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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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Those Brisbane Romantics
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Nights at the Circus
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The Eye of the Storm
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Enduring Love
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The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne
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My Deadly Boots
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
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Fresh Complaint: Stories
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Remembering Babylon
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Terra Nullius
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Claire G. Coleman (Goodreads Author)
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
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The Age of Innocence
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Tenth of December
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The First Stone
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Tennyson's Poetry
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Black Cockatoo
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Nutshell
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
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What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
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The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times
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Schindler's Ark
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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Tracks of the Missing
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The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)
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Travelling North
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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Casey McQuiston (Goodreads Author)
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At the Wolf's Table
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Rosella Postorino (Goodreads Author)
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The Woman at 72 Derry Lane
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Carmel Harrington (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 5,174 ratings
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 345,043 ratings
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Feersum Endjinn
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My Brilliant Career
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Wuthering Heights
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The Humans
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 153,051 ratings
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 44,252 ratings
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The Lemon Table
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Chocky
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Truth (Broken Shore, #2)
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The one day of the year
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The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte
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Klara and the Sun
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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More Happy Than Not
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
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The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 54,143 ratings
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Khaki Town
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Carpentaria
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The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
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Project Hail Mary
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
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Friday Black
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author)
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
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Robert Dugoni (Goodreads Author)
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
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Ken Krimstein (Goodreads Author)
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The Rich Man's House
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vol I and II
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark T. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
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Nausea
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The Lost Man
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The Shifting Heart
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Selected Poems
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Small Boat
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 666,798 ratings
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The Golden Age
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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The Complete Poems
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In Deeper Waters
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Disgrace
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Woman on the Edge of Time
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Hold Your Own
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The Complete Poems
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Buried Child
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
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Foe
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William Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Slow Man
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The Stories of Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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The Iliad
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A Meeting of Two Prophets
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The Odyssey
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The Aeneid
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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The White Bone
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Dr. Faustus
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Home Body
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The Mountain Story
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The Metamorphosis
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Photograph 51
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The Constant Gardener
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Box the pony
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Moon and the Bonfire
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The Woman in Black
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A Tale of Two Cities
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness & the Love of Words
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David Copperfield
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Ulysses
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Dubliners
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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.
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