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Reasons for Writing (106) Title Author ISBN Notes Paradise Lost John Milton 9780140424393 No used or e-book editions. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 9780141439518 No used or e-book editions. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1st ed.) Joseph M. Williams 9780226899152 This is an out of print edition, but it is

available used through Amazon Marketplace.

Course packet n/a n/a This reading packet will be available at school on the first day of class.

Short Story (121) Title Author ISBN Notes Mystery and Manners Flannery O’Connor 9780374508043

Used okay. No e-book editions.


NOTE: Students will receive their book lists for the required English courses (English 9, 10, 11, and 12) when they receive their section placements at the end of August. These courses will begin with reading handouts.

Fiction Writing (141) Title Author ISBN Notes The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Twyla Tharp & Mark Reiter

9780743235273 Used okay. No e-book editions.


Shakespeare: Language and the Self (156) Title Author ISBN Notes As You Like It (Pelican, 2017) William Shakespeare 9780143130239 No used or e-book editions. Richard II (Pelican, 2017) William Shakespeare 9780143130215 No used or e-book editions. The Sonnets (Pelican, 2001) William Shakespeare 9780140714531 No used or e-book editions. Twelfth Night (Pelican, 2016) William Shakespeare 9780143128595 No used or e-book editions.

HISTORY Ancient History (201) Title Author ISBN Notes Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture, Vol. 1 (19th ed.)

Joshua Cole & Carol Symes

9780393614312 E-book edition okay. No used books.

Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius

James Romm, ed. 9780872207271 No used or e-book editions.

A Pocket Guide to Writing History (8th ed.) Mary Lynn Rampolla 9781457690884 Used and e-book editions okay. The Roman World: A Sourcebook David Cherry 9780631217848 No used or e-book editions. Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations (2nd ed.)

D. Brendan Nagle & Stanley M. Burstein

9780199978458 No used or e-book editions.

The Essential Iliad Homer 0872205428 This was the required summer reading for this course. If you did not purchase this book at the beginning of the summer, please be sure to have it by the start of school.

Medieval World History (202) One or two additional books may be assigned once students have received their section placements. Title Author ISBN Notes Medieval Societies Barbara Grant n/a This textbook will be available at school

on the first day of class. Sourcebook n/a n/a This sourcebook will be available at

school on the first day of class.

United States History (203) Title Author ISBN Notes Give Me Liberty! An American History, Vol. 1: To 1877 (2nd ed.)

Eric Foner 9780393930276 This is an out of print edition. Inexpensive copies are available at Amazon and elsewhere – or you could acquire one from a senior!

Give Me Liberty! An American History, Vol. 2: From 1865 (2nd ed.)

Eric Foner 9780393930283 See above.

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon 9780809001583 This was the required summer reading for this course. Students do not need to buy this book; reading a copy from the library is just fine. We will send out a series of extra credit questions in August.

Sourcebook n/a n/a This sourcebook will be available at school on the first day of class.

City of Boston (221) Title Author ISBN Notes Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas 9780394746166

Students do not need to buy this book – a library copy is fine. See summer reading list for recommended chapters!


Modern European History (232) Title Author ISBN Notes Collins Atlas of 20th Century History Richard Overy, ed. 9780060890728 Used and e-book editions okay.

Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture, Vol. 2 (19th ed.)

Joshua Cole & Carol Symes

9780393614329 Used and e-book editions okay.

Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1500 (7th ed.)

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, et al.


The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell, trans.

9780803226616 No used or e-book editions.

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (8th ed.)

Mary Lynn Rampolla 9781457690884 You may use your copy from Ancient History. Used and e-book editions okay.

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe

James J. Sheehan 9780547086330

Used books okay. No e-book editions.

The Landscape of History John Lewis Gaddis 9780195171570 Used and e-book editions okay.

For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

James R. Gaines 9780393061383 This was the required summer reading for this course. If you did not purchase this book at the beginning of the summer, please be sure to have it by the start of school.


Empires & Nationalism (240) Title Author ISBN Notes A Short History of Iraq (2nd ed.) Thabit Abdullah 9781405859370 Used and e-book editions okay. Collins Atlas of 20th Century History Richard Overy, ed. 9780060890728 Used and e-book editions okay.

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th-Century Europe

Norman M. Naimark 9780674009943 Used and e-book editions okay.

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

Yasmin Khan 9780300143331 Used and e-book editions okay.

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Vali Nasr 9780393329681 Used and e-book editions okay.

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference

Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper


Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo Roger Cohan 9780812991789

This was the required summer reading for this class. If you did not purchase this book at the beginning of the summer, please be sure to have it by the start of school.


History of Modern East Asia (245) Title Author ISBN Notes The Search for Modern China (3rd ed.) Jonathan D. Spence 9780393934519 Used books okay. No e-book editions The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (3rd ed.)

Janet Chen, Pei-Kai Cheng, & Michael Lestz

9780393920857 Used books okay. No e-book editions

Japan: Tradition and Transformation (Revised ed.)

Albert Craig & Edwin Reischauer

9780395496961 Used books okay. No e-book editions


Modern Islamic Societies (248) Title Author ISBN Notes Sourcebook n/a n/a This sourcebook will be available at

school on the first day of class.

HUMANITIES Economics (231) Title Author ISBN Notes Economics: Principles and Policy (13th ed.) William J. Baumol &

Alan S. Blinder 9781305280595 Used and e-book editions okay.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel 9780393352245 Used and e-book editions okay.

Naked Economics Charles Wheelan 9780393337648

This was the required summer reading for this class. If you did not purchase this book at the beginning of the summer, please be sure to have it by the start of school.

Politics & Policy (249) One or two additional books may be assigned during the school year. Title Author ISBN Notes White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

Joan C. Williams 9781633693784 Used okay. No e-book editions.

It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein

9780465074730 (1st ed.) 9780465096206 (Expanded ed.)

The new (2017) edition has additional material at the beginning and end which we won't read. Those who might be interested in how the authors view Donald Trump should buy the later version!

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis Robert D. Putnam 9781476769905 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill

T. R. Reid 9780716711728 This was the required summer reading for this course. Students do not need to buy this book. The first assignment, however, is to write up the steps—including backroom dealing—in how a bill becomes a law.

Sourcebooks n/a n/a Sourcebooks will be distributed throughout the year.

Language & Ethics (401) Title Author ISBN Notes Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers

Magedah E. Shabo 9781608439737 Used and e-book editions okay.

Readings in Ethics (402) Title Author ISBN Notes Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God Stephen Mitchell,

trans. 9780451528445 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael Sandel 9780374532505 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9780679732761 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance 9780062300546 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Psychology: Special Topics (421) Title Author ISBN Notes Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Sigmund Freud 9780684829463 Used okay.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Philip Zimbardo 9780812974447 Used okay.

Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

Allen Frances 9780062229267 Used okay.

Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us

Claude M. Steele 9780393062496 Used okay.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum 9780465083619 Used okay.

Psychology (11th ed.) David G. Meyers & C. Nathan DeWall

9781464140815

Purchase of Meyers textbook is optional. I will distribute PDF versions of the selected section of textbook that are assigned. If you want to have the text as a general resource, feel free to buy it, though!

Film Analysis: World Cinema (432) Title Author ISBN Notes Film Art: An Introduction (10th ed.) David Bordwell &

Kristin Thompson 9780073535104


Health & Community (800) Title Author ISBN Notes Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (4th ed.)

Cynthia Kuhn & Scott Swartzwelder

9780393344516 Used okay.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives (3rd ed.) Ruth Bell 9780812929904 Used okay.

LANGUAGE French 1 (301) Title Author ISBN Notes Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach (6th ed.)

Tracy D. Terrell & Mary B. Rogers


Cahier d’exercises to accompany Deux Mondes

n/a 9780077412708 No used or e-book editions.

Bantam New College French and English Dictionary

n/a 9780553274110 Used okay. No e-book editions.

French 2 (302) Title Author ISBN Notes Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach (6th ed.)

Tracy D. Terrell & Mary B. Rogers

9780073535449 Students who took French 1 last year may reuse this book and the exercise book and dictionary below.

Cahier d’exercises to accompany Deux Mondes

n/a 9780077412708 See above.


n/a 9780553274110 See above.

English Grammar for Students of French: The Study Guide for Those Learning French (6th ed.)

Jacqueline Morton 9780934034371 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Histoire d’une révanche Alexandre Dumas 9780130340429 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Lettres de mon moulin Alphonse Daudet 9782253005254 Used okay. No e-book editions.

French 3 (303) Title Author ISBN Notes La grammaire à l’oeuvre (5th ed.) John Barson 9780759398092 Used is okay, but you will also need to

purchase access to the online part of the book.


n/a 9780553274110 Feel free to reuse your edition from French 1 and French 2.

Voix du siècle Eunice C. Smith 9780155950061 This is an out of print work, but there are many inexpensive copies available through Amazon Marketplace.

L’étranger Albert Camus 9782070360024 or

B0006AU7XE

Be sure to purchase the Brée edition. Used okay.

Tintin: Les sept boules de cristal Hergé 9782203001121 Used okay. No e-book editions.

À bout de souffle (filmscript) Jean-Luc Godard n/a This script will be provided in class.

French 4 Conversation (304) Title Author ISBN Notes Mieux écrire en français (2nd ed.) Michèle R. Morris 9780878402250 Used okay. En attendant Godot Samuel Beckett 9782707301482 Used okay.

Sept histoires qui reviennent de loin Jean-Christophe Rufin 9782070447985 Used okay.

Tintin: Le temple du soleil Hergé 9782203001138 Used okay.

Jeux interdits (filmscript) René Clément n/a This script will be provided in class.

Les yeux sans visage (filmscript) Georges Franju n/a This script will be provided in class.

Taschen art book n/a n/a An art book will be distributed to you in class.

French 4 Literature (305) Title Author ISBN Notes Combray Marcel Proust 9780245531736 Be sure to purchase the Brée edition; it is

out of print but available through Amazon Marketplace.

Le Tartuffe Molière 2030346675 Used okay.

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 9782080706577 Used okay.

Tristan et Iseut Joseph Bedier, ed. 2264003790 Used okay.

Spanish 1 (321) Title Author ISBN Notes Aula Internacional 1: Grammar and vocabulary companion (English ed.)

n/a 9788415846888 Be sure to purchase the edition with English instructions. Used okay.

Aula Internacional 1 n/a 9788415846772 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Aula Internacional 2 n/a 9788415640103 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Spanish 2 (322) Title Author ISBN Notes Aula Internacional 2 n/a 9788415640103 Feel free to reuse your edition from

Spanish 1. Aula Internacional 3 n/a 9788415640110 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Spanish 3 (323) Title Author ISBN Notes Los cachorros Mario Vargas Llosa 9788437627205 Used okay. Peru reading packet n/a n/a This reading packet will be available at

school on the first day of class. Sourcebook n/a n/a See above.

Spanish 4 Literature (324) Title Author ISBN Notes Tan lejos de Dios Ana Castillo 9780452280045 Used okay. No e-book editions. Cuando era Puertorriqueña Esmeralda Santiago 9780679756774 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Más allá de mí Francisco Jiménez 9780547250311 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Norte Edmundo Paz Soldán 9780307949172 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Soñar en cubano Cristina García 9780345391391 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Spanish 5 (330) Title Author ISBN Notes Cien años de soledad Gabriel García

Márquez 9780307474728 Used okay.

El beso de la mujer araña Manuel Puig 9780679755456 Used okay. Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 9781592328932 Used okay. Sourcebook n/a n/a This sourcebook will be available at

school on the first day of class. Latin 1 (331) Title Author ISBN Notes Jenney’s First Year Latin Charles Jenney 9780133193282 Used okay. No e-book editions. It is very

important to get the correct edition. Latin 2 (332) Title Author ISBN Notes Jenney’s First Year Latin Charles Jenney 9780133193282 Feel free to reuse your copy from Latin

1. It is very important to get the correct edition.

Jenney’s Second Year Latin Charles Jenney 9780137973903 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Latin 3 (333) Title Author ISBN Notes Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary n/a 9780198610052 Used okay. No e-book editions. Ovid: Amores, Metamorphoses: Selections Ovid 9780865164314 Used okay. No e-book editions. The Student’s Catullus Catullus 9780806142326 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Mandarin 1 (351) Title Author ISBN Notes Ni Hao 1 Workbook (Simplified Character ed.)

Shumang Fredlein & Paul Fredlein

9781876739072 Used okay.

Ni Hao Level 1 Textbook (Simplified Character ed.)

Shumang Fredlein 9781876739065 Used okay.

Mandarin 2 (352) Title Author ISBN Notes Ni Hao Level 3 Textbook (Simplified Character ed.)

Shumang Fredlein & Paul Fredlein

9781876739546 Used okay.

Ni Hao 3 Workbook (Simplified Character ed.)

Shumang Fredlein B01JXQEQMO This book is out of print but is available used.

Mandarin 3 (353) Title Author ISBN Notes Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 (Simplified and Traditional Character)

Yuehua Liu & Tao-chung Yao

9780887276798 Used okay.

Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 Workbook (Simplified and Traditional Character)


9780887276835 Used okay.

Mandarin 4 (354) Title Author ISBN Notes Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 (Simplified and Traditional Character)


9780887276798 Students who took Mandarin 3 last year can use the same textbook.



9780887276835 See above.

Mandarin 4B (358) Title Author ISBN Notes Integrated Chinese: Level 2, Part 1 (Simplified and Traditional Character)


9780887276798 Students who took Mandarin 3 last year can use the same textbook.



9780887276835 See above.

SCIENCE Biology 1 (501) Title Author ISBN Notes Miller & Levine Biology Ken Miller &

Joe Levine 9780133235746

Pay close attention to the ISBN of the book you purchase. The shorter version of the textbook will not work! Used okay; no e-book editions.

Biology 2 (502) Title Author ISBN Notes Campbell Biology (10th ed.) Jane R. Reece &

Lisa A. Urry 9780321775658


Gene Expression & Regulation (510) Title Author ISBN Notes Sourcebook n/a n/a This sourcebook will be available at

school on the first day of class. Chemistry 1 Advanced (521) Title Author ISBN Notes Chemistry (12th ed.) Raymond Chang &

Kenneth Goldsby 9780078021510 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Student Solutions Manual for Chemistry Raymond Chang & Kenneth Goldsby

9781259286223 This book is recommended, not required.

Safety goggles n/a n/a Safety goggles will be available at school on the first day of class.

Chemistry 1 (522) Title Author ISBN Notes General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts (7th ed.)

Raymond Chang & Kenneth Goldsby


Workbook with Solutions to accompany General Chemistry

Raymond Chang & Kenneth Goldsby


Safety goggles n/a n/a Safety goggles will be available at school on the first day of class.

Chemistry 2 (523) Title Author ISBN Notes Chemistry (12th ed.) Raymond Chang &

Kenneth Goldsby 9780078021510 Pay attention to the edition – students

who took Chem 1 Advanced last year should have the 12th edition already; students who took Chem 1 Advanced two years ago will need to get the newer edition. Used okay; no e-book editions.

Student Solutions Manual for Chemistry Raymond Chang & Kenneth Goldsby


Safety goggles n/a n/a Safety goggles will be available at school on the first day of class, or you can reuse your goggles from Chem 1.

Computer Science 3 (537) Title Author ISBN Notes The Algorithm Design Manual (2nd ed.) Steven S. Skiena 9781848000698 Used and e-book editions okay.

Physics 1 (541) Title Author ISBN Notes Physics (9th ed.) John D. Cutnell &

Kenneth W. Johnson 9780470879528 Used okay.

Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Physics

John D. Cutnell & Kenneth W. Johnson

9780470879566 Used okay.

Graph paper n/a n/a Please have graph paper available for homework.

Physics 1 Accelerated (551) Title Author ISBN Notes Physics: Principles with Applications (7th ed.)

Douglas C. Giancoli 9780321625922 n/a

Physics 1 Advanced (552) Title Author ISBN Notes University Physics, Vol. 1 (14th ed.) Hugh D. Young &

Roger A. Freedman 9780133978049 Used okay. No e-book editions. This is a

new edition, so it cannot be bought / traded from a student who previously took this course at Commonwealth.

Physics 2 (553) Title Author ISBN Notes University Physics, Vol. 2 (14th ed.) Hugh D. Young &

Roger A. Freedman 9780133978001 Used okay. No e-book editions. This is a

new edition, so it cannot be bought / traded from a student who previously took this course at Commonwealth.

Theory of Relativity (557) Title Author ISBN Notes Introduction to Special Relativity James H. Smith 9780486688954 Used okay.

Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einstein 9781420946338 Used okay.


MATHEMATICS Geometry Advanced (601) Title Author ISBN Notes A Course in Geometry: After Euclid and His Descendants

n/a n/a

This textbook will be available at school on the first day of class.

Geometry (602) Title Author ISBN Notes A Course in Geometry: Plane and Solid Arthur W. Weeks &

Jackson B. Adkins 9781881764069

Used okay.

Intermediate Algebra (610) Title Author ISBN Notes Elementary and Intermediate Algebra (5th ed.)

Alan S. Tussy & R. David Gustafson



Algebra 2/Precalculus Advanced (615) Title Author ISBN Notes College Algebra and Trigonometry: A Unit Circle Approach (5th ed.)

Mark Dugopolski 9780321644770 Used okay. No e-book editions.

Algebra 2/Precalculus (616) Title Author ISBN Notes College Algebra and Trigonometry: A Unit Circle Approach (5th ed.)

Mark Dugopolski 9780321644770 Used okay. No e-book editions.


Calculus 1 Advanced (622) Title Author ISBN Notes Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals (6th ed.)

James Stewart 9780495011699

This is an older edition of the textbook; it is available used on Amazon.

Calculus 1 (623) Title Author ISBN Notes Calculus I with Precalculus: A One-Year Course (2nd ed.)

Ron Larson & Robert P. Hostetler

9780618568062 Used okay.

Calculus 2 (631) Title Author ISBN Notes Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals (8th ed.)

James Stewart 9781305270336 Used okay. This is a new edition, so it cannot be bought / traded from a student who previously took this course at Commonwealth.

Student Solutions Manual for Single Variable Calculus

James Stewart 9781305272422 See above.

Theoretical Calculus (632) Title Author ISBN Notes Calculus (4th ed.) Michael Spivak 9780914098911 Used okay.

Calculus 2 Advanced: Multivariable (634) Title Author ISBN Notes Multivariable Calculus (7th ed.) James Stewart 9780538497879 Used okay.

Statistics (1/2 Credit) (642) Title Author ISBN Notes Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (8th ed.)

David S. Moore, et al. 9781464158933 Used okay. This is a new edition, so it cannot be bought / traded from a student who previously took this course at Commonwealth.

Abstract Algebra (643) Title Author ISBN Notes Abstract Algebra (3rd ed.) I. N. Herstein 9780471368793 Used okay.

Statistics (644) Title Author ISBN Notes Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (8th ed.)

David S. Moore, et al. 9781464158933 Used okay. This is a new edition, so it cannot be bought / traded from a student

who previously took this course at Commonwealth.

The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, Politics, and in Life

Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot

9781592404858 This was the required summer reading for this course. If you did not purchase this book at the beginning of the summer, please be sure to have it by the start of school.

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