Got me a list for next years University books as well. I'm smart enough not to buy everything right away. I'll have a look in it the library by the time those classes start. Then, if I think it's worth the money, I buy it. One thing you have to be carefull about are readers. In my first year I bought this huge pile of readers. Some were actually about how to use windows or word. Never should've bought those. If you need to buy a reader always check if you really need it. Don't care about what the book list says. Readers are just cheap excuses for books (mostly, they just contain copied pages of certain pages of those books). In other words, they're often just total crap.