Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.
This is almost always listed at the top of Batman stories, and for good reason. For me, it was enjoyable, but we've kind of seen this regurgitated in the movies and animated series quite a few times at this point. That really shows how seminal this story is. It's always good to know that Batman once seemed vulnerable.
Batman: The Black Glove Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison, Andy Kuber, JH Williams III and Tony Daniel
Grant Morrison's Batman is the one I was most excited to get into, as I've read some of the later chapters in his extended run, and going back and reading the entire thing is a lot of fun. This is the kind of Batman story I can really dig into. It's complex, layered, and just kind of crazy. Grant Morrison goes back into Batman's history and begins weaving this tapestry that's super compelling. There are annotations online for his run, because it's so in-depth. This is just the beginning of his Batman epic, and it's a great start.
Batman R.I.P. by Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel
This goes with the Black Glove stuff, it's part of Grant Morrison's Bat-Epic. It just gets better honestly. Batman is broken mentally by the entity known as The Black Glove, who appears as his dead father, Thomas Wayne. Fortunately, Batman has devised a backup personality, "The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh" to fight back. It's crazy stuff. Just read it. I can't do it justice here.
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