X-Men comics: How to start reading (and get current)

I made this post originally as a comment on a post in r/xmen and my friend pointed out to me this might me useful to more people.

I work in a comic book store so this is a question I get a lot and recently with all the movie stuff and AvX I've had to assemble a list of X-Men comics for catch up/jumping in. My personal suggestion (to cut down on a lot of reading since the original run of Uncanny itself was 544 issues and then plus all the events is a LOT to read) is to follow this order:

1 Astonishing X-Men #1-24 (Plus the Giant-Size issue which goes last) this is Joss Whedon's run, it's a good launching point I've found to get people used to X-Men comics more since it's a small team but with a lot of well known characters and an interesting storyline

2 House Of M (this can get kind of confusing but is super important and very good. Most people do find just googling things they don't understand.)

3 Second Coming (This is a less complicated than House Of M but you might still need to google a few things.

This is where you can start reading Uncanny X-Force but as it RARELY interacts with the rest of the comics you can kind of read it whenever you want. I'm including it because I think it's one of the best x-titles right now and it's darker.

4 Uncanny X-Men #521-544 (this has I think 3 overlapping issues with Second Coming)

5 Astonishing X-Men #25-43

6 Schism (mini series only 5 issues long) (ALSO there are two tie-ins: Generation Hope #10 and #11)

7 Regenesis (one shot)

From here on you're in current X-Men time and can read these until AvX in any order

8 Uncanny X-Men (new run) STOP AFTER #10

9 Wolverine And The X-Men STOP AFTER #8

10 X-Men Legacy #259 -265

11 AvX #0 and #1

from here on out read the rest of AvX, Legacy, Uncanny, and WATXM in whatever order you choose, they're all AvX and AvX tie ins. Also the AvX: VS series tells you what regualr AvX issue it is a companion to.

Astonishing X-Men #44-to current

Sorry this was so long, hope it was helpful! This catches you up to everything in current X-Men.