The VCAA has approved the Literature list for 2025. If your school is studying a title that does not appear on the updated list, consider a suitable alternative for your students next year.
The VCAA has approved the Literature list for 2025. If your school is studying a title that does not appear on the updated list, consider a suitable alternative for your students next year. We have summarised some of these titles below and included links to accompanying study resources.
It is important to keep in mind the themes that you are looking to explore in these units to see if they suit the school and most importantly your students.
When choosing your texts, remember to follow the selection guidelines as outlined by the VCAA. If you want to explore your options, replace a title or are simply curious to see what titles will be listed in 2025, please see the entire list below.
NOVELS
Astley, Thea, Drylands
Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace
Drewe, Robert, Our Sunshine (New for 2025)
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day
Murnane, Gerald, The Plains
Stoker, Bram, Dracula
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence (New for 2025)
Winch, Tara June, The Yield
PLAYS
Aeschylus, The Persians
Chekhov, Anton, Uncle Vanya
Harmon, Joshua, Admissions
Kirkwood, Lucy, Chimerica
Murray-Smith, Joanna, Berlin
Parks, Suzan-Lori, Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2 and 3
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac
Shakespeare, William, As You Like It
Shakespeare, William, The Winter’s Tale
SHORT STORIES
Chiang, Ted, Stories of Your Life and Others
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge (New for 2025)
Tan, Elizabeth, Smart Ovens for Lonely People
OTHER LITERATURE
Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time
Holden, Kate, The Winter Road (New for 2025)
Seacole, Mary, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
POETRY
Bishop, Elizabeth, Poems (New for 2025)
Duffy, Carol Ann, The World’s Wife
Goa, Gavin Yuan, At the Alter of Touch (New for 2025)
Holland-Batt, Sarah, The Hazards
van Neerven, Ellen, Throat
Yeats, William Butler, Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
The following titles have been removed from the VCAA Literature List for 2025:
Lindsay, Joan, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Zola, Emile, (Brian Nelson transl.), The Ladies’ Paradise
Munro, Alice, Dance of the Happy Shades, Vintage
Winton, Tim, The Boy Behind the Curtain
Dickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems
Slessor, Kenneth Selected Poems
Available ATAR Notes Text Guides for the following VCAA Literature titles:
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Insight Text Guides available for the following titles:
At this point in time the following information is provided to the best of our knowledge. This article will be updated as new information arises.
If your school would like more information on these titles or would like any of the above mentioned titles invoiced or on approval please send an email to info@lilydalebooks.com.au.
To view what is on the VCAA English & EAL Text List for 2025, click here.
The information in this article is cited from the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority.
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