Don Juan, obviously.

You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the
passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find
marks against all those sentences which seem to express a
sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing
itself against hard glass. You thought, as you drew your pencil
there, “I too throw off my cloak like that. I too snap my
fingers in the face of destiny.” Yet Byron never made tea as
you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the
tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table – it is
running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up,
clumsily, with your pocket-handkerchief. You then stuff your
handkerchief back into your pocket – that is not Byron; that is
you; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty
years’ time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it
will be by that scene; and if you are dead, I shall weep. Once
you were Tolstoy’s young man; now you are Byron’s young
man; perhaps you will be Meredith’s young man; then you will
visit Paris in the Easter vacation and come back wearing a
black tie some detestable Frenchman whom nobody has ever
heard of. Then I shall drop you.

>>8028298
Before Juan you absolutely have to read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

>>8028325
ok

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Byron-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/019953733X/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463061488&sr=1-12&refinements=p_27%3ALord+Byron

If you're serious about it, it has most his major works including don juan and pilgrimage.

should i start with a book of his selected poems, then dive into don juan?

come on, i thought you guys knew your Byron

Manfred and Cain.

Also for before reading him he takes a lot of inspiration from Milton and Alexander Pope.

>>8028391
Yes.