from typing import List


def read_docs(fnames: List[str]) -> List[str]:
    """
    Reads in the documents.

    param fnames: List of paths to .txt files to read.
    returns: List of input documents.
    """
    all_docs = []
    for docfile in fnames:
        doc = open(docfile, 'r').read()
        all_docs.append(doc)
    return all_docs