Hello

As the title suggests, I am interested in what books you would recommend to a 1400-ish player looking to improve.

Thanks

About what rating would Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals take me up to? Or is it all stuff I should already know by now?

@ wewsson

What books would you recommend for such study? Either for endgames or openings? 

Bang for the buck, I'd suggest getting a membership on chess.com and going through Chess mentor, it's essentially an interactive book..  The videos are an added bonus.

For books,  "Silman's complete endgame course", "The amateur's mind", "Logical Chess Move by Move", "The complete Chess workout", and "Fundamental Chess openings" are all good, and together give a rather balanced chess education.

Strange you mention "The complete book of chess strategy".. I am a huge Silman fan..  SQUEEEE...   But that's probably my least favorite of his works.  Which is doubly strange because it's essentially a reference book of chess principles and I just finished a post on how people should have a good grasp of chess principles before they embark on any particular area of study.

Don't get me wrong though, I still like it..  Just not as much as his other works.  If I might ask, what didn't you like about "Amateur's mind".  I felt it was the best introductory book on strategy and positional/structural concepts I've come across.

I like "my 60 memorable games" too, though I prefer chernev's "logical chess" and "most instructive games ever played more".  I'm not sure I consider them the same type of book as "amateur's mind".. While strategic understanding does come from good annotated game books, it's rather implicit.. In contrast to a more directly instructive book like "amateur's mind", or "Winning Chess Strategies".  I personally feel annotated games serve best to sort of cement all the different concepts together by seeing them as they play out.

Build Up Your Chess by Yusupov. It's a complete course (9 books in total).

Details here: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/14/artur_yusupovs_awardwinning_training_course/

Enid Blyton '' Five go on an Adventure ''.

Best Lessons of a Chess Coach.

grand masters secrets by igor sminrov 

I started my chess career with THE HANDBOOK FOR CHESS PLAYER'S by HOWARD STAUNTON. It's a pity that it is hard to find now!

Try and take a look at the chess books for beginning and intermediate players on this website, http://www.squidoo.com/chess-reference. They might offer you some valuable insight on to what you want to read.