Prescribed Text List 2020-2023

Module 1

Genre Study - Elective: Thriller

• The Dry by Jane Harper

Module 2

Adaptation Study

• Short cuts by Raymond Carver

Recommended texts

• Public Figures by Jena Osman
• Every Sunrise by Cameron Hindrum
• The Cabin at the end of the world by Paul Tremblay
• Your story matters by Leslie Fields
• Another Australia by Winnie Dunn
• A Swim in the pond in the rain by George Saunders
• Popular mechanics by Raymond Carver (in What we talk about when we talk about love)
• Poetry handbook by Mary Oliver
• Michael Ondaatje's works
• Forty-South Short Story Anthologies
  

Descriptive writing

• Breath by Tim Winton
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The God in the Ink by Kathryn Lomer

Words and perspectives

• The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• The Turning by Tim Winton
• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

Creating character

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Selected short stories by Archie Roach
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood
• The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Dialogue

• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Turning by Tim Winton
• The Twelfth Dialogue by Tom Petsinis
• Wanting by Richard Flanagan

Point of view

• Embers by Maral Sandor
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Boat by Nam Le

Writing structures 

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
• After the First Death by Robert Cormier

Innovation

Writers and research

• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
• Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville

Publishing

Creative non-ficiton

• Make it make sense by Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins
• Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
• Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone
• In cold blood by Truman Capote
• Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
• The Season by Helen Garner
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• Homecoming and Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki