Textbooks for 1st year medical students?

Starting Medicine this September and was wondering if any current students could tell me what books/study materials they're using for each subject just so that I can familiarise myself with the course etc.

For eager, unbled incoming medical students like us the whole "don't waste your money" "wait til you get here" thing is quite depressing to read. We want to buy textbooks and look at our vast piles of them and feel like we've qualified already. That's the underlying feeling behind this very common question.

hahaha guilty as charged!!! im not claiming these will be essential but these are pretty decent prices and if you are a bit anxious like me and want to buy the stuff on the reading list then what a great opportunity

For eager, unbled incoming medical students like us the whole "don't waste your money" "wait til you get here" thing is quite depressing to read. We want to buy textbooks and look at our vast piles of them and feel like we've qualified already. That's the underlying feeling behind this very common question.

Well get over it. You've got a hell of a long way to go before coming close to qualifying, and a little bit of humility does us all good. You're going into a profession wherein how accomplished you wish to feel is the single lowest priority; to be complaining that those who came before you aren't giving you sufficient help with massaging your ego isn't a good way to start. Rid yourself of that underlying feeling as quickly and comprehensively as you can.

TSR has (or had, a few years ago when I was writing it) an entire wiki page dedicated to reviews of medical textbooks, and your medical school will have a library full of them to sample before you buy, or to absolve you of the need to buy some of them at all. Your lecturers will recommend some, you and your colleagues will find and share a few good ones. It's a very common question and the very common answer is the only correct one: don't buy a load of textbooks before going to medical school, it's an unproductive waste of money and serves little purpose other than to make you feel special. That was the advice I was given, that was the advice my teachers were given, that's the advice I give today because, as it turns out, it's entirely correct.

Blimey, I hope I never meet you on the wards.

Either you misunderstood my sentiment or you're looking for an argument.

Well, it is kind of frustrating when someone asks for help, they get (honest, practical) answers from people who've been there, and then someone complains about the advice that's given. Oh, and decides to explain the reasoning behind the question as though we've not all been there ourselves. We're not trying to be mean!

However, I think what might've particularly irked Chris was the bit about "We want to buy textbooks and look at our vast piles of them and feel like we've qualified already"; it may (accurately or otherwise) have put him in mind of a particular breed of medical student who we've all met, and who basically lacks the self-awareness to realise how little they actually know (hence the humility comment). Not saying this is you, but your post did come across a tad like that.

tl;dr - people were only trying to be helpful, and humility is a likeable characteristic.

Fair enough, I'm sorry for any offence caused. The line you quoted was meant to come across as tongue in cheek, reinforced by the use of "unbled" in the first line.
What I should have posted is that many incoming medical students (like me hopefully) are so excited that we just want to go out and buy every textbook we can find, which makes it hard to take the sensible advice of those who've already been through it. That, however, did not sound very cool