Reddit reviews Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1

You can also go back to the semi-recent past, when the X-Men more-or-less entered the contemporary era, at the beginning of what's essentially been one big story.

• Grant Morrison's NEW X-MEN One of the best X-runs of all time: the team takes on threat after threat, mostly new villains. Some of the most imaginative yet faithful X-Men comics you'll ever read. I really can't praise it highly enough. (Available as an omnibus, or in 3 big paperbacks: 1, 2, 3.)[Cast: Xavier, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Wolverine, Emma Frost]
  
  
• Joss Whedon's ASTONISHING X-MEN Following up Morrison's run, Whedon does a great run that's less ambitious than Morrison's run, but just as classic. Available in two big paperbacks: 1, 2.
  
  
• Brian Bendis' Avengers Disassembled / House of M In his very first story on Avengers, Brian Bendis changes everything for the mutants of the Marvel Universe. I don't want to give much away, but this seriously affected every X-story that followed. That was and still is a HUGE deal. Part One: Avengers Disassembled , Part Two: House of M.
  
  
• Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction's UNCANNY X-MEN The story moves into the main X-titles at this point, led by Brubaker and Fraction's UNCANNY. In a series of crossovers, the mutants deal with the fallout from the end of HOUSE OF M.
  
  
• Messiah Complex
  
• Fraction, V1. (Manifest Destiny)
  
• Fraction, V2. (Utopia / Nation X)
  
• Fraction, V3. (The Five Lights)
  
• Second Coming
  
  
• Jason Aaron & Kieron Gillen's REGENESIS Following the Second Coming crossover, Fraction steps down and Kieron Gillen takes over the monthly book, leading up to another big event for the X-Men.
  
  
• Breaking Point
  
• Fear Itself
  
• Schism
  
  From here on out, for the first time in a while, we have two main X-Books: Gillen's UNCANNY X-MEN and Aaron's WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN.
  
  
• Gillen's Uncanny, Vol. 1 Sinister
  
• Gillen's Uncanny, Vol. 2 Tabula Rasa
  
• Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 1 Welcome to the X-Men
  
• Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2 Mutatis Mutandis
  
  And now, all the plotlines that have been bubbling up for almost a decade come together in the big finale...
  
  
• Avengers vs. X-Men
  
• Gillen's Uncanny, Vol. 3 AvX, Book One
  
• Gillen's Uncanny, Vol. 4 AvX, Book Two
  
• Aaron's WatXM, Vol. 3 AvX Book One
  
• Aaron's WatXM, Vol. 4 AvX Book Two
  
• AvX: Consequences
  
  With another new beginning, the X-Books enter the newest status quo: Marvel Now! Almost everything gets a new #1 and a new creative team. (These are the books I outlined in the previous reply.)
  

New X-men, Astonishing X-men, Matt Fraction's Uncanny X-men, Kieron Gillen's Uncanny X-men in that order and you should be good.

For the Uncanny X-Men, you want Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen. There's four volumes of that, including the Avengers vs. X-Men tie-in story.

Continuing from my last post ...

Whereas the Marvel Universe annual storylines were often separate concepts / events that ultimately set the stage, led into each other, much of the X-Men stories from 2005 onward revolved around one big concept: the "Decimation" of the Mutant species as a result of Marvel's "House of M" crossover, and how the X-Men worked to save those that remained. This was a plotline that took many twists and turns until 2012 Avengers vs. X-Men, which ultimately resolved it.

X-MEN STORYLINES & CROSSOVERS (IN ORDER)

• DeciMation (2005) - A theme across the X-Titles, this dealt with the immediate aftermath of "House of M". Trades that could be considered key to this plot are DeciMation: The Day After, X-Men: The 198, X-Men: Deadly Genesis, and Generation M
  
• Endangered Species (2007) - Not a crossover, but a series of vignettes that add up to a full story that serve as a lead-in to Messiah Complex
  
• Messiah Complex (2007)
  
• Divided We Stand (2008) - Another theme across the X-Titles, dealing with the aftermath of Messiah Complex. Trades that are considered important include Uncanny X-Men: Divided We Stand, Cable: Messiah War, X-Men: Legacy - Divided He Stands, X-Force
  
• Manifest Destiny (2008) - The line wide theme following "Divided We Stand"
  
• Messiah War (2009)
  
• Dark Avengers / X-Men: Utopia (2009) - Tied into the Marvel Universe's ongoing Dark Reign storyline
  
• X-Necrosha (2010)
  
• Second Coming (2010)
  
• X-Men: The Birth of Generation Hope / Generation Hope (2011) - Not actually crossovers or line-wide events, but merely trades that deal with the aftermath of Second Coming and seed the path to AvX
  
• Schism (2011)
  
• Regenesis (2011) - A line-wide theme in the aftermath of Schism, focusing on the split of the X-Men in both a new volume of Uncanny X-Men and a new series Wolverine & the X-Men. All of which will lead to AvX
  
  And that's pretty much it. Hope it helps!