Pacific Senior Secondary Certificate – English

Works this syllabus prescribes. ReadingRate holds 28 of the 135 it names. The copy read was a republication, not the issuing body's own. Recorded by the Canons dataset (Andrew Piper, CC BY 4.0).

• A Man of the People (1966) by Chinua Achebe
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl
• Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
• Hatchet (1987) by Gary Paulsen
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
• No Longer at Ease (1960) by Chinua Achebe
• Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
• Othello (1603) by William Shakespeare
• Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
• Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
• The Cay (1969) by Theodore Taylor
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros
• The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Merchant of Venice (1600) by William Shakespeare
• The Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton
• The Pearl (1947) by John Steinbeck
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot
• Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson