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The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority is refreshing the text lists for senior English subjects. Is there a novel, play, collection of poetry, film or television series (based on a book) that you think should be included? Let us know by adding the title to the list below with a short explanation about why it should be included and/or voting on a title already suggested. We’d love to hear what you think.
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata
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Once Were Warriors
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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No Sugar
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
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Crime and Punishment
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The Book of Lost Names
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
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An Open Book
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Purple Threads
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The Erasure Initiative
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Lili Wilkinson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 760 ratings
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They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 847,822 ratings
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Born Into This
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4.18 avg rating — 678 ratings
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 245,693 ratings
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| 118 |
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Swallow the Air
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Tara June Winch (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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Milk and honey
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Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset
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A Taste of Honey
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An Inspector Calls
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Così
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Birdsong
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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The Natural Way of Things
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Charlotte Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 14,706 ratings
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The Trial
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The Drover's Wife
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 588,545 ratings
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Blakwork
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In Cold Blood
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Wake in Fright
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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The Color Purple
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March
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 76,797 ratings
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Becoming Kirrali Lewis
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3.76 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Flyaway
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Kathleen Jennings (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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The Passion
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The Plague
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A Doll's House
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After The Carnage
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Tara June Winch (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Great Fire
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,579 ratings
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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Emily M. Danforth (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 59,247 ratings
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The Thing Around Your Neck
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,518 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Dirt Music
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After Dark
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 821,808 ratings
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The Lords of Discipline
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Angels in America
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Future Girl
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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After Darkness
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Christine Piper (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 330,784 ratings
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The Laramie Project
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The Sound of Things Falling
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Foreign Soil
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Amnesty
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The Great Alone
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4.45 avg rating — 1,103,365 ratings
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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 48,123 ratings
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That Deadman Dance
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Green Grass, Running Water
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The Boy Behind the Curtain
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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The Shepherd's Hut
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The General in His Labyrinth
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Eucalyptus
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To the Lighthouse
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Killing Commendatore
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Slave: My True Story
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Pygmalion
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Conclave
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The Night Circus
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
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Wolf of Wessex
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
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Don Quixote
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
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The Survivors
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The Buried Giant
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Swamplandia!
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Snow Crash
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On the Beach
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Fly Away Peter
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The Complete MausOne area that the current General English reading list does not address is Holocaust literature and scarcely addresses the newer trend of Graphic Novels as accessed by students and adults alike in our modern world. There is much to be said about 'Maus' as it focuses on a range of themes in addition to the Holocaust - family relationships, prejudice, mental health, guilt and growth, cultural, social and historical representations in the modern world. This links so well to other themes in our communities in terms of these themes.
In terms of focusing on visual representations of serious content, the artist himself addresses this on a number of very clear levels in the text itself. It is rare to have a writer to reflect on the responsibilities of the creative process in the text. Spiegelman does this in a vitally articulate manner, education the reader in the process. The Novel would fit well in the Unit 3 with regard to Textual Connections - so many possible here, as well as in Topic 2 with regard to Conversations about issues in Texts.
I am aware of the presence of the text in the English Extension and Literature course. Given the very positive response this text has had in that course, and my own success and student enjoyment/engagement with this text in English it would be a great addition to the list.
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
