I'm mainly interested (graduate student) in surgery theory and geometric topology.

If I have a chance to suggest "must read" papers in geometric topology for beginner, I'm very glad to suggest "Topological Library" books volume 1,2,3 (including monumental papers of Smale,Milnor,Kervaire-Milnor,Thom,Serre,Novikov...) available in the following cite.(volume 3 is not available in English edition up to now)

http://www.amazon.com/Topological-Library-Characteristic-Structures-Everything/dp/9812836861/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296894607&sr=1-1

Question: What are "must read" papers in algebraic K-theory? (I hope that most of them can be readable with basic understanding about classical K-theory such as Rothenberg's text or Milnor's ann. math. studies book)

I'm mainly interested (graduate student) in surgery theory and geometric topology.

If I have a chance to suggest "must read" papers in geometric topology for beginner, I'm very glad to suggest "Topological Library" books volume 1,2,3 (including monumental papers of Smale,Milnor,Kervaire-Milnor,Thom,Serre,Novikov...) available in the following cite.(volume 3 is not available in English edition up to now)

http://www.amazon.com/Topological-Library-Characteristic-Structures-Everything/dp/9812836861/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296894607&sr=1-1

Question: What are "must read" papers in algebraic K-theory? (I hope that most of them can be readable with basic understanding about classical K-theory such as Rosenberg's text or Milnor's ann. math. studies book)