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