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Fiction

  • The Thing Around your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Interpreter of Maladies: Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Going Home, Archie Weller
  • Turning Point, Tim Winton
  • The Adventures of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
  • Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Waterson
  • Children of Men (2006), Alfonso Cuarón
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), Stephen Daldry
  • Ten Canoes (2006), Rolf De Heer and Peter Djigirr
  • Gran Torino (2008), Clint Eastwood
  • The Great Gatsby (2013), Baz Luhrmann
  • Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Hayao Miyazaki
  • The Book Thief (2013), Brian Percival
  • Samson and Delilah (2009), Warwick Thornton
  • Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Zdenko Basic and Manuel Sumberac
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Johnathon Saffran Foer
  • V for Vendetta, A Moore and V Lloyd
  • Maus, Art Spiegelman
  • American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Secret River, Kate Grenville
  • A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
  • Swallow the Air, Tara June Winch
  • The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
  • My Hiroshima, Junko Morimoto
  • The Rabbits, Shaun Tan
  • No Sugar, Jack Davis
  • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Ray Lawler
  • The Shoe-Horn Sonata, John Misto
  • Cosi, Louis Nowra
  • Othello, William Shakespeare
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Influence, David Williamson
  • Mad Men, Matthew Weiner
  • Elementary, Robert Doherty
  • The Twilight Zone, Simon Kinberg, Jordan Peele and Marco Ramirez

Poetry/Poets

  • Antipodes: Poetic Responses, Margaret Bradstock (ed.)
  • Windchimes: Asia in Australia Poetry, Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith (eds.)
  • Poetry of Bruce Dawe, Bruce Dawe
  • Poetry of Gwen Harwood, Gwen Harwood
  • Poetry of Romaine Moreton, Romaine Moreton
  • Poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Oodgeroo Noonuccal
  • Poetry of Wilfred Owen, Wilfred Owen
  • Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath
  • Poetry of Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti
  • Poetry of William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth
  • Poetry of Judith Wright, Judith Wright
  • Peripheral Light: Selected and new poems, John Kinsella
  • AustLit, The University of Queensland
  • Australian Poetry Library, The University of Sydney

Non-fiction

  • Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Escape from Camp 14, Blaine Harden
  • 20,000 Days on Earth (2014), Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
  • An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Davis Guggenheim
  • Blackfish (2013), Gabriela Cowperthwaite
  • The Cove (2009), Louie Psihoyos
  • Utopia (2013), John Pilger
  • Waiting for Superman (2010), Davis Guggenheim
  • Dear America - Letters Home From Vietnam (1987), Bill Couturié
  • First Australians, Rachel Perkins
  • Speeches that Changed the World, Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne (ed.)
  • The Shark Net, Robert Drewe
  • We Are the Weather Makers, Tim Flannery
  • Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, Bernadette Lim
  • Australian War Memorial website, Australian War Memorial
  • Computer games in the classroom – teacher resource, KQED MindShift

Everyday texts

  • The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman
  • Thought Provoking Blogs, Kristin Kaufman
  • Big Think, Freethink Media
  • TED, TED Conferences
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Poetry

  • Poetry of Robert Adamson, Robert Adamson
  • Poetry of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
  • Poetry of Simon Armitage, Simon Armitage
  • Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop
  • Poetry of William Blake, William Blake
  • Poetry of Lily Brett, Lily Brett
  • Poetry of David Campbell, David Campbell
  • Poetry of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen
  • Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Poetry of Billy Collins, Billy Collins
  • Poetry of E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings
  • Poetry of Bruce Dawe, Bruce Dawe
  • Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
  • Poetry of Rosemary Dobson, Rosemary Dobson
  • Poetry of John Donne, John Donne
  • Poetry of Lucy Dougan, Lucy Dougan
  • Poetry of Michael Dransfield, Michael Dransfield
  • Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Carol Ann Duffy
  • Poetry of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
  • Poetry of T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot
  • Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost
  • Poetry of Robert Gray, Robert Gray
  • Poetry of Peter Goldsworthy, Peter Goldsworthy
  • Poetry of Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy
  • Poetry of Gwen Harwood, Gwen Harwood
  • Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney
  • Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert, Zbigniew Herbert
  • Poetry of Dorothy Hewett, Dorothy Hewett
  • Poetry of Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes
  • Poetry of John Keats, John Keats
  • Poetry of John Kinsella, John Kinsella
  • Poetry of Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin
  • Poetry of James McAuley, James McAuley
  • Poetry of John Milton, John Milton
  • Poetry of Romaine Moreton, Romaine Moreton
  • Poetry of Les Murray, Les Murray
  • Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda
  • Poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Oodgeroo Noonuccal
  • Poetry of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver
  • Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath
  • Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich
  • Poetry of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
  • Poetry of Kenneth Slessor, Kenneth Slessor
  • Poetry of Stevie Smith, Stevie Smith
  • Poetry of Wole Soyinka, Wole Soyinka
  • Poetry of Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas
  • Poetry of J. Tranter, J. Tranter
  • Poetry of Samuel Wagan Watson, Samuel Wagan Watson
  • Poetry of Derek Walcott, Derek Walcott
  • Poetry of Francis Webb, Francis Webb
  • Poetry of Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman
  • Poetry of William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth
  • Poetry of Judith Wright, Judith Wright
  • Poetry of W. B. Yeats, W. B. Yeats
  • Poetry of Ouyang Yu, Ouyang Yu

Drama

  • Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar
  • Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
  • The Shifting Heart, Richard Beynon
  • The Secret River, Andrew Bovell
  • Things I Know to be True, Andrew Bovell
  • When the Rain Stops Falling, Andrew Bovell
  • Anthem, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos Tsiolkas
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bertolt Brecht
  • The Good Person of Szechwan, Bertolt Brecht
  • Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, A.C. Cawley (Ed.)
  • The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
  • Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov
  • Bran Nue Dae, Jimmy Chi
  • Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
  • The Summoning of Everyman, G. Cooper and C. Wortham (Eds.)
  • The Return, Reg Cribb
  • No Sugar, Jack Davis
  • Kullark/The Dreamers, Jack Davis
  • The 7 Stages of Grieving, Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman
  • Blackrock, Nick Enright
  • Cloudstreet, Nick Enright and Justin Monjo
  • Medea, Euripides
  • Translations, Brian Friel
  • Boy Gets Girl, Rebecca Gilman
  • Away, Michael Gow
  • The Torrents, Oriel Gray
  • M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang
  • A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
  • Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
  • Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen
  • The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
  • The Laramie Project, Moisés Kaufman
  • Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood
  • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll [Anthology title: The Doll Trilogy], Ray Lawler
  • Oleanna, David Mamet
  • Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
  • The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  • Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
  • A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
  • Prima Facie, Suzie Miller
  • Windmill Baby [Anthology title: Contemporary Indigenous Plays, Vivienne Cleven et al.], David Milroy
  • Waltzing the Wilarra, David Milroy
  • Mary Stuart, Kate Mulvaney
  • Honour, Joanna Murray-Smith
  • The Female of the Species, Joanna Murray-Smith
  • Sweat, Lynn Nottage
  • Inside the Island, Louis Nowra
  • Cosi, Louis Nowra
  • The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Dickon Oxenburgh and Andrew Ross
  • The Drover's Wife, Leah Purcell
  • Box the Pony, Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell
  • Hotel Sorrento, Hannie Rayson
  • Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
  • Equus, Peter Shaffer
  • Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It, William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • Henry IV Pt 1, William Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
  • King Lear, William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth, William Shakespeare
  • Othello, William Shakespeare
  • Richard III, William Shakespeare
  • The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest, William Shakespeare
  • The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
  • Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan
  • Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
  • Antigone, Sophocles
  • Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
  • Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
  • Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
  • Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  • The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race, Melanie Tait
  • Under Milkwood, Dylan Thomas
  • Diving for Pearls, Katherine Thomson
  • ear for eye, Debbie Tucker Green
  • Milk, Dylan Van Der Berg
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
  • The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Dead White Males, David Williamson
  • Don's Party, David Williamson
  • The Perfectionist, David Williamson
  • The Removalists, David Williamson
  • Black Diggers, Tom Wright
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tom Wright
  • City of Gold, Meyne Wyatt

Prose fiction

  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  • Brick Lane, Monica Ali
  • Eva Luna, Isabelle Allende
  • The House of Spirits, Isabelle Allende
  • Of Love and Shadows, Isabelle Allende
  • The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • A Kindness Cup, Thea Astley
  • Drylands, Thea Astley
  • It's Raining in Mango, Thea Astley
  • Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
  • Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
  • Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
  • The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
  • The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
  • The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Persuasion, Jane Austen
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
  • Striped Holes, Damien Broderick
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • The Outsider, Albert Camus
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • Bliss, Peter Carey
  • The True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
  • Illywhacker, Peter Carey
  • Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
  • On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
  • The Awakening and Other Stories, Kate Chopin
  • Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
  • Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • The Longest Memory, Fred D'Aguiar
  • Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
  • The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
  • The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
  • The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
  • Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens
  • Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
  • Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
  • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens
  • Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  • The Drowner, Robert Drewe
  • Second Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  • The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald
  • The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Richard Flanagan
  • Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
  • My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
  • Tsotsi, Athol Fugard
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Old Filth, Jane Gardam
  • Monkey Grip, Helen Garner
  • The Paperbark Shoe, Goldie Goldbloom
  • The Inheritors, William Golding
  • Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy
  • Joan Makes History, Kate Grenville
  • The Secret River, Kate Grenville
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  • Fiesta, Ernest Hemingway
  • Poor Fellow, My Country, Xavier Herbert
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  • The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
  • The Prodigy, Hermann Hesse
  • Sunlight on a Broken Column, Attia Hosain
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • The Well, Elizabeth Jolley
  • Miss Peabody's Inheritance, Elizabeth Jolley
  • Sixty Lights, Gail Jones
  • Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
  • Sorry, Gail Jones
  • Mr Pip, Lloyd Jones
  • Metamorphosis [Anthology title: Metamorphosis and Other Stories], Franz Kafka
  • Bring Larks and Heroes, Thomas Keneally
  • Towards Asmara, Thomas Keneally
  • The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Thomas Keneally
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston
  • English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
  • Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
  • The Australian Fiancé, Simone Lazaroo
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
  • Small Island, Andrea Levy
  • The Wife of Martin Guerre, Janet Lewis
  • Fly Away Peter, David Malouf
  • An Imaginary Life, David Malouf
  • Ransom, David Malouf
  • Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
  • The Life of Pi, Yan Martel
  • The Child in Time, Ian McEwan
  • Saturday, Ian McEwan
  • Atonement, Ian McEwan
  • The White Earth, Andrew McGahan
  • Amongst Women, John McGahern
  • Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
  • The Orchard, Drusilla Modjeska
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison
  • The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
  • The Chosen, Chaim Potok
  • Coonardoo, Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
  • The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
  • The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  • Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
  • The Reader, Bernard Schlink
  • True Country, Kim Scott
  • Benang, Kim Scott
  • That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott
  • Other Country, Stephen Scourfield
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
  • For Love Alone, Christina Stead
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
  • Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Randolph Stow
  • To the Islands, Randolph Stow
  • Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
  • The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  • Charades, Janet Turner Hospital
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
  • The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
  • Birdy, William Wharton
  • A Fringe of Leaves, Patrick White
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • Breath, Tim Winton
  • An Open Swimmer, Tim Winton
  • Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
  • The Riders, Tim Winton
  • Dirt Music, Tim Winton
  • The Submerged Cathedral, Charlotte Wood
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf
  • Leaning Towards Infinity, Sue Woolfe
  • The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
  • The Hottest Night of the Century, Glenda Adams
  • The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, Murray Bail
  • Short stories of Marjorie Barnard, Marjorie Barnard
  • Collected Short Stories, Barbara Baynton
  • Short stories of Tony Birch, Tony Birch
  • Short stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury
  • Collected Stories, Peter Carey
  • Short stories of Angela Carter, Angela Carter
  • Inherited, Amanda Curtin
  • Short stories of Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
  • Short stories of Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
  • The Daylight and The Dust, Janet Frame
  • Short stories of Kelly Gardiner, Kelly Gardiner
  • My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, Helen Garner
  • Short stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Short stories of Susan Glaspell, Susan Glaspell
  • Jump and Other Stories, Nadine Gordimer
  • Short stories of Susan Hawthorne, Susan Hawthorne
  • Short stories of Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson
  • Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, Elizabeth Jolley
  • Dubliners, James Joyce
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Short stories of Henry Lawson, Henry Lawson
  • The Boat, Nam Le
  • Stories, Doris Lessing
  • The New Dark Age, Joan London
  • Short stories of Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield
  • A History of the Bean Bag, Susan Midalia
  • Tales from Firozsha Baag, Rohinton Mistry
  • Miguel Street, V.S. Naipaul
  • High Lonesome: Selected Stories, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
  • Tribute: Selected Stories of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Katharine Susannah Pritchard
  • Short stories of Alice Pung, Alice Pung
  • Collected Stories, Janette Turner Hospital
  • Heat and Light, Ellen Van Neerven
  • Going Home, Archie Weller
  • Short stories of Michael Wilding, Michael Wilding
  • Short stories of Tara June Winch, Tara June Winch
  • Minimum of Two, Tim Winton
  • The Turning, Tim Winton
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