must read

“English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand: whilst pamphleteer or journalist reading for an argument for a party, or reading to write, or, at all events, for some by-end imposed on them, must read meanly and fragmentarily.”

English Traits (1856)

“But she had insisted he read it before he buried her, and somewhere in his mind a little voice was whispering that he must read it now, not later tonight after he had seen Paddy and Meggie, but now before he had seen anyone save Mary Carson.”

The Thorn Birds

“At last, when morning drew near, Mr. Maud suddenly exclaimed, “D-n me, I must read prayers this morning at All Souls!””

Life of Johnson

“If you want an excellent book on the subject of this cookie-cutter variation, you must read How to Build a Real Estate Money Machine by Wade Cook.”

Simon & Schuster: Creating Wealth

“That venerable structure, which contained the ashes of the Antonines, was a circular turret rising from a quadrangular basis; it was covered with the white marble of Paros, and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes; and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh, that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals, and hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Dr. LaHaye wrote many other books on temperament, and they are a must read for any serious student of the subject.”

Simon & Schuster: Thin, Rich and Happy

“Very true; take away the “waves,” “the winds,” and there will be no ship at all, not only for poetical, but for any other purpose; and take away “the sun,” and we must read Mr. Bowles's pamphlet by candle-light.”

Life of Lord Byron

“When he claims that my views about Arab scholars show contempt for them he clumsily misses the point I was making, that Western Orientalists don't feel they have to read Arab journals as much as Arabs feel they must read Western journals; this is the context of my remark about the absence of a "major" Arab journal.”

Orientalism: An Exchange

“In connection with this we must read Ps.ii. 2; lxviii. 4; xcvii.”

Commentary on Revelation