Reading is a significant and mass phenomenon, but the scientific research of various aspects of reading culture, such as the attitude of students towards required reading assignments, is scarce. Research on assigned reading in Croatia is mainly requested by media outlets for the purpose of publishing sensational titles. The results provided to media outlets by research agencies are of questionable scientific and methodological validity. The aim of this paper is to analyse how students and teachers perceive the attitude of students towards fulfilling the requirements pertaining to reading assignments with the purpose of devising efficient reading strategies. The research was conducted on the sample of 451 final year students in five high schools in Zagreb and 102 teachers of those final year students in the 2017-2018 school year. The results of the research indicate that there is a statistically significant difference between students and teachers in the perception of students' attitude towards assigned reading, where teachers believe to a greater extent than students that students in their school have a positive attitude towards reading assignments.