Of Human Bondage
13. Jasper Fforde (Norwey)- Eyre Affair/ Lost in a Good Book/ The Well of Lost Plots/
Something Rotten/ Big Something
35. Virginia Woolf (UK)- To the Lighthouse/ Mrs. Dalloway/ The Waves
14. James Joyce (Ireland)- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
36. V.S. Naipaul (Canadian- American)- In a Free State/ Magic Seeds
15. Thomas Mann (Italy)- Death in Venice
37. Lewis Carroll (UK)- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
16. Vladimir Nabokov (Russia)- Pale Fire/ Lolita
38. Ian McEwan (UK)- Amsterdam
17. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia)- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
39. Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/ Japan)- Remains of the Day
18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia)- Crime & Punishment/ Brothers Karamazov’
40. A.S. Byatt (UK)- Possession
19. Leo Tolstoy (Russia)- Anna Karenina/ Death of Ivan Ilyich
41. Aleksandr Pushkin (Russia)- The Queen of Spades (short stories)/ Eugene Onegin
20. Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)- Master & Margarita
21. T.S. Eliot- The Waste Land (poem)
B. American Literature
1. J.D. Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye/ Franny & Zooey
2. John Steinbeck- The Pearl/ Of Mice & Men/ The Grapes of Wrath
3. Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God
5. Alice Walker- The Color Purple
6. Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
7. Arthur Miller (plays)- The Crucible/ Death of A Salesman
8. William Faulkner- The Sound & the Fury/ As I Lay Dying/ Light in August/ Go Down
Moses (Short Stories)
9. Ernest Hemingway- For Whom the Bell Tolls/ The Old Man & the Sea
10. W.E.B. Dubois- The Souls of Black Folk
11. Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Henry James- The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories
13. John Banville- The Sea
14. F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
15. Kurt Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse Five
16. John Irving- The World According to Garp/ The Cider House Rules
17. Walker Percy- The Moviegoer
18. Don DeLillo- Mao II/ White Noise
19. Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
20. Jack London- The Call of the Wild
22. Raymond Carver- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (short stories)
