HSC English Area of Study: Discovery (2015 - 2018)
Suggestions for related texts:
Includes: Adult, Young Adult and Junior fiction, non-fiction, picture books, graphic
novels, songs, film & television
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Adult Fiction
Title
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Floundering
Emma
Fahrenheit 451
Wrack
Lola Bensky
Jane Eyre
Caleb’s Crossing
The House of Special Purpose
The Absolutist
Remarkable Creatures
Questions of Travel
The Isle of Youth
Room
Good to a Fault
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time
About a Boy
The Island
Never Let Me Go
On the Road
To Kill A Mockingbird
Blood and Ice
The Road
The Children Act
Moby Dick
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
1984
Bel Canto
Everything is Illuminated
Catcher in the Rye
We need to talk about Kevin
Jasper Jones
The Rosie Project
Gulliver’s Travels
The Lord of the Rings
Author
Douglas Adams
Romy Ash
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
James Bradley
Lily Brett
Emily Bronte
Geraldine Brooks
John Boyne
John Boyne
Tracy Chevalier
Michelle De Kretser
Laura Van Den Berg
Emma Donoghue
Marina Endicott
Arthur Golden
Mark Haddon
Nick Hornby
Aldous Huxley
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jack Kerouac
Harper Lee
Robert Masello
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan
Herman Melville
Deborah Moggach
George Orwell
Ann Pratchett
Jonathan Safran Foer
JD Salinger
Lionel Shriver
Craig Silvey
Graeme Simsion
Jonathan Swift
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Title
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Time Machine
The Prayer Box
The Book Thief
Author
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Lisa Wingate
Markus Zusak
Young Adult & Junior Fiction
Title
The Secret Side of Empty
Hate is Such a Strong Word
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
Sandy Feet
The Secret Garden
Bird
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Graffiti Moon
The Maze Runner
Boy Overboard
Are You Seeing Me?
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon
Girl
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Invisible Hero
Survive
The Year of the Rat
The Dead I Know
An Abundance of Katherines
The Accident
The Bridge
Poppy
Butter
The Giver
So Much To Tell You
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Looking for Alibrandi
More Than This
Before I Fall
Wonder
Past the Shallows
Divergent
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Hobbit
Where Things Come Back
Wildlife
Author
Maria E. Andreu
Sarah Ayoub
John Boyne
Nikki Buick
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Crystal Chan
Stephen Chbosky
Cath Crowley
James Dashner
Morris Gelitzman
Darren Groth
Melissa Keil
C.S. Lewis
Elizabeth Fensham
Alex Morel
Clare Furniss
Scot Gardner
John Green
Kate Hendrick
Jane Higgins
Mary Hooper
Erin Lange
Lois Lowry
John Marsden
John Marsden
Melina Marchetta
Patrick Ness
Lauren Oliver
R.J. Palacio
Favel Parrett
Veronica Roth
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Corey Whaley
Fiona Woods
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Picture Books
Title
Author
The Tunnel
Into the Forest
Whoever You Are
A Bear and a Tree
Lost & Found
The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness
The Sound of the Sea
To the Top End: Our Trip Across
Australia
My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day
Ziba Came on a Boat
Once there was a Boy
Home and Away
The Rainbirds
Isabella’s Garden
Water Witcher
Where the Wild Things Are
The Arrival
The Rabbits
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Ride With Me
Fox
Jenny Angel
My Mother’s Eyes: The Story of a Boy
Soldier
Jesse
Luke’s Way of Looking
Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne
Mem Fox
Stephen Michael King
Oliver Jeffers
Colin Thompson
Jacqueline Harvey
Roland Harvey
Catriona Hoy
Liz Lofthouse
Dub Leffler
John Marsden & Matt Ottley
David Metzenthen and Sally Rippin
Glenda Millard & Rebecca Cool
Jan Ormerod
Maurice Sendak
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan
Jane Tanner
Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild
Mark Wilson
Tim Winton
Matt Ottley & Nadia Wheatley
Non-Fiction
Title
The Endeavor Journal of Joseph Banks
Mr Stuart’s track : the forgotten life of
Australia’s greatest explorer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy
Soldier
Marie Curie
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author
Sir Joseph Banks
John Bailey
The discovery of the tomb of
Tutankhamen
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph
Stow and My Family
The Peasant Prince
The Complete World of the Dead Sea
Scrolls
The Happiest Refuge: A Memoir
The Crossroad
Howard Carter
Ishmael Beah
Beverley Birch
Bill Bryson
Gabrielle Carey
Li Cunxin
Phillip Davies
Anh Do
Mark Donaldson
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Title
The French explorers and the Aboriginal
Australians 1772-1839
Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' great
adventures in the circumnavigation of
Australia
The Camel who crossed Australia
The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly
obsession in the Amazon
The dead sea scrolls: the essential guide
to their origin, meaning and significance
Explorers of the Nile : the triumph and
the tragedy of a great Victorian adventure
Into the Wild
1606, an epic adventure
Boys who Rocked the World: Heroes
from King Tut to Bruce Lee
Girls who Rocked the World: Heroines
from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
Meet Captain Cook
Tsunami and the single girl: one woman's
journey to become an aid worker and find
love
The Legend of the Seven Sisters: a
traditional Aboriginal story from Western
Australia
Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
Voyages of Discovery
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Wild: From Lost to Found
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius
who solved the greatest scientific
problem of his time
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
The Nightingale and the Rose
Maralinga: The Anangu Story
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for
education and was shot by the Taliban
Author
Colin Dyer
Tim Flannery
Jackie French
David Grann
Stephen Hodge
Tim Jeal
Jon Krakauer
Evan McHugh
Michelle Roehm McCann
Michelle Roehm McCann
Rae Murdie
Krissy Nicholson
May O’Brian
Kristina Olsson
Anthony Rice
Rebecca Skloot
Cheryl Strayed
Dava Sobel
Jeanette Walls
Oscar Wilde & Kathryn Del Barton
Yalata and Oak Valley Communities
Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
Graphic Novels
Title
Coraline
The Girl Who Owned a City
Persepolis
The Hobbit
Author
Neil Gaiman
Dan Jolley
Marjane Satrapi
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Films
Title
The Abyss
Avatar
The Black Balloon
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Divergent
Everything is Illuminated
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Finding Neverland
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Into the Wild
The Island
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Little Miss Sunshine
The Matrix
The Maze Runner
Title
Never Let Me Go
Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl
Persepolis
Prometheus
The Sapphires
Saving Mr Banks
The Secret Garden
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Shackleton
Shutter Island
Silver Linings Playbook
Tangled
Ten Canoes
The Truman Show
Up
White Oleander
The Wizard of Oz
Songs
Author
Title
Wake Me Up
After the Storm
At Seventeen
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking
For
Landslide
Let it Go
A Whole New World
Vincent
You Found Me
Avicii
Mumford & Sons
Janis Ian
U2
Stevie Nicks
Soundtrack of Frozen
Soundtrack of Aladdin
Don McLean
The Fray
Poems
Title
The One Who Goes Away
Journey to the Interior
Invictus
Americanised
Discovery
Author
Sujata Bhatt
Margaret Atwood
William Ernest Henley
Bruce Dawe
Wislawa Symborkska
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