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The Once and Future King, T.H. White
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Anecdotes of Destiny, Isak Dinesen
The Stories of John Cheever
The Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Outsider, Albert Camus
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Without Feathers, Woody Allen
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
A Boy and His Dog, Harlan Ellison
Isabelo’s Archive, Resil Mojares
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, Georges Simenon
Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan
A Sport and A Pastime, James Salter
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories by Saki, H.H. Munro
The Jeeves stories, P.G. Wodehouse
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stories of Anton Chekhov
The Angel Esmeralda, Don DeLillo
The Smiley novels, John LeCarre
The Little Drummer Girl, John LeCarre
Watchmen, Alan Moore
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St. Aubyn
Another Marvelous Thing, Laurie Colwin
Miss Garnet’s Angel, Salley Vickers
Our Story Begins, New and Selected Stories, Tobias Wolff
Any Human Heart, William Boyd
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
From Hell, Alan Moore
Love In A Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Minotaur, Benjamin Tammuz
The Separation, Christopher Priest
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
The Decameron, Boccacio
Jesus’s Son, Denis Johnson
The Book of J, David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom
Plays, Tom Stoppard
Utos ng Hari at Iba Pang Kuwento, Jun Cruz Reyes
The Ogre, Michel Tournier
Burning Your Boats, The Collected Short Stories, Angela Carter
HHhH, Laurent Binet
Don’t Look Now, Daphne Du Maurier
Light Years, James Salter
Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen
Noli me tangere and El Filibusterismo, Jose Rizal
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
100 Selected Poems, e.e. cummings
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Amphigorey (series), Edward Gorey
Night Soldiers, Alan Furst
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer
The Oresteia, Aeschylus
Complete Poems of T.S. Eliot
Ripley’s Game, Patricia Highsmith
The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
Cubao: Pagkagat ng Dilim, Tony Perez
Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
Numbers in the Dark, Italo Calvino
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund De Waal
For Keeps, 30 Years at the Movies, Pauline Kael
Memoirs of An Anti-Semite, Gregor von Rezzori
Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
The Stones of Florence, Mary McCarthy
Into the Heart of Borneo, Redmond O’Hanlon
America’s Boy, James Hamilton Paterson
Longitude, Dava Sobel
Rubicon, Tom Holland
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, Jan Morris
In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Philip Gourevitch
The Drunkard’s Walk, Leonard Mlodinow
Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
The Forger’s Spell, Edward Dolnick
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks
My Struggle vol. 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard

*titles in blue were not on the last list

Illustrations from Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Harry Clarke. Images from Wikimedia Commons.

This month’s LitWit Challenge: Take any well-known fairy tale (Cinderella, Rumpelstiltzkin, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, etc) and write it your way, set in the present-day, yes the princesses can be gay. You may change the ending. You may alter the plot and setting as long as it the basic elements of the original remain recognizable.

500-word minimum, 2,000-word maximum. You may submit as many entries as you like. Deadline: 12 noon on 15 May 2014.

The prize: Vampires in the Lemon Grove—short stories by Karen Russell, Pantone notebook with squared pages, and a set of metallic gel pens. The blasted things are addictive—you start doodling with them at lunch, and before you know it it’s 3am and you’ve made two dozen bookmarks.

Prizes should be claimed at National Bookstore in Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati within three months.

This LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore.