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New South Wales HSC Book List
Area of Study: Belonging
Prose Fiction or Non-Fiction
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
Drama or Film or Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison
Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann
Ten Canoes by Rolf De Heer
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Poetry
Immigrant Chronicle by Peter Skrzynecki
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
Standard English Course
Module A: Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
Prose Fiction
The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender by Marele Day
Drama
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Poetry
On a Clear Day by Joanne Burns
The Penguin Banjo Paterson Collection by Banjo Paterson
Nonfiction
Speeches
'I Have A Dream' by Martin Luther King 1963
Address to the Plenary Session at the Earth Summit Rio Centro, Brazil by Severn Cullis-Suzuki 1992
Inaugural Address by John F Kennedy 1961
'Is it to be Back to the Kitchen?' by Jessie Street 1944
Eulogy for Princess Diana by Earl Spencer 1997
'True Liberation of Women' by Indira Gandhi 1980
Elective 2: Distinctively Visual
Prose Fiction
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy
Drama
The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto
Poetry
Selected Poems by Douglas Stewart
Film or Media
Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
Seachange Series 2 by Deb Cox
Module B: Close Study of Text
Prose Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
Drama
Cosi by Louis Nowra
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Poetry
War Poems and Others by Wilfred Owen
Collected Poems by Judith Wright
Nonfiction or Film
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Witness by Peter Weir
Module C: Texts and Society
Elective 1: The Global Village
Prose Fiction
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
Drama
A Man with Five Children by Nick Enright
Film or Multimedia
The Castle by Rob Sitch
Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia by Wikimedia
Elective 2: Into the World
Prose Fiction
The Story of Tom Brennan by JC Burke
Drama
Educating Rita by Willy Russell
Poetry
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners by Ken Watson (ed)
Nonfiction or Film
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
Advanced English Course
Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts
Elective 1: Exploring Connections
Shakespearean Drama and Film
King Richard III by William Shakespeare
Looking for Richard by Al Pacino
Prose Fiction and Poetry
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
Selected Poems by Rosemary Dobson
Prose Fiction and Nonfiction
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
Poetry and Drama
Selected Poetry by John Donne
Wit by Margaret Edson
Elective 2: Texts in Time
Prose Fiction and Film
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Blade Runner by Ridley Scott
Prose Fiction and Poetry
The Great Gatsby by Scott F Fitzgerald
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Drama and Nonfiction
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Module B: Critical Study of Texts
Shakespearean Drama
Hamlet by William Shakespear
Prose Fiction
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatjie
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Drama or Film
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
Poetry
WB Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney by WB Yeats
Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
Selected Poems by Kenneth Slessor
Nonfiction
George Orwell Essays by George Orwell
Speeches
'Spotty Handed Villainesses' by Margaret Atwood 1994
'Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Solider' by Paul Keating 1993
'An Australian History for us all' by Noel Pearson 1996
'Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women' by Aung San Suu Kyi 1995
'Faith, Hope and Reconciliation' by Faith Bandler 1999
'Is is Still Winter at Home?' by William Deane 1999
Speech to the Israeli Knesset' by Anwar Sadat 1977
Module C: Representation and Text
Elective 1: Conflicting Perspectives
Shakespearean Drama
Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare
Prose Fiction
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Drama or Film
The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan
Wag the Dog by Barry Levinson
Poetry
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Nonfiction
The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson
Elective 2: History and Memory
Prose Fiction
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Film
The Queen by Stephen Frears
Poetry
Selected Poems by Denise Levertov
Non-fiction or Multimedia
The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Raphael Baker
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