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I was hoping we could compile a list of pre-med texts that people on here are fond of (for self study etc). Maybe we could stick to a format as follows, but maybe mods can suggest alternatives. Feel free to add topics if I haven't covered them all. Hopefully we can compile a solid list of resources. I will start.

General Chemistry:
Chemistry: the central science (10th)

Organic Chemistry:

General Biology:

Microbiology:

Genetics:

General Physics:

Anatomy and Physiology:

These are the books I used are below. Of all of them, I really like my o-chem book and g-chem books. Thought they were clear and had a lot of good examples. I hated my physics book (problems explained were much too simple and questions at end of chapter were much too difficult... my pet peeve of any math/science book).

General Chemistry:
Chemistry: the central science (11th)

Organic Chemistry:
Organic Chemistry (Brown, Foote, Iverson) (4th)

General Biology:
Campbell Biology (4th): I took this class a long time ago, looks like they are up to edition number 9 now.

Microbiology: DID NOT TAKE

Genetics: DID NOT TAKE

General Physics: My first and second semester used completely different books. First semester used College Physics (Geller & Young) (8th) and my second semester (starting in a week) is using Physics: Principles w/ Applications (6th)

Anatomy and Physiology:
I took a class in physiology in college (don't remember the textbook). I later took a quarter worth of A&P (moved east to west for work so couldn't finish the other two quarters). The second time the textbook was Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology - Martini (7th).

Not really sure why this is necessary. If a textbook is in existence, odds are it's being used somewhere. You can easily find user reviews from a much larger population using Amazon.

Originally Posted by LoLCareerGoals

I was hoping we could compile a list of pre-med texts that people on here are fond of (for self study etc). Maybe we could stick to a format as follows, but maybe mods can suggest alternatives. Feel free to add topics if I haven't covered them all. Hopefully we can compile a solid list of resources. I will start.

General Chemistry:
Chemistry: the central science (10th)

Organic Chemistry:

General Biology:

Microbiology:

Genetics:

General Physics:

Anatomy and Physiology:

Whatever text book your teacher tells you to get. Chances are they will be getting test questions directly out of the book and if you have a different version or different author you may find yourself at a disadvantage.