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10 best books like Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog (Edgar Calabia Samar): Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology, Dusk, The Mythology Class: A Graphic Novel, The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, Bones of Contention: The Andres Bonifacio Lectures, It's a Mens World, Mga Agos sa Disyerto, Elmer, Mass Murders, Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah

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...
The Mythology Class: A Graphic Novel
AuthorArnold Arre
ISBN9715082793
The Mythology Class is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Filipino comic creator Arnold Arre. It was originally published by the author under his own Tala Comics Publishing in four issues in 1999, and was collected into a special edition by Adarna House in September of 2005.

The story...
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...
Mga Agos sa Disyerto
AuthorEfren R. Abueg
ISBN9711704889
Gaya ng pagunita ng isang guro-kritiko ukol sa kultura sa kabataang manunulat na "sulat nang sulat nang walang alam" sa kasaysayan ng panitikan ng Pilipinas (sa lahat ng wikang ginagamit sa bansa), "makabubuti sa kanila ang lumingon sa lumipas" at tuklasin ang naging papel ng "Agos sa Disyerto" sa...
Elmer
AuthorGerry Alanguilan
Elmer is a window into a world where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans, where they can now consider themselves a race no different than browns, black, or whites. Recognizing themselves to be sentient, the inexplicably evolved chickens push to attain rights...
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...
After Eden
AuthorArnold Arre
Ultimately, After Eden can be summed up in these words: “For every two people who fall in love, Adam and Eve are reborn.” - Arnold Arre, September 2002

After Eden tells the story of Celine and Jon, estranged childhood friends who bonded over nasty pranks and seesaws. A mall brawl and an automobile...
Smaller and Smaller Circles
AuthorF.H. Batacan
ISBN9715423647
Smaller and Smaller Circles is unique in the Philippine literary scene - a Pinoy detective novel, both fast-paced and intelligent, with a Jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999, it proved that...
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...
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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