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If you’re embarking on your final VCE year in 2026, the Vision Australia Library is here to support you on your journey. The Library catalogue features the complete VCE English and English as an Additional Language texts.

We also have a range of the senior English and English Literature curriculum texts from across Australia. Additional student texts can be produced in accessible formats through the Student Support Service.

Novels

  • ‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker.
  • ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë.
  • ‘My Brilliant Career’ by Miles Franklin.
  • ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold' by Gabriel García Márquez.
  • ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey.
  • ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ by Shirley Jackson.
  • ‘Ghost Wall’ by Sarah Moss.
  • 'The Memory Police’ by Yōko Ogawa.

Short stories

  • ‘Bad Dreams and Other Stories’ by Tessa Hadley.
  • ‘The Valley of Lagoons, Every Move You Make, War Baby, Towards Midnight, Elsewhere, Mrs Porter and the Rock, The Domestic Cantata’ by David Malouf.

The VCAA List specifies ‘The Complete Stories’ by David Malouf as the text to source these seven short stories. ‘The Complete Stories’ is not in the Vision Australia Library collection. However, all the required short stories listed above are available in the Vision Australia Library in their original anthology called ‘Every Move You Make’ by David Malouf.

Plays

  • ‘Rainbow’s End’ by Jane Harrison.  
  • ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare.  
  • ‘Oedipus the King’ by Sophocles.

Poetry / songs

  • ‘Selected Poems’ by Langston Hughes. Poems for study: all poems from ‘Afro-American fragments’, ‘Magnolia Flowers’, ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ and ‘Words Like Freedom’.
  • ‘New and Selected Poems’ by Mary Oliver. Poems for study: all poems from ‘Dream Work’ and ‘American Primitive’.

Non-fiction texts

  • ‘We come with this place’ by Debra Dank.
  • ‘Born a Crime’ by Trevor Noah.