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Discover databases, eBooks, news archives, collections and stories from State Library for your study of English.
Recommended subjects
These resources are recommended for students studying the following subjects in Queensland classrooms:
- Year 7 to 10 English (Australian Curriculum)
- Year 11 and 12 English (QCAA Syllabus)
- Year 11 and 12 English and Literature Extension (QCAA Syllabus)
- Year 11 and 12 English as an Additional Language (QCAA Syllabus)
- Year 11 and 12 Essential English (QCAA Syllabus)
- Year 11 and 12 Literacy (QCAA Syllabus)
- Year 11 and 12 Literature (QCAA Syllabus)
QCAA prescribed text (2026 - 2029)
Explore curated OneSearch links to help you with your study of the QCAA prescribed texts for English/EAL and Literature subjects.
English/EAL
After Darkness — Christine Piper
Begin, End, Begin: #LoveOzYA anthology — Danielle Binks
Father’s Day (collection of short stories) — Tony Birch
Growing Up series (various texts and authors)
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia — Anita Heiss
Growing Up Asian in Australia — Alice Pung
If Cats Disappeared from the World — Genki Kawamura
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly’s songs reimagined — Jock Serong, Mark Smith, and Neil A White
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
Persepolis: The story of a childhood (graphic novel) — Marjane Satrapi
Schindler’s Ark (also known as Schindler’s List) — Thomas Keneally
Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
Talking to My Country — Stan Grant
The Boat (collection of short stories) — Nam Le
The Cellist of Sarajevo — Steven Galloway
The Color of Water — James McBride
The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
The Hate Race — Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Penelopiad: The myth of Penelope and Odysseus — Margaret Atwood
The White Earth — Andrew McGahan
This All Come Back Now: An anthology of First Nations speculative fiction — Mykaela Saunders
Ali’s Wedding — Jeffrey Walker
Australian Story (documentary series) — ABC
Cleverman (TV series) — Wayne Blair and Leah Purcell
Four Corners (documentary series) — ABC
Glitch (TV series) — Emma Freeman
Good Night and Good Luck — George Clooney
Hidden Figures — Theodore Melfi
Howl’s Moving Castle — Hayao Miyazaki
Little Miss Sunshine — Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris
Rear Window — Alfred Hitchcock
Sherlock (TV series) — Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt
Stranger Things season one (TV series) — the Duffer Brothers
The Australian Dream — Daniel Gordon
Literature
Always will be (collection of short stories) — Mykaela Saunders
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens — Shankari Chandran
Do Not Say We Have Nothing — Madeleine Thien
Foreign Soil (collection of short stories) — Maxine Beneba Clarke
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
Life After Life — Kate Atkinson
Only the Animals (linked collection of short stories) — Ceridwen Dovey
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Short stories by George Saunders
Short stories by Ursula K Le Guin
Snow Falling on Cedars –— David Guterson
Swallow the Air — Tara June Winch
Terra Nullius — Claire G Coleman
That Deadman Dance — Kim Scott
The Complete Maus (graphic novel — two volumes) — Art Spiegelman
The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick
The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
The Quiet American — Graham Greene
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga
A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt
Black is the New White — Nakkiah Lui
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Tennessee Williams
Death and the Maiden — Ariel Dorfman
Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
I’m with Her — Victoria Midwinter Pitt
King Lear — William Shakespeare
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah — Alana Valentine
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Trie
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Interstellar — Christopher Nolan
Looking for Richard — Al Pacino
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
Pan’s Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro
Picnic at Hanging Rock — Peter Weir
Raise the Red Lantern — Zhang Yimou
Ripley (TV series) — Steven Zaillian
Shutter Island — Martin Scorsese
Sweet Country — Warwick Thornton
The Gods of Wheat Street (TV series) — Wayne Blair, Catriona McKenzie and Adrian Russell Wills
The Last of Us (TV series) — Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann
