Top 10 Best Filipino Books

For this top ten article we have some of the best Pinoy books and also some of the most popular and most talented writers in the Philippines. Some of them are Miguel Syjuco, Charlson Ong, Budjette Tan and more. Most of the books included for this top 10 are all purely describing our native country, from past history up to the present. Books are mainly short essays, stories, novel, comics, fictions and more. Now have some time to read and check out the 10 listed books below. Cheers!

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TOP : 10 Book Title : Ilustrado Author : Miguel Syjuco About : Syjuco was awarded Man Asian Literary Prize because of this novel of his in 1998. Ilustrado simply mean the enlightened one. During the Spanish times some of the most popular Ilustradoes were Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, Antonio Luna and Jose Rizal.
TOP : 9 Book Title : Tall Story Author : Candy Gourlay About : This short story is a finalist in the Guardian children's fiction prize 2014, a National Children's Book Award of the Philippines winner. The book is all about a girl named Andi who wishes a lot. It is also about two separated siblings who are joined together and mixing the Filipino culture with the British.
TOP : 8 Book Title : Blue Angel, White Shadow Author : Charlson Ong About : Ong already received awards for writing fictional books like the Palanca and Dr. Jose P. Rizal Award for Excellence. The book Blue Angel, White Shadow is a very mysterious book about fictional crime scene. Reading the book will make you feel that you are like a detective and you will never know who is the right killer up until you read it from start to end. His other books are Banyaga: A Song of War, Men of the East and Other Stories and more.
TOP : 7 Book Title : Trese Series : Murder on Balete Drive, Unreported Murders, Mass Murders, Last Seen After Midnight and Midnight Tribunal Author : Budjette Tan About : Tan is noted as the founding member of Alamat Comics. His other comic-books are the Batch 72, The Flying Phantom and Payaso. The book Trese Series includes the 5 diffirent series. And first is the Murder on Balete Drive (Trese, #1). This book intensifies ghosts and horror stories in the street of Manila, the Balete Drive wherein it is said to have white lady.Other creatures are also included like aswang and engkantos.
TOP : 6 Book Title : Tuwing Sabado Author : Russel Molina About : A Pinoy children's book author, Molina also won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature because of his book Every Saturday (Tuwing Sabado). This book is all about a boy that wakes up early every Saturday together with his mother. They prepare all their needs and take a long journey to visit an important person in a special place.

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