VCAA English and EAL List 2025
New titles announced for the VCAA English & EAL List 2025
February 13, 2024 | 2-3 minute read
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 below.
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VCAA ENGLISH & EAL LIST 2025
LIST 1
NOVELS
Arnott, Robbie, Flames
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre (NEW FOR 2025)
Erpenbeck, Jenny, Go, Went, Gone
Franklin, Miles, My Brilliant Career
García Márquez, Gabriel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Jackson, Shirley, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Moss, Sarah, Ghost Wall (NEW FOR 2025)
Ogawa, Yōko, The Memory Police
SHORT STORIES
Hadley, Tessa, Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Malouf, David, The Complete Stories (NEW FOR 2025)
PLAYS
Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End
Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night (NEW FOR 2025)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
POETRY/SONGS
Oliver, Mary, New and Selected Poems, Volume One (NEW FOR 2025)
Papertalk Greene, Charmaine and Kinsella, John, False Claims of Colonial Thieves
FILMS
Johnson, Stephen (director), High Ground
Wilder, Billy (director), Sunset Boulevard
OTHER
Ottley, Matt, Requiem for a Beast
NON-FICTION
Noah, Trevor, Born a Crime
Laveau-Harvie, Vicki, The Erratics
LIST 2
Writing about personal journeys
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, ‘The Danger of a Single Story’
Duong, Amy, ‘The Red Plastic Chair is a Vietnamese Cultural Institution, and My Anchor’ (Click here to read SBS article & Click here to buy book)
Hodge, Maya, ‘bidngen’
López, Matthew, Walter’s speech (end of Part 1) from The Inheritance (See video below or click here to view on YouTube)
Writing about play
Gay, Virginia, 'Monologue from Cyrano' (See below, or click here to view on Youtube)
Roffey, Chelsea, ‘An Open Letter to Doubting Thomas’
Russon, Penni, ‘All That We Know of Dreaming’
Winton, Tim, ‘About the Boys’
Writing about country
Chekhov, Anton, ‘Gooseberries’ (Click here to buy book.)
Clarke, Maxine Beneba, Chapter 2, 'The Hate Race'
Kassab, Yumna, ‘The Conquest of Land and Dream’
Lynch, Cassie, ‘Split’ (Flock, includes the short story 'Split')
Writing about protest
Gillespie, Mark, ‘Friday Essay: On the Sydney Mardi Gras March of 1978’
Pankhurst, Emmeline, ‘Freedom or Death’
Vonnegut, Kurt, ‘Harrison Bergeron’ (Welcome to the Monkey House, contains the story 'Harrison Bergeron')
Wyatt, Meyne, 'Monologue from City of Gold' (See below, or Click here to to watch the Youtube video)
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The following titles which appear on the 2024 VCAA list ARE NOT listed for 2025:
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Munro, Alice, Runaway
Shakespeare, William, Much Ado About Nothing
Wordsworth, William, William Wordsworth: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney
RESOURCES
Once you have selected your texts from lists 1 and 2, you may want to explore what study resources are available to assist students’ learning and comprehension of their set texts.
The Insight Comparison texts are excellent resources that will help students write comprehensive essays comparing the texts being studied in class. Insight have created a range of comparisons that suit the texts being compared from list 2.
Available ATAR Notes Guides for the following VCAA English List titles:
Atar Notes Text Guide: Flames
Atar Notes Text Guide: Jane Eyre
Atar Notes Text Guide: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Atar Notes Text Guide: The Memory Police
Atar Notes Text Guide: Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Atar Notes Text Guide: Rainbow's End
Atar Notes Text Guide: Twelfth Night
Atar Notes Text Guide: Oedipus The King
Atar Notes Text Guide: Born A Crime
Insight Text Guides available for the following titles:
Insight Text Guide: Flames
Insight Text Guide: Go, Went, Gone
Insight Text Guide: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Insight Text Guide: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Insight Text Guide: The Memory Police
Insight Text Guide: Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Insight Text Guide: Rainbow's End
Insight Text Guide: False Claims of Colonial Thieves
Insight Text Guide: High Ground
Insight Text Guide: Sunset Boulevard
Insight Text Guide: Requiem for a Beast
Insight Text Guide: Born a Crime
Insight Text Guide: The Erratics
Insight Text Guide: Ghost Wall
Insight Text Guide: Jane Eyre
Insight Text Guide: My Brilliant Career
Insight Text Guide: Twelfth Night
Insight Text Guide: Oedipus The King
Insight Text Guide: New and Selected Poems Vol 1 by Mary Oliver
Other available English/EAL resources:
Insight Framework of Ideas: Writing About Country
Insight Framework of Ideas: Writing About Personal Journeys
Insight Framework of Ideas: Writing About Play
Insight Framework of Ideas: Writing About Protest
ATAR Notes Frameworks: Writing About Country
ATAR Notes Frameworks: Writing About Personal Journeys
ATAR Notes Frameworks: Writing About Play
ATAR Notes Frameworks: Writing About Protest
BooBook Education Study Guide: Flames
BooBook Education Study Guide: Rainbow's End
BooBook Education Study Guide: Oedipus The King
BooBook Education Study Guide: High Ground
BooBook Education Study Guide: Born A Crime
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.
Get in touch!
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The information in this article is cited from the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority.
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