The Filipino culture is rich with adventure. For some of the most spine-tingling ones, check out these books written by local authors!
As people begin to renew their interest in local literature, we've decided to pay tribute to some of our country's most exciting tales. Some of them are about murder, others about monsters, but both are equally page-turning adventures that you're sure to love!
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Smaller And Smaller Circles
Written by F.H. Batacan in the 1990's, Smaller and Smaller Circles found renewed fame in 2017 after it was adapted unto film. It's won a Carlos Palanca award in 1999, and centres around two Jesuit priests on the hunt for a serial killer. In the book, the protagonists pose the question: why are there no serial killers in the Philippines? While that's difficult to answer, the book—which makes the systematic red tape and organisational failures of multiple government offices apparent—makes it evident that perhaps, we're simply not looking closely enough.