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Ang Mundong Ito ay Lupa

10 best books like Ang Mundong Ito ay Lupa (Edgardo M. Reyes): Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology, Dusk, Dwellers, Midnight Tribunal, Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon, Last Seen After Midnight, The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, Bones of Contention: The Andres Bonifacio Lectures, It's a Mens World, Venn Man at iba pang Kalupitan ng Kapalaran!

Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology
AuthorPaolo Chikiamco
ISBN9719942150
Philippine mythology is full of images that ignite the imagination: gods of calamity and baldness, of cosmic time and lost things; the many-layered Skyworld, and weapons that fight their own battles; a ship that is pulled to paradise by a chain, and a giant crab that controls the tides . . . Yet too few...
Dusk
AuthorF. Sionil José
ISBN0375751440
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and...
Dwellers
AuthorEliza Victoria
Rule No. 1: You don't kill the body you inhabit.
Rule No. 2: You should never again mention your previous name.
Rule No. 3: You don't ever talk about your previous life. Ever.

Two young men with the power to take over another body inhabit the bodies and lives of brothers Jonah and Louis....
Midnight Tribunal
AuthorBudjette Tan
ISBN9710545183
In a city where the aswang control everything that is illegal
and where ancient gods seek to control everything else,
enforcing the law can be a very difficult task.

When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police normally call Alexandra Trese. Lately, it seems like others have been...
Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon
AuthorEdgar Calabia Samar
ISBN9715084745
Sa tournament ng TALA Online sa bayan ng Balanga, namatay ang lahat ng manlalaro maliban kay Janus. Sunod-sunod pa ang naging kaso ng pagkamatay ng mga kabataan sa computer shops sa iba’t-ibang panig ng bansa. Kinontak si Janus ng nagpakilalang Joey, isa rin umano sa mga nakaligtas sa paglalaro ng...
Last Seen After Midnight
AuthorBudjette Tan
ISBN9710545078
Cadena de Amor 1 star – I just did not get this. The story is about an old woman who can spread vines (that reminded me of a recent read The Ruins that I really liked) like spreading dust at Sahara Desert. There is a scene when the responding police said: “I should’ve brought the lawn mower!” Hello,...
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories
AuthorDean Francis Alfar
ISBN9712719233
The [over] price that I paid for this book is so worth it . You see, I ended up buying the last "almost damaged, but not as a sale item" copy on a kind-of high-end bookstore, because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find another copy. But DFA made that Php xx5 amount I paid for the book worth it!!

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Bones of Contention: The Andres Bonifacio Lectures
AuthorAmbeth R. Ocampo
"Ocampo effectively uses...the art of storytelling to school his audience about scrutinizing public memory as a responsibility of informed citizenship...Ocampo cites a wide range of primary sources to show his readers how to interrogate the past and to familiarize them with the problems of periodization,...
It's a Mens World
AuthorBebang Siy
Unang nagka-mens ang kapatid kong si Colay kesa sa akin. Ten years old siya noon at ako, magtu-twelve. Sabi ng mga pinsan ko, nauna raw si Colay kasi mas mataba siya at mas aktibo sa paggalaw-galaw kesa sa akin.

Naging sentro ng atensiyon si Colay noong araw na reglahin siya. Lahat kami, nasa labas...
Venn Man at iba pang Kalupitan ng Kapalaran!
AuthorManix Abrera
ISBN9710545027
I am now running out of what else to say about this series.

One morning though, I got a copy of one of our broadsheets here in the Philippines, The Philippine Daily Inquirer and saw that this comic strip is serialized there. I knew that all along but since I have not been buying newspapers anymore...
Mass Murders
AuthorBudjette Tan
ISBN9719456906
12 midnight at Metro Manila.

Try to remain calm if you suddenly spot a tikbalang speeding down EDSA or a manananggal swooping across the Makati skyline. While partying at the Fort, never ever let the enkanto at the bar buy you a drink.

Yet, there are deadlier things than walk the streets...
Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah
AuthorCarlo Vergara
Zsazsa Zaturnnah tells the story of Ada, a cynical resident of a small provincial town, who gains superhuman abilities through a stone that falls from the heavens. With the ability to transform into the voluptuous and powerful Zaturnnah, Ada defends his hometown from dangerous otherworldly threats.

Adding...
Catch A Falling Star
AuthorCristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
ISBN9712708772
They say that childhood memories are really meant to guide us during our adulthood. That they can help predict our behaviors as adult. If these are true, then I am not surprised that the author of this book is one of the most respected writers and literature professors in the country. She is Dr. Cristina...
Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog
AuthorEdgar Calabia Samar
ISBN9712720666
"Binubuksan ng nobelang ito ang panibagong yugto sa pagsusulat ng nobela. Malayo na ito sa tradisyon ng mga romantisista at modernista, na laging mabigat sa dibdib ang paglalahad ng naratibo. Sa akdang ito wala nang imposible sa materyal at maging sa pamamaraan ng paglalahad nito. Tinatangka nitong...
State of War
AuthorNinotchka Rosca
ISBN9712716945
An endless festival amidst an endless war is the central image of this stunning novel about the Philippines of the Marcos era, a time of brutality, treachery, and betrayed passion.

As the novel opens, our focus, in the Book of Acts, is on three young people—Eliza Hansen, Adrian Banyaga, and...
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