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Philippines Books
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Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
by (shelved 121 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,967 ratings — published 1887
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,510 ratings — published 2023
Insurrecto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,831 ratings — published 2018
Patron Saints of Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,686 ratings — published 2019
In the Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,194 ratings — published 2015
America Is Not the Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,934 ratings — published 2018
Smaller and Smaller Circles (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,467 ratings — published 2002
Ilustrado (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.36 — 2,714 ratings — published 2008
When the Elephants Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,900 ratings — published 2002
El Filibusterismo (Noli Me Tangere, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,597 ratings — published 1891
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,944 ratings — published 1946
Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,462 ratings — published 1984
Dogeaters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,177 ratings — published 1990
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 ratings — published 1989
A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.93 — 599 ratings — published 2010
How to Stand Up to a Dictator (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,643 ratings — published 2022
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.53 — 79,682 ratings — published 2021
Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,229 ratings — published 2018
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.26 — 40,243 ratings — published 2001
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.14 — 575 ratings — published 2017
History of the Filipino People
by (shelved 21 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,113 ratings — published 1960
Monstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,873 ratings — published 2012
Bibliolepsy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.21 — 938 ratings — published 1997
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,705 ratings — published 1999
Gun Dealers' Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.82 — 636 ratings — published 2010
Fairest: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,984 ratings — published 2020
Manila Noir (Akashic Noir)
by (shelved 17 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,011 ratings — published 2013
The Tesseract (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.55 — 10,938 ratings — published
La Tercera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.20 — 178 ratings — published 2023
Dekada '70 (Ang Orihinal at Kumpletong Edisyon)
by (shelved 16 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,761 ratings — published 1984
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,105 ratings — published 2018
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.02 — 578 ratings — published 2016
The Woman Who Had Two Navels (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,534 ratings — published 1961
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by (shelved 14 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.86 — 395 ratings — published 1994
Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.24 — 335 ratings — published 1994
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.39 — 774 ratings — published 2018
Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.42 — 217 ratings — published
Tall Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,106 ratings — published 2010
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,963 ratings — published 1999
State of War (Newsprint)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.04 — 759 ratings — published 1988
Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,870 ratings — published 1990
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,562 ratings — published 2019
The Body Papers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,100 ratings — published 2019
The Indolence of the Filipino (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.13 — 491 ratings — published 1890
When We Had Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,928 ratings — published 2022
Dwellers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,200 ratings — published 2014
My Fate According to the Butterfly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.09 — 586 ratings — published 2019
The Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 3.49 — 41,371 ratings — published 2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,210 ratings — published 2019
Everlasting Nora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as philippines)
avg rating 4.07 — 871 ratings — published 2018
“The US colonization of the Philippines was brutal, but it did not end with formal independence. The Philippines has existed in a state of what Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's independence leader, referred to as 'neocolonialism': a condition in which a state is, 'in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty,' but 'in reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from the outside.' This was a familiar situation for many newly independent nations.
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For decades, the development of the Philippines was hampered by collusion between the US, international institutions, domestic capitalists, and a corrupt political class, which together deprived Filipinos of basic human rights to ensure the country would remain a haven for international capital. Bello himself was referred to the situation faced by the Philippines after independence as neocolonial.”
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
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For decades, the development of the Philippines was hampered by collusion between the US, international institutions, domestic capitalists, and a corrupt political class, which together deprived Filipinos of basic human rights to ensure the country would remain a haven for international capital. Bello himself was referred to the situation faced by the Philippines after independence as neocolonial.”
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
“That was no insurrection, Colonel. We were fighting a war against your enemy. You said you came to help us. In the name of democracy--to free ourselves from tyrannical Spain. Instead, you invaded. In the treaty of Paris you paid twenty million dollars to buy our islands from the already vanquished Spain. We resisted you. Your army killed six hundred thousand Filipinos from 1899 to 1902, a war worse than Vietnam. That was no insurrection, Colonel. That was our war of independence.”
― Gun Dealers' Daughter
― Gun Dealers' Daughter
