1) FIRST YEAR MBBS
A) Anatomy
- BD Chaurasia (handbook and textbook, must)
- Student's edition of gray's anatomy
- Vishram Singh (Neuroanatomy)
- Richard snell (standard book for Neuroanatomy)
- Inderbir Singh (it makes embryology & histology quite easy to understand)
- Kazi ( Q & A book, helpful for exams)
- Langman (standard book/reference for embryology, diagrams are good, but its language is quite complicated )
- Di Fiore (standard book/reference book for histology )
- Netter's atlas
- Grant's atlas (this atlas is quite better as few extra points are given below the diagrams)
B) Physiology
- Guyton (must,prefers Guyton over Ganong)
- A K Jain
C) Biochemistry
- Vasudevan (quite complicated with so many interlinks, but its good to learn from it )
- Chatterjee
-Harper (standard book, must try)
2) SECOND YEAR MBBS
A) Pathology
- Robins (standard book, must have)
- Harsh Mohan ( easy to read & understand)
- Geetika Khana ( Q & A book , helpful during exams)
B) Microbiology
- Ananthnarayan (textbook)
- Jawetz ( standard book for better guidance and concepts )
- Baveja (simple and easy to understand the basics)
- Apurba Shastri (precise and to the point )
- Parija ( practical manual book and Parasitology book, quite lengthy)
- Nagoba and Asha pichare ( Q & A book , helpful during exams)
C) Pharmacology
- KD Tripati (must have )
- Katzung (standard book )
- Shanbaug (helpful to prepare answers and understand)
- Goodman Gilman (PG level book)
D) Forensic medicine
- Reddy (quite boring as it is black & white BUT standard book)
- Pillay (precise and have lots of pictures)
-T Rama Rao (Q & A book, helpful during exams)
3) THIRD YEAR MBBS
A) PSM
- Park (standard book, must)
- vivek jain ( Q & A book )
- Sreejith, Paras publication ( highly updated, to the point, must try)
B) Opthalmology
- Khurana (precise and pointwise , must )
- Parson (standard book, must have, best book to develop concepts and basics )
- Tulli (clinical book for opthal, optional)
-Kanski (PG level)
C) ENT
- Dhingra (must have)
- Balkrishna ( clinical book for ENT)
- Logan (PG level)
4) FOURTH YEAR MBBS
A) Medicine
- Hutchison or Macleod clinical book ( must read at least once )
- Davidson (must have)
- Kundu (for bedside clinical case, Must have for clinics)
- Alagappan (practical manual for Practical basics )
- G. Matthew (Q & A book, helpful during exams)
- Harrison (can use for reference or try to read, must have it's soft copy atleast )
B) Surgery
- Bailey and Love (standard book, optional, can have its ebook)
- Manipal ( Textbook, easy, simple to read & Understand, adequate )
- Rajmahendran's book of Short cases and Long cases (must have for surgery practicals )
or
- S.Das ( standard practical book)
- Sabiston or Schwartz ( PG level books)
C) Paediatrics
- OP Ghai (text book, must have)
- Scott ( Paeds Clinical book, important for UG & PGs )
- IAP ( lengthy & costly, Must have it's soft copy in your laptop/tablet )
- Nelson ( PG level book)
D) Obstetrics and gynecology
- Dutta's Textbook of Obstetrics (standard )
- Sheila balakrishnan - Obstetrics ( easy to understand and read , updated , must have )
- lakshmi seshadri essentials of Gynecology (easy , updated , must have )
- Shaw's Textbook of Gynecology (optional)
Orthopaedics - Maheshwari (textbook, easy to understand, basics)
- Apley (standard textbook, must have its ebook)
- kaushik banerjee / S.das of surgery ( for clinical)
For side subjects/Topics-
Psychiatry- Neeraj Ahuja
Dermat - Neena khanna or
- Dr. Thappa
Neurology examination - Fuller (standard)
exam, optional )
ECG made easy - John R Hampton (optional)