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In training to be an english teacher... my state's book recommendations are a bit worrying to me but I'd like to hear some thoughts.

>Recommended novels
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• Island: The complete stories (collection of short stories) — Alistair MacLeod
• Journey to the Stone Country — Alex Miller
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
• Persepolis: The story of a childhood (graphic novel) — Marjane Satrapi
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• Schindler’s Ark (also known as Schindler’s List) — Thomas Keneally
• Short stories by Frank O’Connor
• Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Swallow the Air — Tara June Winch
• Talking to My Country — Stan Grant
• The Boat (collection of short stories) — Nam Le
• The Cellist of Sarajevo — Steven Galloway
• The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Longest Memory — Fred D’Aguiar
• The Turning (collection of short stories) — Tim Winton
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — Rachel Joyce
• Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
• Year of Wonders — Geraldine Brooks

The actual resource is here
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/portal/snr_english_eal_prescribed_texts_list_2019-21.pdf

Am I an asshole for thinking that these books are so entry-level that I'd be wasting the kids' time?

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In training to be an english teacher... my state's book recommendations are a bit worrying to me but I'd like to hear some thoughts.

>Recommended novels
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• Island: The complete stories (collection of short stories) — Alistair MacLeod
• Journey to the Stone Country — Alex Miller
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
• Persepolis: The story of a childhood (graphic novel) — Marjane Satrapi
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• Schindler’s Ark (also known as Schindler’s List) — Thomas Keneally
• Short stories by Frank O’Connor
• Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Swallow the Air — Tara June Winch
• Talking to My Country — Stan Grant
• The Boat (collection of short stories) — Nam Le
• The Cellist of Sarajevo — Steven Galloway
• The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Longest Memory — Fred D’Aguiar
• The Turning (collection of short stories) — Tim Winton
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — Rachel Joyce
• Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
• Year of Wonders — Geraldine Brooks

The actual resource is here
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/portal/snr_english_eal_prescribed_texts_list_2019-21.pdf

Am I an asshole for thinking that these books are so entry-level that I'd be wasting the kids' time?