The texts will be part of the National 5 English qualification, due to replace Standard Grade in 2013/14.
Confirmed prose works range from one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classics, Kidnapped, to the more recent novel The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson.
Poetry by Edwin Morgan and the current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy are also among other texts included as expected.
Other writers include Ann Marie di Mambro, who wrote Tally’s Blood, a Scottish-Italian romantic comedy set in the Second World War, and Rona Munro, author of Bold Girls, a play about three women in Belfast.
Ann Donovan, who wrote Hieroglyphics and Other Stories, and Ena Lamont Stewart – Men Should Weep – set in Glasgow in the Great Depression, are also on the list.
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