From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishset book/text etcset book/text etcBritish EnglishSEEXAM/TEST a book that must be studied for an examination → set
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set book/text etc• But not in his set books!• So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.• One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.• Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.• When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound. 