A Calculus textbook as thick as an L.A. phone book should be included here!

I also had an electronics for physicists that was so boring I don't care to recall the text!

Can't recall the Astrophysics text we used. It was an outdated piece of junk!

Advanced E&M was the most work of any course!

 When you finish the geometry of physics in 2 or more courses and, know Lie groups and Differential Topology you are ready to be a real theoretical physicist.

  This is the textbook I had for my for my modern physics class. The whole course was an expansion of what we learned in the third volume of our basic text. It should be noted that this book contains material that was well beyond the scope of the course! I also took thermodynamics that was fairly easy!

  In the same year 2 courses of electrodynamics is also required, you get to learn how to use Maxwell's equation in differential and integral form. Also 2 courses in classical mechanics is also offered where you get to learn about Lagrangian mechanics, the calculus of variations and, Hamiltonian dynamics.

  This was one hell of a serious course that covered many areas of mathematics that apply to physics, it would take me a page to do this course justice in describing what I did in 2 courses! Anyone who can do well in this class has my respect!

  The computers in physics used a book used by the same author but, it was not as bad as the Mathematical Methods class, then again nothing really is!

  2 courses of this required a few other quantum text books. This book was written by the same guy who wrote the Electrodynamics book. I think he did a better job with the Electrodynamics book or maybe because it was a harder course I needed more help.

  I learned a-lot about lattice structure of solids, amorphous solids, semi-conductors, atomic clusters, band theory of solids and, super conductors. Sometimes it's great not to get lost in too much mathematics and learn some very important physics concepts. Ok the instructor was a little easy but, the course was fascinating and I liked it. 

Now this is where we are getting serious about thermodynamics and starting to learn statistical mechanics. You know it may of been a good idea to take this before quantum mechanics.

In my last astrophysics class the instructor had a talent for making the most interesting aspects of the universe so dam boring.

Apart from this I also had 3 Advanced Physics labs and, a research project.

Graduate work!

 NOW WE HAVE COME TO SOME REAL PHYSICS! 

  In 2 courses we covered tensor calculus that I had in mathematical methods, special and general relativity and, an introduction to cosmology. Of course there were numerous handouts in the class.

What you see now are the books for my elective courses, after years of work I have learned some interesting things but, my one time goal of a fully renormalizable theory of quantum gravity may very likely be one that escapes me.

At the same time I had to take a bunch of Chemistry classes that were a hell of a-lot of work.

Not mentioned here were all of the bull shit core requirement courses that just add at least a years time to your degree!

Before I tried mathematical methods for theoretical physics I also completed separate math courses in Linear Algebra, Differential equations, Complex Analysis and, Partial Differential equations.

Apart from being an interesting course, knowing nuclear physics helps settle many arguments over nuclear power and weapons! Note that many of our policy makers in this area have barely had an introductory science course in college, much less then nuclear physics. A notable exception being former President Jimmy Carter who was a nuclear engineer.

 2 more courses of classical mechanics is required.