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219 books about the Bangsamoro and its peoples, with where each can be bought, borrowed or read free.
23 books on literature · clear
2019In print
Marawi and Other PoemsSimeon Dumdum Jr.
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Poems by a Cebuano poet and retired judge, the title poem among them written on the siege of Marawi.
2019Out of print
Mindanao Harvest 4eds. Jaime An Lim, Christine Godinez-Ortega and Ricardo M. de Ungria
Far Eastern University Publications
An anthology of writing from Mindanao this century, edited at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, with Moro writers among its contributors, Calbi A. Asain’s story “Hegira” among them.

2017Self-published
Abduction of Princess LawanenNosca Khalid
Independently published
An episode of the Maranao epic retold in English by a Maranao author and published independently.
2013Out of print
Panitikang MëranawSandor B. Abad
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Maranao legends and tales, in Maranao and Filipino, for the Commission on the Filipino Language.
2012Out of print
Collected WorksAida Rivera-Ford
C & E Publishing
Aida Rivera-Ford’s stories, essays and other writing gathered in one volume late in her long life in Davao.
2010In print
Below the Crying MountainCriselda Yabes
University of the Philippines Press
A novel of Sulu in the 1970s, of a Tausug family and the war that came to Jolo. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the UP Centennial Literary Prize.

2010In print
Voices from Sulued. Gerard Rixhon
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Tausug epics, tales, songs and sayings recorded over forty years in Sulu, with translations, from the founder of the journal Sulu Studies.
2007Out of print
Children of the Ever-Changing Mooned. Gutierrez Mangansakan II
Anvil Publishing
Essays by young Moro writers from across the region, the first anthology of its kind, edited by a Maguindanaon filmmaker.
2003Out of print
Mga Kuwentong MaranaoFrank G. Rivera
UST Publishing House
Plays drawn from Maranao tales, written in Filipino by Frank Rivera for the Sining Kambayoka theatre of Mindanao State University.

2003Out of print
The Voice from Sumisip & Four Short StoriesAntonio R. Enriquez
Giraffe Books
A novella named for the town of Sumisip in Basilan, with four short stories.
2001Out of print
Tales from Lake Lanao and Other EssaysNagasura T. Madale
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Stories of the lake and essays on Maranao life by a Maranao anthropologist.

2001Out of print
Panunggud and Other StoriesCalbi A. Asain
De La Salle University Publishing House
Stories of Tausug life in Sulu by a Tausug writer of fiction, from De La Salle University Press.

1997In print
Born in the Year 1900 and Other StoriesAida Rivera-Ford
University of the Philippines Press
Short stories by the Jolo-born writer best known for “The Chieftest Mourner”, still one of the most taught stories in Philippine classrooms, from the University of the Philippines Press.

1996Out of print
The Unseen War and Other Tales from MindanaoAntonio R. Enriquez
Giraffe Books
Stories of Mindanao’s wars and the people who live through them, by the Zamboanga novelist.

1995Out of print
Stories from the Darangened. Howard P. McKaughan
De La Salle University Publishing House
Episodes of the Maranao epic retold in English prose, for readers who will not face the eight volumes.
1995Out of print
Maranao StoriesHoward P. McKaughan
De La Salle University Publishing House
Maranao folktales translated into English, from the linguist who compiled the Maranao dictionary.

1994Out of print
The Songs of Salanda and Other Stories of SuluH. Arlo Nimmo
University of Washington Press
Stories of the Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi, written by the anthropologist who lived among them, from what he saw and was told.
1993Out of print
Lexicon of Classical Literary Maranao Words and PhrasesBatua A. Macaraya
Mindanao State University
The old literary Maranao of the darangen and the bayok, glossed by the Maranao scholar who co-wrote the dictionary.

1986Out of print
DarangenMindanao State University, Folklore Division
Mindanao State University
The Maranao epic of Bantugan and the kingdom of Bembaran, sung for centuries around Lake Lanao, transcribed and translated in eight volumes by Mindanao State University; inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as a masterpiece of oral heritage.

1985Out of print
The White Horse of Alih and Other StoriesMig Alvarez Enriquez
New Day Publishers
Stories by the Zamboanga writer. In the title story a Moro man, Alih, and his brother Omar plan to attack a crowd celebrating an American holiday, and Alih turns on his brother to stop him.

1983Out of print
Three Philippine Epic PlaysMig Alvarez Enriquez
New Day Publishers
Three epic heroes put on stage, among them Bantugan, the hero of the Maranao Darangen.

1981Out of print
Surveyors of the Liguasan MarshAntonio R. Enriquez
University of Queensland Press
Enriquez’s first novel, set among land surveyors in the Liguasan Marsh of Maguindanao, country he knew as a young man. First published in Australia, it was reissued in the Philippines in 2003 as Green Sanctuary.

1980Out of print
Thirteen Tausug FolktalesMindanao State University, University Research Center
Mindanao State University
Tausug tales collected and translated by the university’s research centre.