Ok, for my first year:
Public:
Barnett - a crock of crap in my opinion. Very good at giving the 'nuts and bolts' of the subject, but seemed to completely lack critical analysis. Made the mistake of choosing that over Bradley and Ewing in my first year.
Tompkins - Public Law - a short (300 page) book giving an excellent introductory, yet highly critical, analysis.
Contract:
Treitel - very detailed and perhaps the most articulate of all the texts I've come across. The strongest book in the field in my opinion.
Bishop, Beale, Furmston - Cases and Materials - very good, although lacking some of the more important cases. Notes are excellent.
Land Law:
Gray and Gray - Elements of Land Law - a lot of repetition, and too much jurisprudential analysis for a subject that's taught (at my uni, at least) as more of a 'black-letter' subject. However, once you've sieved out the useful material, it can readily be seen that what remains is the strongest account of the law compared with the other texts in the field.
Didn't use a casebook in this subject.
Second Year:
Criminal Law:
Smith and Hogan - generally an excellent black-letter account of the law. A little out of date in some areas (next edition is out later this year). One criticism is that it doesn't deal with one or two topics very well at all - particularly omissions, which comes across as being an amalgamated mess of rules, principles and cases. The other set text on my course is Clarkson and Keating, although as you say, the layout is just...odd.
Smith and Hogan - Cases and Materials - perhaps lacking in notes, but the questions posed are very good at inspiring a more critical view of the law.
Ashworth - Principles of Criminal Law - this is my theoretical text. Haven't really compared it against other similar texts, although my opinion of it is that of a superb critical analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of the criminal law.
Trusts and Equity:
Hanbury and Martin - succinct account of the law. Sometimes lacking sufficient explanation of principles. Reasonably critical. Structure of text could be improved in places. Generally better than the others in the field though.
Todd and Watt - Cases and Materials - Choice of extracts sometimes questionable. Notes are excellent. Structure of the book is a little unconvential, making it difiicult to cross-reference with my textbook.
EU:
Craig and De Burca - generally a very good text, although there's a fair amount of dead wood in each chapter that must be seperated from the useful stuff.
Jurisprudence:
Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence - very good selections of primary resources. I don't find the introductory passages to be of much use though.
Simmonds - A relatively short account of some of the central parts of the subject. Very good critical accounts given of the various jurisprudential theories, although the topics included are very selective, meaning the book omits many important areas of the subect - most notably, natural law.
Most of the other books used for this module are primary materials written by the jurists themselves.
Agency and Domestic Sale of Goods:
Markesinnis and Munday - An Outline of the Law of Agency - a fairly good text. Goes into a fair amount of detail. Structure could be improved to give a better account of how the various doctrines interrelate.
Atiyah - Sale of Goods - an articulate and detailed account of the law in this area. Superb explanation of cases and doctrines with just the 'right' amount of explanation and critical analysis. A little out of date (2001) so it becomes necessary to constantly cross-reference with other materials to ensure that what you're reading remains applicable law.