Textbook List and How to Purchase

Spring 2026

The following textbooks will be used in FAES courses during the upcoming term. Please note that tuition does not include textbooks.

  • Purchase Online | To purchase the textbook from the FAES Bookstore online, please use the following link https://www.shopfaes.com/textbooks.
    • Holders of a valid sales tax-exemption certificate can make a qualified sales tax-exempt textbook purchase by emailing faesbookstore@nih.gov, or by calling (301) 496-5272. FAES reserves the right to require proof of a valid certificate on all purchases requesting sales tax-exemption. 
  • Purchase In-person | We also encourage students to visit the FAES Bookstore, located near the Masur Auditorium in Building 10 at the National Institutes of Health, to purchase textbooks.

Note: Please note that there may be an ebook version available through other resources.

Course # Requirement Level Author Title and Edition ISBN
BIOC 301 Textbook Required David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox Loose-Leaf version for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 8e + Achieve for Lehninger (2-term) 9781319408923
BIOF 395 Textbook Optional Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro and Tony Ojeda Applied Text Analysis with Python 9781491963043
BIOF 475 Textbook Required Nathan George Practical Data Science with Python: Learn tools and techniques from hands-on examples to extract insights from data, 2021 9781801071970
BIOF 501 Textbook Required Rafael A. Irizarry Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R 9781032116556
BIOF 509/ 510 Textbook Required Aurélien Géron Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 3rd Edition 9781098125974
ENGL 207/ 208 Textbook Required Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher
 		 Summit Level 2, 3rd edition 9780134498911
IMMU 403/ 420 Textbook Required Peter Parham The Immune System 5th Edition 9780393533354
LEAD 499 Textbook Required Amita Shukla United Mind: Rethinking How We Lead Our Lives, Work Together, and Change Our World 9780990906834
MATH 215/ 216 Textbook Required Gilbert Strang Introduction to Linear Algebra, 6 Edition 9781733146678
MEDI 345/ 346 Textbook Required Elaine Marieb and Katja Hoehn Human Anatomy & Physiology, 11th Edition 9780134580999
MICR 311 Textbook Required Robert Bauman Microbiology with Diseases by Body System 9780134477206
SPAN 101/ 102 Textbook Required Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman  The Ultimate Spanish 101: Complete First Year Course 101260453634
SPAN 208/ 209 Textbook Required Joanne Rios Complete Medical Spanish: Practical Medical Spanish for Quick and Confident Communication, Premium 4th Edition 9781260467895
STAT 323 Textbook Required David D. Celentano, Moyses Szklo and Youssef Farag Gordis Epidemiology 9780323877756
STAT 504 Textbook Required Kevin P. Murphy Probabilistic Machine Learning 9780262046824
Required fields are indicated by .