Academe Nostalgia

Holy Week's a time to contemplate about life. Since people are bored to death and showing off their brain libraries on Facebook, I've remembered bumping into a Bachelor's in Creative Writing reading checklist for UP eons ago and decided to measure how much I've read in this messy Philippine literary canon.

Fiction

(Novels and Short Stories)
Javellana, Stevan - Without Seeing the Dawn (novel) read, unfinished
Joaquin, Nick - The Woman Who Had Two Navels (novel)
Santos, Bienvenido - The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor (novel)
Gonzales, NVM - A Season of Grace (novel)

Joaquin, Nick - Choose 3 stories from either
Prose and Poems
Tropical Gothic

Santos, Bienvenido - 3 stories from You Lovely People or The Day the Dancers Came or Brother My Brother
Gonzalez, NVM - 3 stories from Bread of Salt or Look Stranger on this Island Now or Children of the Ash-Colored Loam
Arcellana, Francisco - 5 stories from The Francisco Arcellana Sampler
Alfon, Estrella - 3 short stories from Magnificence or Stories
Jose, F. Sionil - 3 short stories from Waywaya or Platinum
Benitez, Paz Marquez - 2 stories
Sulit, Loreto Paras - 2 stories
Latorena, Paz - 2 stories
Arguilla, Manuel - 4 short stories from How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
Tiempo, Edith - Blade of Fern (novel)read, unfinished
Polotan, Kerima - The Hand of the Enemy (novel)
Bulosan, Carlos - America is in the Heart (autobiography/novel) read, unfinished
Brillantes, Gregorio - 5 short stories from The Distance to Andromeda and the Apollo Centennial
Fernando, Gilda Cordero - 5 short stories from Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker or A Wilderness of Sweets (both books are re-issued as Story Collection)
Polotan, Kerima - 3 stories from Stories
Rosa, Ninotchka - 3 stories from Bitter Country or Monsoon Collection
Hidalgo, Cristina - 3 stories from either
Ballad of a Lost Season
Tales for a Rainy Night
Where Only the Moon Rages
Rosca, Ninotchka - State of War (novel)read, unfinished
Yuson, Alfred - The Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe (novel)
Castillo, Erwin - The Firewalkers (both the nouvella and the stories included in this book)
Hidalgo, Cristina - Recuerdo (novel)
Dalisay, Jose V. - Killing Time in a Warm Place (novel)
Gamalinda, Eric - Confessions of a Volcano (novel)
Dalisay, Jose - 3 stories from Old Timer or Sarcophagus or Penmanship
Gamalinda, Eric - 3 stories from Peripheral Visions
Ong, Charlson - 5 stories from Men of the East or Woman of Amkaw or Conversion

Enriquez, Antonio - 3 stories from Spots On Their Wings or The Night I Cry
Casper, Lindy Ty - 3 stories from Common Continent or Hazards of Distance
Dayrit, Joy - 3 stories from The Walk

2 stories each from the following writers - 10 stories total
Rotor, Arturo - The Wound and the Scar or The Men Who Play God
Tiempo, Edith - Abide, Joshua
Ford, Aida Rivera - The Chiefest Mourner
Ayala, Tita Lacambra - Pieces of String
Torrevillas, Rowena Tiempo - Among the Willows

Not part of the original reading list, but Manuel decided to put it in anyway:
Sitoy, Lakambini - Mens Rea and Other Stories

Essays and Non-Fiction Narratives

2 selections each by 10 of these writers - 20 essays total
Lopez, S.P. - Literature and Society
Icasiano, F.B. - Horizons From My Nipa Hut
Cristobal, Adrian - Pasquinades
Ventura, Sylvia - Ragtime in Kamuning
de Quiros, Conrad - Flowers from the Rubble or Dance of the Dunces
Nakpil, Carmen Guerrero - Woman Enough or A Question of Identity
Polotan, Kerima - Author's Choice or Adventures in a Forgotten Country
Mayuga, Sylvia - Spy In My Own Country or Essays For A Decade
Zafra, Jessica - Twisted or Womanagerie or Twisted Too
Dalisay, Jose Y. - The Best of Barfly

Hidalgo, Cristina
I Remember
Five Years in a Forgotten Land
Skyscrapers Celadon and Kimchi
The Path of the Heart

Garcellano, Rosario - Mean Streets

Ocampo, Ambeth
Bonifacio's Bolo
Aguinaldo's Breakfast
Mabini's Ghost

Abad, Gemino - State of Play

Drama

Joaquin, Nick - Portrait of the Artist As Filipino

One of the following plays:
Guerrero, Wilfrido Ma. - Condemned; Wanted A Chaperone
Alfon, Estrella - Forever Witches
Juan, Anton - Death in the Form of a Rose
Florentino, Alberto - The World is an Apple
Nolledo, Wilfredo - Turn Red The Sea

Poetry

Three poems by each poet - a total of 153 poems
Glora, Angela Manalang
Tarrosa-Subido, Trinidad
Zulueta da Costa, Rafael
Villa, Jose Garcia
Santos, Bienvenido
Daguio, Amador
de Zuñiga, Oscar
Ilio, Dominador
Arcellana, Francisco
Viray, Manuel
Joaquin, Nick
Tiempo, Edith
Demetillo, Ricaredo
Angeles, Carlos
Moreno, Virginia
Hufana, Alejandrino
Francia, Hilario
Ayala, Tita Lacambra
Lumbera, Bienvenido
Torres, Emmanuel
Dimalanta, Ophelia
Tinio, Rolando
San Juan, Epiphanio
Guillermo, Gelacio
Espinao, Federico Licsi
Abad, Gemino H.
Bautista, Cirilo F.
Cabalquinto, Luis
Pena-Reyes, Myrna
Alunan, Merlie
Lanot, Marra
Yuson, Alfred
Lacaba, Jose,
Francia, Luis
An Lim, Jaime
Garcellano, Edel
Salanga, Alfrredo Salanga
Lacaba, Emmanuel
Torrevillas, Rowena
de Ungria, Ricardo
Kilates, Marne
Sunico, Ramon
Evasco, Marjorie
Banzon, Isabella
Cortes, Fidelito
Gamalinda, Eric
Arcellano, Juaniyo
Lim, Fatima
Aguilar-Carino, Maria Luisa
Remoto, Danton
Garcia, J. Neil