Rick Barot: Holiday Gift Book Lists

This holiday, why not give the gift of literature? We will be posting reading lists and book buying suggestions from Filipino American authors here. We've previously posted lists from Eileen Tabios, Barbara Jane Reyes, Oliver de la Paz, Vangie Buell, Veronica Montes, Karen Llagas, Luis Francia, Ninotchka Rosca and Jessica Hagedorn, Tony Robles, Cecilia Brainard, Benito M. Vergara, Jr., Albert B. Casuga, R. Zamora Linmark, Penélope V. Flores, Tess Uriza Holthe, and Aileen Ibardaloza. This next list is from Rick Barot:

Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Apogee Press, 2002).

Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy (Red Hen Press, 2010).

So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks by Rigoberto Gonzalez (University of Illinois Press, 1999).

Half of the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera (University of Arizona Press, 2008).

Man on Extremely Small Island by Jason Koo (C&R Press, 2009).

The Iron Key by James Longenbach (W.W. Norton, 2010).

The Ginkgo Light by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press, 2009).

Pleasure by Brian Teare (Ahsata Press, 2010).