Filipino Book Lover Gives Free Access to His Online Classics Library

 “Ito ang ambag ko, mga chong,” Jyrus Cimatu says in a Facebook post. “Gamitin niyo sana 'yong panahong to para maging productive at mamulat para maka-unawa naman sa ibang tao.”

(This is my contribution, guys. May you use this time to be productive and become aware so that you can understand other people.)

“(I am) making public and available to all my online library which comprises Harvard Classics, Palanca-winning works, philosophy books, poetry, non-fiction books, and journal articles on politics, history, international relations and diplomacy, culture, and humanities,” adds Cimatu.

However, Cimatu emphasizes that the materials shall only be used for educational purposes only and not for monetary gain.

His online collection, titled Love In the Time of Corona Readings, is divided into different folders according to subject: law, politics, natural sciences, economy, history, philosophy, humanities, poetry, novels, and even children’s audiobooks.

Among the novels and classics he owns are the following:

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
• American Psycho by Bert Ellis
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip Dick
• Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal
• Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
• Frankenstein by Godwin Shelley
• It by Stephen King
• Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Masterpieces of World Literature edited by Frank Magill
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
• Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Responde by Norman Wilwayco
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• The Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• The Fall by Albert Camus
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Woman Her Charm and Power by Robert Downes

These titles are just a fraction of Cimatu’s collection, which includes history, politics, short stories, and more.