I looked at the booklists that are up on the titles bookstore website, and wrote down all the books i would need for my specific courses. Is it safe to buy them now? What do you guys recommend?

everyone will suggest that you wait till you have class first. alot of books might be listed as required, but sometimes the prof will tell you later not to buy it.or might just say that you only need to learn from a few chapters from it.
definately wait till you have the first day of class! but its good to have your list handy and ready to go buy.

you can spend sometime and try to see if you can buy them used at a cheaper price too!

... I suggest you buy them now! I'm just kidding, don't buy them now I just wanted to say that because Eva said that "everyone will suggest that you wait until you have class first" XD But maybe if you can get them used, I know they sell pretty fast on the titles website. You could always ask an upper year too and if class hasn't started ask if you can "reserve" Lol, who knows, maybe they will let you "reserve"