Apart from other excellent suggestions, I like the following books a lot: - *3264 and all that*, David Eisenbud and Joe Harris. Contains a wealth of useful information, such as a glimpse of intersection theory, geometry of Grassmanians, Chern classes, Hilbert schemes and a toolbox for Riemann-Roch. - *Lectures on Vector Bundles*, J.Le Potier. Concise introduction into Quot-schemes, moduli spaces of sheaves and stability conditions. - *The Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves*, D. Huybrechts and M. Lehn Another (more systematic and with slightly different results) treatment of semistable coherent sheaves. - *Fundamental Algebraic Geometry. Grothendieck's FGA explained*, B. Fantechi et al. An introduction into some more advanced fundamental techniques: descent theory, Hilbert and Quot schemes, elementary deformation theory and Picard scheme. - *SGA 4 1/2, P. Deligne* One of the best places to learn about Étale cohomology written by a master.