Leche

10 best books like Leche (R. Zamora Linmark): Trust Exercise, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, The Book of Salt, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Monstress, Midnight Tribunal, Bones of Contention: The Andres Bonifacio Lectures, It's a Mens World, Venn Man at iba pang Kalupitan ng Kapalaran!

Trust Exercise

Author	Susan Choi
ISBN	1250309883

Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Author	Jia Tolentino
ISBN	0525510540

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Author	Emily Nussbaum
ISBN	0525508961

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...

The Book of Salt

Author	Monique Truong
ISBN	0618446885

Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Toklas...

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

Author	Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
ISBN	0472086375

Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...

Monstress

Author	Lysley Tenorio
ISBN	0062059564

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines.

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American...

Midnight Tribunal

Author	Budjette Tan
ISBN	9710545183

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...

Bones of Contention: The Andres Bonifacio Lectures

Author

Ambeth 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

Author

Bebang 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!

Author	Manix Abrera
ISBN	9710545027

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...

Ermita: A Filipino Novel

Author

F. Sionil José

Ermita as the major character in this novel, was first introduced in F. Sionil Jose's novella, "Obsession." Fabulous protitute, a woman wronged, she is now exposed in her exquisite nudity, surrounded by people like her, Eduardo Dantes, publisher, Senator Andres Bravo, General Bombilla, socialite...

Catch A Falling Star

Author	Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
ISBN	9712708772

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...

State of War

Author	Ninotchka Rosca
ISBN	9712716945

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...