The following texts are suggestions for the study of English. These examples are not meant to be prescriptive or exhaustive, but are indicative of the nature of appropriate texts.

• Alderman, N., The Power
• Ammaniti, N., I'm not scared
• Anderson, B., Amber Road
• Atwood, M., The Handmaid's Tale
• Behrendt, L., Home
• Blackman, M., Noughts and Crosses
• Brooks, G., Year of Wonders
• Clarke, M.B., Foreign Soil
• Coleman, D., Mazin Grace
• Dalton, T., Boy Swallows Universe
• de Waal, E., The Hare with Amber Eyes
• Doerr, A., All the Light We Cannot See
• Drewe, R., Grace
• Funder, A., Stasiland
• Galloway, S., The Cellist of Sarajevo
• Goldsworthy, P., Maestro
• Groth, D., Are you Seeing Me?
• Haddon, M., Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Ham, R., The Dressmaker
• Hashimi, N., The Pearl That Broke its Shell
• Hickie, A., An Ordinary Epidemic
• Hirata, A., The Rainbow Troops
• Hosseini, K., And the Mountains Echoed
• Jones, L., Five Bells
• Jones, L., Mr Pip
• Joyce, R., The Unlikely Pilgrimage ofHarold Fry
• Joyce, R., Perfect
• Kent, H., Burial Rites
• Lafaye, V., Summertime
• Lawson, M., Crow Lake
• Lee, H., To Kill a Mockingbird
• Lockhardt, E., We the Liars
• Malouf, D., Fly Away Peter
• Macgregor, V., What Milo Saw
• McCall Smith, A., The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• McFarlane, F., The Night Guest
• McGahan, A., The White Earth
• Merriman,T., & Brochu, L., The Leopard Tree
• Miller, A., Journey to the Stone Country
• Moloney, J., Touch me
• Munkara, M., Of Ashes and Rivers that Flow to the Sea
• Munkara, M., Every Secret Thing
• O'Farrell, M., The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
• Orwell, G., 1984
• Parrett, F., Past the Shallows
• Salinger, J.D., Catcher in the Rye
• Saunders, G., Fox 8
• Scott Fitzgerald, F., The Great Gatsby
• Shusterman, F., Unwind
• Silvey, C., Jasper Jones
• Simsion, G., The Rosie Project
• Spiegelman, A., Maus (graphic novel)
• Stedman, M.L., The Light Between Oceans
• Steinbeck, J., Of Mice and Men
• Thompson, W., The Age of Miracles
• Tsiolkas, C., The Slap
• Williams, N., History of the Rain
• Winch, T., Swallow the Air
• Winton, T., Cloudstreet
• Winton, T., The Turning (short stories)
• Xue, X., Sky Burial
• Zable, A., Sea of Many Returns
• Zusak, M., The Messenger