Supplementary+Texts

When you come to write your extended response for Question Three of Paper One, you will need to include detailed analysis of a variety of supplementary texts. Below is a list of books and films that you could consider for this section. Ideally, you want to end up with a range of texts from different text types that present differing ideas of belonging. This will give you more scope for comparing and constrasting and developing an in depth analysis. When you are considering a supplementary text, complete a Supplementary Text Analysis Grid in order to ensure that the text is suitable for use. The grid can be downloaded below.



//Things Fall Apart// – Chinua Achebe //Behind the Scenes at the Museum// – Kate Atkinson //The Handmaid’s Tale// – Margaret Atwood //Surfacing// – Margaret Atwood //To Sir With Love// – E.R. Braithwaite //The Cellist of Sarajevo// – Steven Galloway //Leaving Home// – Anits Brookner //March// – Geraldine Brooks //A Clockwork Orange// – Anthony Burgess //The Outsider// – Albert Camus //The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay// – Michael Chabon //Disgrace// – J.M. Coetzee //Heart of Darkness// – Joseph Conrad //The Power of One// – Bryce Courtenay //The Inheritance of Loss// – Kiran Desai //The Brothers Karamazov// – Fyodor Dostoyevsky //Once Were Warriors// – Alan Duff //The Count of Monte Cristo// – Alexandre Dumas //The Sound of One Hand Clapping// – Richard Flanagan //The Unknown Terrorist// – Richard Flanagan //The Hungry Tide// – Amitav Ghosh //Memoirs of a Geisha// – Arthur Golden //The Secret River// – Kate Grenville //The Forsyte Saga// – John Galsworthy //Dune// – Frank Herbert //About a Boy// – Nick Hornby //The Kite Runner// – Khaled Hosseini //A Thousand Splendid Suns// – Khaled Hosseini //The Hunchback of Notre Dame// – Victor Hugo //The Bone People// – Keri Hulme //Carry Me Down// – MJ Hyland //Never Let Me Go// – Kazuo Ishiguro //Heat and Dust// – Ruth Jhabvala //Mister Pip// – Lloyd Jones //Metamorphosis// – Franz Kafka //The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -// Tom Keneally //The Home Crowd// – Graham Kershaw //One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest// – Ken Kesey //The Poisonwood Bible// – B Kingsolver //The Namesake// – Jhumpa Lahiri //Interpreter of Maladies// – Jhumpa Lahiri //The Spy Who Came In From the Cold// – John Le Carre //A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine// – Marina Lewycka //The Life of Pi// – Yann Martel //A Far Country// – Daniel Mason //The Road// – Cormac McCarthy //A Child in Time// – Ian McEwan //Banana Bottom// – Claude McKay //The Memory of Running// – Ron McLarty //Breakfast at Tiffany’s// – Truman Capote //Family Matters// – R Mistry //The Deep End of the Ocean// – Jacquelyn Mitchard //The Orchard// – Drusilla Modjeska //Kafka on the Shore// – Mirakami Haruki //A House for Mr Biswas// – V.S. Naipul //The Mimic Men// – V.S. Naipul //We Were the Mulvaneys// – Joyce Carol Oates //Our Fathers// – Andrew O’Hagen //Nineteen Eighty Four// – George Orwell //Homage to Catalonia// – George Orwell //Cry, The Beloved Country// – Alan Paton //My Sister’s Keeper// – Jodie Picoult //The Shipping News// – Annie Proulx //Wide Sargasso Sea// – Jean Rhys //Interview with the Vampire// – Anne Rice //The God of Small Things// – Arundhati Roy //The Satanic Verses// – Salman Rushdie //The Catcher in the Rye// – JD Salinger //The Lovely Bones// – Alice Sebold //The Thirteenth Tale// – Diane Setterfield //Dracula// – Bram Stoker //Uncle Tom’s Cabin// – Harriet Beecher Stowe //We Need to Talk About Kevin// – Lionel Shriver //White Teeth// – Zadie Smith //The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles// – Elizabeth Stead //Digging to America// – Anne Tyler //The Road From Coorain// – Jill Ker Conway //Exodus// – Leon Uris //Breath// – Tim Winton //The Riders// – Tim Winton //The Turning// – Tim Winton //Live and Learn// – Joan Didion //Crime and Punishment// – Fyodor Dostoyevski //The Dispossessed// – Ursula LeGuin //For Whom The Bell Tolls// – Ernest Hemingway //The Grapes of Wrath// - John Steinbeck //Highways to a War// - Christopher J. Koch //The Fountainhead// - Ayn Rand //Invisible Man -// Ralph Ellison //The Scarlet Letter// - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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// About a Boy // // American History X // // An Angel at my Table // // As it is in Heaven // // Babel // // Batman // // Beneath Clouds // // Big Wednesday // // The Breakfast Club // // Boys Don’t Cry // // Brokeback Mountain // // A Clockwork Orange // // Cruel Intentions // // Dead Poet’s Society // // The December Boys // // Donnie Darko // // The Elephant Man // // Fight Club // // Finding Forrester // // Fried Green Tomatoes // // Ghandi // // Gattaca // // Girl, Interrupted // // Open Range // // Red River // // In America // // Into the Wild // // Interview with the Vampire // // K-Pax // // The Kite Runner // // Life is Beautiful // // Little Miss Sunshine // // Look Both Ways // // Mad Max // // Malcolm X // // Memoirs of a Geisha // // Miss Potter // // Monsoon Wedding // // Napoleon Dynamite // // Nineteen Eighty Four // // A Few Good Men // // Once Were Warriors // // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest // // One Night the Moon // // Pan’s Labyrinth // // Philadelphia // // The Pursuit of Happyness // // Rabbit Proof Fence // // River Queen // // Rebel Without a Cause // // Schindler’s List // // Shine // // Somersault // // Little Fish // // Tales from a Suitcase // // The Proposition // // Trainspotting // // Transamerica // // V for Vendetta // // Walkabout // // Water // // Yolngu Boy Glory // //Breakfast at Tiffany's Looking for Alibrandi Dirty Dancing It's a Wonderful Life The Fifth Element Empire of the Sun//