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For teachers in Queensland to participate in developing prescribed text lists for the new General subjects of English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), and Literature. You can vote on titles already on this list, and add new title suggestions. Don't forget to leave a short explanation for your votes and suggestions.
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The Leopard
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No Sugar
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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Radiance
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Dirt Music
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The Natural Way of Things
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Worldshaker (Worldshaker, #1)
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The Quiet American
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Piano Solo)
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Richard Harris (Arranger)
4.32 avg rating — 4,747 ratings
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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The Children of Men
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Wit
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Dougy/Gracey/Angela (The Gracey Trilogy 1-3)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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For the Term of His Natural Life
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Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
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Hedda Gabler
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Brighton Rock
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The Buried Giant
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 118,837 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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Fly Away Peter
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The Kitchen God's Wife
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 87,380 ratings
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The English Patient
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The Divine Wind
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The Cellist of Sarajevo
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The Red Tent
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4.20 avg rating — 626,238 ratings
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| 228 |
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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
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4.27 avg rating — 76,685 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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Gulliver’s Travels
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After January
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
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Dubliners
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All the Birds, Singing
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3.61 avg rating — 14,585 ratings
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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We Were Liars
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3.65 avg rating — 1,340,277 ratings
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 11,724 ratings
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Jack Maggs
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3.69 avg rating — 4,407 ratings
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The drover's wife and other stories
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3.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Wasp Factory
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3.75 avg rating — 105,730 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.18 avg rating — 210,636 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,343 ratings
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
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4.07 avg rating — 14,984 ratings
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Last Drinks
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3.89 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
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4.30 avg rating — 30,058 ratings
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 202,807 ratings
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An Inspector Calls
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3.82 avg rating — 44,541 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 79,400 ratings
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Less Than Zero
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3.60 avg rating — 96,075 ratings
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Sometimes gladness : collected poems, 1954-1982
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3.81 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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3.80 avg rating — 44,561 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,754 ratings
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Lord Byron: The Major Works
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4.15 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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The Complete Stories
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4.39 avg rating — 40,491 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 652,312 ratings
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 32,897 ratings
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Vault of Verona (Into the Abyss, #1)
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Marissa Price (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 282,360 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 855,131 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,278,168 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 54,156 ratings
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Shimada
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The Shiralee
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4.04 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 258,622 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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Slumdog Millionaire
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4.02 avg rating — 37,960 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 304,085 ratings
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 132,674 ratings
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Zeroes (Zeroes, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 10,810 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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Stolen
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Oscar and Lucinda
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Wake in Fright
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Silk
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My people: A Kath Walker collection
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
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Aldaraia
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4.60 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Good People
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3.82 avg rating — 22,774 ratings
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The English Class
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Genesis
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3.90 avg rating — 13,553 ratings
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Clade
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3.62 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
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Purple Hibiscus
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Between the World and Me
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The Complete Poems
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A Moveable Feast
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New Selected Poems
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More Than This
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Hogfather
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My Life as a Fake
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The Passion
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
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Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson
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Sula
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The Trial
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The Complete Poems
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Words in Deep Blue
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Henry IV, Part I
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White Tears
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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) novelThe Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) novel
Henry IV, part I
Lainie wrote: "Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..."
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Also what about House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, or Daughter of Fortune.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Bride's Farewell by Meg RosoffTrash by Andy Mulligan
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text
Joan wrote: "In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text"I agree.
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