VCAA Literature List 2022
Upcoming titles for the VCAA Literature List 2022
March 11, 2021 | 2-3 minute read (Original article published March 2020)
The VCAA have announced the Literature texts for Units 3&4 for 2022, previously delayed from 2021. New titles have been added and some titles have been removed. If your school is currently using a text that has been removed from the list, you may already be looking for an alternative for students to study next year.
It is important to take into consideration the themes you are looking to explore in these units and what will be suitable for your school and specifically your students. For example, new addition As I Lay Dying demonstrates themes of losing a family member and the effects it has on the children. Renowned author Kazuo Ishigaro makes an appearance on the list with his novel The Remains of the Day. This text explores themes of loss as well as dignity and greatness. Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) is an epic exploration of slavery in America during the Civil War in three interconnected parts.
Other notable additions are Yeats’ Poetry, Dracula, Uncle Vanya and Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale.
To find out what texts have made the VCAA Literature List for 2022, please keep reading.
VCAA LITERATURE LIST 2022
NOVELS
Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey
Cadwallader, Robyn, The Anchoress
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying (New in 2022)
Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day (New in 2022)
Lindsay, Joan, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Stoker, Bram, Dracula (New in 2022)
Winterson, Jeanette, The Passion
Wright, Alexis, Carpentaria
Zola, Emile, (Brian Nelson transl.), The Ladies’ Paradise
PLAYS
Bovell, Andrew, Speaking in Tongues
Chekov, Anton, Uncle Vanya (New in 2022)
Delaney, Shelagh, A Taste of Honey
Euripides, Hippolytus
Morrison, Toni, Desdemona
Parks, Suzan-Lori, Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2 and 3 (New in 2022)
Reza, Yasmina, Art
Shakespeare, William, Othello
Shakespeare, William, The Winter’s Tale (New in 2022)
SHORT STORIES
Beneba Clarke, Maxine, Foreign Soil
Dovey, Ceridwen, Only the Animals
Munro, Alice, Dance of the Happy Shades, Vintage
OTHER LITERATURE
Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time (New in 2022)
Winton, Tim, The Boy Behind the Curtain
Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own
POETRY
Dickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems
Plath, Sylvia, Ariel
Slessor, Kenneth Selected Poems
Wagan Watson, Samuel, Smoke Encrypted Whispers
White, Petra, A Hunger (revised edition)
Yeats, William Butler, Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (New in 2022)
Available ATAR Notes Text Guides for the following VCAA Literature titles:
ATAR Notes Text Guide: Othello
ATAR Notes Text Guide: Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Insight Text Guides available for the following titles:
Insight Text Guide: The Boy Behind the Curtain
Insight Text Guide: Othello
The following titles have been removed from the VCAA Literature List for 2022:
Calvino, Italo, ‘The Baron in the Trees’, in Our Ancestors, Archibald Colquhoun
Gaskell, Elizabeth, North and South
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, The Sound of Things Falling, Anne McLean
Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night
Shepard, Sam, Buried Child
Williams, Tennessee, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism, Theo Cuffe (ed. and trans.)
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
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!
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 2022, click here.
The information in this article is cited from the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority.
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