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I really like Introduction to Modern Economic Growth by Acemoglu, which was the first year Macro textbook at my alma mater and where I currently teach. He does all his own proofs and includes more on institutions and directed technical change.
For Micro theory, I'd suggest Nicholson and Snyder's Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions, although the standard first year text for graduate school is probably Mas-Collel.
If you want a more heterodox book, check out [Microeconomics: Behavior, Instituions, and Evolution by Sam Bowles] (https://www.amazon.com/Microeconomics-Institutions-Evolution-Roundtable-Behavioral/dp/0691126380/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510358192&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=behavior+institutions+and+evolu)
The standard grad school text these days for dynamic macro is Ljungqvist & Sargent's Recursive Macroeconomic Theory. You won't need to go through the whole thing necessarily, but to be able to tackle the Woodford book, I would think chapters 1-4, 7-8, 12-13, 16-17 and 24-26 would be quite helpful.
There's also Simon & Blume's Mathematics for Economists, which is a good reference book should you need it. For example, the discussion and motivation of Lagrange multipliers and the Kuhn-Tucker optimization conditions is very good.
One noteable omission from both of those books which you will likely encounter at some point is continuous-time optimization/optimal control. This topic is often covered in the appendices of various grad-level macro textbooks, but perhaps the best I've come across is Chapter 7 of Daron Acemoglu's Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. The appendix to Barro & Sala-i-Martin's Economic Growth also has some pretty good coverage.
By the way, if you hunt around, all of these textbooks can be found online for "free".
Actually it is just as easy to write down a model where there is economic growth exactly equal to the rate of population growth. Acemoglu's Introduction to Modern Economic Growth has a pretty accessible discussion of the topic if you can do multivariable calculus.
You'd probably enjoy Acemoglu's Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Ok's Real Analysis With Economic Applications, and Corbae et al's An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics.