Hotel Iris (1996) Yoko Ogawa Florante at Laura Noli Me Tángere Jose Rizal

“Hotel Iris” — in which Ogawa Francisco Balagtas The plot revolves around Crisostomo
explores questions of obsession The story is about the love and Ibarra, mixed-race heir of a wealthy
and insecurity — is a darker, determination of the Duke clan, returning home after seven years
in Europe and filled with ideas on how
more sexually explicit book than Florante and the Princess Laura
to better the lot of his countrymen.
some of her earlier work. It tells of Albania while being pursued Striving for reforms, he is confronted
the story of 17-year-old Mari, a by the usurper Count Adolfo. by an abusive ecclesiastical hierarchy
17-year-old who works in a and a Spanish civil administration by
rundown seaside hotel, and who turns indifferent and cruel.
is drawn into a frightening affair
with a middle-aged male guest. The Thing About Thugs Tabish Khair
The Indian poet-novelist Tabish Khair (2001)
is set in Victorian England and tells the story of an Indian
The Boat to
villager who travels to London with an English captain
Redemption, Su Tong
and fascinates him with the story of his life as a
he crafts a delicate but
murderous thug.
hard-hitting tale that
deals with the pitfalls of
power and superstition in
20th century China. The
narrative tells the story of
a father-and-son duo
who shun public life for a
drifting existence. Identity
is the key theme and a
constant desire to
discover one’s identity in
an ever-changing world.

Seven Little Australians
Is a classic Australian
children's literature novel by
Ethel Turner, published in
1894. Set mainly in Sydney in
the 1880s, it relates the
adventures of the seven
mischievous Woolcot children,
their stern army father Captain
Woolcot, and faithful young
stepmother Esther.
My Brilliant Career is a 1901
novel written by Miles Franklin.
Sybylla, a headstrong girl growing
up in early 20th century Australia,
has the opportunity of marriage to
a wealthy young man whom she
loves, but rejects it in order to
maintain her independence,
preferring to take a job as
governess/housekeeper to the
family of an illiterate neighbor to
whom her father owes money.
You, the Choice of My
Parents THE WHALE RIDER BY WITI
poem by Konai Heli
IHIMAERA (FICTION)
Thaman, one woman’s A novel that was adapted into a movie
musings of her arranged in 2003, it is about Kahu, an eight-year-
marriage are laid bare over old Maori girl who craves the attention
a series of traditional of her great-grandfather, who has no
Tongan tapestries. Through attention for her because he is blinded
a series of chapters, her life by tradition and wishes for a male heir.
is animated by her inner A story of love, destiny, and whales, this
turmoil and struggles to find
is a quick but sweeping read.
her place as a woman in a
new world.
Breath by Tim Winton
On the wild, lonely coast of Western
Australia, two thrillseeking and barely
adolescent boys fall into the
enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave
surfer Sando. Together they form an
odd but elite trio. The grown man
initiates the boys into a kind of
Spartan ethos, a regimen of risk and
challenge, where they test
themselves in storm swells on remote
and shark-infested reefs, pushing
each other to the edges of
endurance, courage, and sanity