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8 books that America's most prestigious private schools love to assign for summer reading

Abby JacksonJul 10, 2016, 07:07 IST

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Business Insider recently reached out to the most prestigious private schools in the US to obtain their summer reading lists, and we got hundreds of titles.

The works spanned centuries, genres, and continents, to appeal to a wide array of students' personal reading tastes.

However, of the hundreds of books we pored through, eight works kept showing up on multiple schools' lists.