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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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The Book Thief
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Othello
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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The Great Gatsby
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Jasper Jones
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Ordinary Matter
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The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
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Macbeth
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1984
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Hamlet
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The Secret River
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Brave New World
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The Crucible
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Lord of the Flies
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
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Boy Swallows Universe
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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The Yield
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Tara June Winch (Goodreads Author)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Stone Sky Gold Mountain
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Circe
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
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Dark Emu
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Rebecca
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Looking for Alibrandi
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 25,318 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,251,020 ratings
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The Road
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Burial Rites
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Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 121,821 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,974,318 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 508,941 ratings
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Trick of the Light
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4.07 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,232 ratings
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The White Girl
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4.08 avg rating — 6,544 ratings
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A Passage to India
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Cloudstreet
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4.01 avg rating — 27,607 ratings
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Throat
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4.17 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,585,149 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,553,407 ratings
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The Hate Race
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4.30 avg rating — 3,645 ratings
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 233,847 ratings
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The Dressmaker (Dressmaker, #1)
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A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 247,740 ratings
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
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Black Diggers
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 596,190 ratings
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
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3.69 avg rating — 8,737 ratings
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The Tempest
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 230,869 ratings
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The Slap
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North and South
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The Future Ancients
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4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Happiest Man on Earth
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4.61 avg rating — 121,020 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 82,979 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 277,706 ratings
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,006 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The White Earth
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3.71 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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Death of a Salesman
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3.58 avg rating — 254,173 ratings
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 141,642 ratings
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Great Expectations
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Pride and Prejudice
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Contemporary Indigenous Plays: Bitin' Back, Black Medea, King Hit, Rainbow's End, Windmill Baby
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,895,276 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Honeybee
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Craig Silvey (Goodreads Author)
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A Room of One’s Own
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The Mayne Inheritance
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
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Twelfth Night
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Earth Hour
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Stolen
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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Night
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Bridge of Clay
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Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story Of Our World War 1 Nurses
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,275,076 ratings
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Her Father's Daughter
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Alice Pung (Goodreads Author)
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12 Angry Men (1957 Film)
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Frederic P. Miller (Editor)
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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The Namesake
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Atonement
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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The Castle
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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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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