2026 Reading Challenge

Looking Back Series

17 primary works • 17 total works

Book 1

Looking Back
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4.16 · 571 Ratings · 49 Reviews · published 2010 · 2 editions
Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–excep…

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    Book 2

    Dirty Dancing
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    3.98     · 341 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions
    To a people who are blind to the lessons of the pa…

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    Book 3

    Death by Garrote
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    4.05     · 334 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 2010 · 5 editions
    Volume 3 in Anvil Publishing's series compiling Am…

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    Book 4

    Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History
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    3.74     · 129 Ratings · 23 Reviews · published 2011 · 3 editions
    "Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephant…

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    Book 5

    Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones
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    4.07     · 175 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
    150 years since Jose Rizal’s birth, half a century…

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    Book 6

    Prehistoric Philippines
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    3.82     · 204 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 2012 · 3 editions
    "This compilation of essays strays from my 19th ce…

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    Book 7

    Storm Chasers
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    3.73     · 93 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2014 · 1 edition
    This is the 7th volume of Ambeth Ocampo's "Looking…

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    Book 8

    Virgin of Balintawak
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    3.75     · 81 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2014 · 1 edition
    Philippine historical essays

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    Book 9

    Demonyo Tables: History in Artifacts
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    3.79     · 89 Ratings · 20 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    Finding a devil in a table carving means going bey…

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    Book 10

    Two Lunas, Two Mabinis
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    4.07     · 105 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 2015 · 2 editions
    “History is more complex than our textbooks make i…

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    Book 11

    Independence X6
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    3.85     · 80 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2016 · 2 editions
    “1898 reminds us that it is one thing to gain inde…

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    Book 12

    Quezon's Sukiyaki
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    4.01     · 69 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2016 · 2 editions
    "Textbook history didn't teach me much about World…

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    Book 13

    Guns of the Katipunan
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    3.89     · 57 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2017 · 1 edition
    A short Tagalog poem written by a young lady from …

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    Book 14

    Dirty Ice Cream
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    3.48     · 63 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 2020 · 1 edition
    "A history of food is fascinating not so much beca…

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    Book 15

    Martial Law
    by
    3.80     · 147 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 2021 · 1 edition
    This fifteenth compilation of articles by historia…

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    Book 16

    Queridas de Rizal
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    3.97     · 87 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 2021 · 1 edition
    "Querida, in the Philippines, refers to a mistress…

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    Book 17

    History in Lockdown
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    3.15     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
    Lockdown had forced all of us to rethink life as w…

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