I have read some elementary number theory from David Burton's text and I know groups and rings from Herstein's book Topics in Algebra and some field theory from different sources online. I am currently learning commutative algebra from Atiyah and Macdonald's engaging book on commutative algebra.


I would really like to learn some algebraic number theory and I was wondering if someone could provide me a sequence of books/ steps so that I can understand enough number theory to be a strong graduate student about to begin research. I apologize sincerely if my question is off-topic here or partly vague.



Learning roadmap for algebraic number theory
Two good books for an introduction to global algebraic number theory (i.e., number fields) are:


Algebraic Theory of Numbers: Translated from the French by Allan J. Silberger (Dover Books on Mathematics) May 19, 2008 by Pierre Samuel (less than $8 in paperback)


A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 84) by Kenneth Ireland & Michael Rosen, Springer


