Reddit reviews Atlas of Human Anatomy: with Student Consult Access (Netter Basic Science)

Netter's will probably be used by most

Buy her her own personal Netters instead

The Netter Book is the authoritative anatomy book and is chock-full of information. However it's also chock-full of a high price (it's a serious academic book, used in a ton of medical/paramedical classes) so it may be a bit much. You'll use this as a reference book forever, though. Muscles, what they do, where they attach, what innervates them, and so on, it's all here in glorious detail.

A cheapo possibility which also covers all the bones and muscles is The Anatomy Coloring Book. This is used a lot in beginner's courses that require anatomy (the Kinesiology 101 type classes) and it's serious business, not juvenile like "Coloring Book" might suggest. And who cares if it's juvenile, because wheeeeee colouring! But you won't really learn a lot about the body, just where the bits are and what they are called.

I really do recommend the Netter book if you can swing it with the colouring book as a aid to memorization if that's important to you.

Buy this and this.

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Student-Consult/dp/1416059512/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

If you want more recommendations let me know. Look for my discount code tomorrow.

Don't bother, you'll get enough of it in med school haha.

As far as I know, one of the gold standards for anatomy is the Frank H Netter material. There's a nice Atlas of Human Anatomy (keep in mind an atlas usually doesn't have information about the functions of any anatomy, just the names), and study cards (even referenced here).

Gray's Anatomy is good (obviously), but really long. The student's version may be shorter/more manageable.

My undergrad class used Grant's Atlas of Anatomy/Grant's Dissector, and a Human Anatomy textbook. They were not bad as well. Anatomy material is always pretty dry.

If you can, maybe see what your school uses? That way you won't start reading and then have to switch to a different book (though I suppose extra reading is never a bad thing).

And congrats again on getting into med school!