If you’re embarking on your final VCE year in 2025, 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 curriculum texts from across Australia. Additional student texts can be produced in accessible formats through the Student Support Service.
Novels
Flames by Robbie Arnott. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. 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
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver. Poems for study: All poems from Dream Work and American Primitive.
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk-Green and John Kinsella. All poems for study.
Non-fiction texts
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie. Born a Crime by Noah Trevor.
