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What is your opinion of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, if you are aware of him?

Also, not a question but thank you very much for your lectures on YouTube - they made me a Socialist in the real sense of the word. Especially this one.

I'm not Richard Wolff, but let me give my two cents:

• Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
  

An excellent book by the Anarchist Prince which proposes an alternative to the statist transition to Communism and what the society, after the revolution, would/should be like.

• Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution?
  

A timeless critique of social-democracy, as well as the social-democracy of its day that was proposed by Eduard Bernstein to the social-democratic party of Germany.

• Vladimir Lenin - The State and Revolution
  

I'm not a Leninist, but Lenin's The State and Revolution is an excellent text for understanding not only Lenin's motive for using the state in the Russian Revolution, but also for understanding how Marxists view the state as a tool of class domination.

• Vladimir Lenin - Karl Marx
  

Again, Lenin, an often controversial figure between Anarchists and Marxists but a great theoretician nonetheless. "Karl Marx" provides a summary of many of Marx's ideas in an easy-to-read format, such as his theory of surplus value and his labour theory of value. Along with The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism Lenin can provide a good education on Marxism, assuming the fundamentals laid out in Engels' and Marx's works are understood fully.

• Peter Gelderloos - Anarchy Works
  

A very recent book about how Anarchism could be applied in the 21st century by a man who also wrote the book How Non-Violence Protects The State. Anarchy Works works as a superb introduction to Anarchism, not only as a historical movement but as a current trend of Socialist thought and movement in the 21st century. The books starts of by defining what Anarchists mean when they say or use certain things and words in their dialogues, and explains why Anarchists are against things such as the state and capitalism.

• Friedrich Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
  

Engels lays out Marxist ideas in this rather short booklet. Coupled with the Principles of Communism and The Communist Manifesto, they provide an introduction to Marxism in its context - where it came from, where it's going, and what it wants.

This is by no means everything, and I also strongly recommend using websites such a marxists.org and especially their beginner's guide to Marxism. The Anarchist Library is also good for finding Anarchist books, as well as LibCom.org.

EDIT: For Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism I also recommend Engels' work on the matter as well as Marx's German Ideology and Marx's 18th Brumaire. Also useful are Bukharin's and Stalin's works