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If you want to do some reading on the cardiovascular system, I'd recommend Berne and Levy's (or Levy and Pappano for the latest edition) Cardiovascular Physiology which is a nice small book based on a chapter from their physiology textbook. I would strongly advise you against mentioning it in your personal statement or interview though! Your interviewers are going to be more interested in what you think than what you know but if they aren't feeling charitable, you could be leaving yourself wide open for a grilling on the finer points of the interviewer's medical speciality, and that won't necessarily be pleasant!
If you want books to talk about in interview, I'd recommend autobiographical books by doctors, or blogs that have been published like In Stitches (A&E Dr.) or Blood, Sweat and Tea (paramedic). You could also branch out into a bit of Monica Dickens (but I don't remember the name of the nursing one - One Pair of Feet?) or try Stiff by Mary Roach (about the many uses of cadavers).
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About to be second year medical student - University of Sheffield.
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