For any particular subfield of CS (Machine learning, Computer Vision, HCI, etc.), find some top universities that offer graduate seminars, find the website which will usually list a reading list.

For example, from UW:

Machine Learning: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590m2/09au/ HCI: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590h/13au/

I've found graduate reading seminars usually try to present a mix of seminal, eclectic and recent that gives you a diverse overview of the field.