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The primary purpose of this study is to analyze sixteen reading topics of ten high school EnglishⅠ textbooks, developed according to the 7th National Curriculum. In addition, the study investigated how much the reading topics in these textbooks reflect students’ and teachers’ interests. To this end, data were collected from 539 students and 44 teachers in Chungbuk with questionnaires. The results show that textbooks generally present a variety of topics that could attract both students’ and teachers’ interests, but there are some cases to fail to do so as follows. First, the reading topics of ten different textbooks thoroughly included sixteen topics presented in the 7th National Curriculum. However, there were some instances where a certain reading topic was presented several times in a textbook. Second, there were significant differences in the students’ interest about reading topics presented in textbooks by regional groups, sex and publishing companies. There was also a sharp contrast in the interests between teachers and students about fifteen reading topics with the exception of one topic(①). Finally, students’ interest about fifteen reading topics was lower than that of teachers’. In other words, teachers had more interest in textbooks than students. The results of the study accordingly suggest that students’ degrees of interest should be considered in textbook development and the next curriculum.