Text Pairings

Below is a list of common text pairings currently being used in schools. Please feel free to email us with any more so we can keep adding to the list.

With thanks to the collective wisdom of members of the ETAQ Facebook page.

‘The Great Gatsby’ +

The Big Short

The Wolf of Wall Street

Park Avenue

Crazy Rich Asians

Legally Blonde

Little Miss Sunshine

Citizen Kane

Jean de Florette

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Truman Show

Mabo

Pleasantville

Tsotsi

Hidden Figures

The Castle

An Inspector Calls

Gattaca

Of Mice and Men

Slumdog Millionaire

He’s Just Not That Into You

Mean Girls

‘1984’ +

Black Mirror

Metropolis

Hunger Games

The Watchmen

The Matrix

Fahrenheit 451

Elysium

The Truman Show

The Hunger Games

Brave New World

Children of Men

Blade Runner

Gattaca

Minority Report

V for Vendetta

Maze Runner

Cleverman

The Handmaid’s Tale

‘Jasper Jones’ +

The Sapphires

The Dry

Mystery Road

Shawshank Redemption

Beneath Clouds

The Story of Tom Brennan

To Kill a Mockingbird

Looking for Alibrandi

Australian Rules

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

To Kill a Mockingbird

Looking for Alibrandi

Australian Rules

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Lion

The Castle

The Merger

The Dressmaker

The Castle

The Merger

Lion

‘The Crucible’ +

Mean Girls

Burial Rites

The Good People

Gran Torino

Frankenstein

Persepolis

Year of Wonders

Jasper Jones

General Pairings

To Kill a Mockingbird + Hidden Figures

The Cellist of Sarajevo + Schindler’s List

Blade Runner + Never Let Me Go

Jane Eyre + Brooklyn

Looking for Alibrandi + Lion

Lion + Swallow the Air

Swallow the Air + Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Suitable Public Texts

Electric Literature

Voiceworks

Kill Your Darlings

The Conversation

Metro Magazine

Lit Hub

Rolling Stone Magazine – youth edition

Write the World