required texts

Assigned course books

Required texts are books or other materials that students must read for a course, as distinguished from recommended or optional readings.

The term appears primarily in academic contexts—syllabi, course catalogs, campus bookstores: The required texts for this semester cost over three hundred dollars.

Also called required reading.

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