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.

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“Catch-22,” by Joseph Heller — 1961

Recommended at The College Preparatory School, Trinity School, and Choate Rosemary Hall.

From the book cover:

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