Summary: Interesting books, poems, music and other forms of arts.
Poems by Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet and legend): Vent Poemas de amor y tuna canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair) El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba - Gabriel García Márquez. First novel I studied when in school.
In Filipino, one of my favorite poets is Benilda Santos and her classic collection, Pali-Palitong Posporo (Each Matchstick is the loose translation) delights every generation that discovers it.
For poetry in English or translated in English: Adrienne Rich (her book Fact of a Doorframe) William Stafford (his book of poems The Darkness Around Us is Deep) Rumi (collected poems)
For novels in English: -Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (forget the movie, the book is so much more chilling because so many things it wrote about as fiction have happened) -Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (it reads like nonfiction in the beginning (because it discusses philosophy and the idea of eternal return) -Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin