2014-2015 A.P. BOOKS
Some A.P. textbooks may be purchased new or used through any online store. For your information, those book
titles along with ISBN numbers are provided below.
A.P. CHEMISTRY
A.P. Chemistry textbooks are $155 and will be purchased directly from St. Thomas More Catholic High School
during the first week of school.
A.P. ENGLISH III
All A.P. English III books will be purchased from And Books II during student orientation on Friday, August 8,
2014. This book information will be in the packet emailed home during the summer.
A.P. ENGLISH IV
A.P. English IV books will be sold by And Books II in the fall, but students are able to search online for used and
less expensive copies.
First Semester Books:
PLEASE NOTE: Since AP English Literature and Language course focuses on literary analysis, it is very important that all
students have the same editions of the texts we study so that everyone is on the same page.
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Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Revised Edition (ISBN-10: 0062301675)
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (ISBN-10: 080214442X)
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (ISBN-10: 0199536368)
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (ISBN-10: 1936594005)
Shakespeare’s Hamlet Folger’s edition (ISBN-10: 074347712X)
Popkin’s Vocabulary Power through Shakespeare (ISBN-10: 0929166035)
Second Semester Books:
PLEASE NOTE: Since AP English Literature and Language course focuses on literary analysis, it is very important that all
students have the same editions of the texts we study so that everyone is on the same page.
 Camus’s The Stranger (ISBN-10: 0679720200)
 Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (ISBN-10: 0141441674)
 Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (ISBN-10: 0060883286)
 Orwell’s 1984 (ISBN-10: 0451524934)
If purchasing books online, please note that students must have their textbook on the first day of school,
Monday, August 11, 2014.
HISTORY
MATH
A.P. EUROPEAN HISTORY – You may purchase History
books from students who took this AP class in 20132014.
A.P. CALCULUS – You may purchase this book from
Publisher Wiley and receive high school student
discounts.
The Western Heritage Since 1300
A.P. Edition
Calculus: Single Variable
6th Edition
Author: Donald Kagan, Steven
Ozment, and Frank M.Turner
Size: 8.5 x 11
ISBN10: 0131732927
Publisher: Upper Saddle River
A.P. AMERICAN HISTORY – You may purchase History
books from students who took this AP class in 20132014.
Authors: Deborah HughesHallett, William G. McCallum,
Andrew M. Gleason, et al.
ISBN 978-0-470-88853-7
Publisher Wiley
A.P. CALCULUS - This is a workbook and should be
purchased new.
Barron’s AP Calculus
12th edition
The American Pageant: A History
of the Republic
ISBN-10: 1438002041
Publisher: Barron's Educational
Series
Author: David Kennedy; Thomas
A. Bailey; Lizabeth Cohen
ISBN 10: 0-618-47940-6
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Company
A.P. U.S. GOVERNMENT - This
A.P. STUDIO ART
We the People: An Introduction to
American Politics (9th Edition)
All materials and supplies will be purchased through
the STM Art Department at the start of school.
Author: Benjamin Ginsberg,
Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir,
Caroline J. Tolbert
ISBN 978-0-393-91308-8
Publisher W.W. Norton and
Company
If purchasing books online, please note that students must have their textbook on the first day of school,
Monday, August 11, 2014.