1. Chess Openings for Hustlers by Claude Bloodgood
including NIMZOVICH ATTACK: The Norfolk Gambits
Blackburne-Hartlaub gambit: 1 d4 e5 2 dxe5 d6!?  etc.
2. Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King  by Hans Bohm and Kees Jongkind.
3. Psychology of the Chess Player by Reuben Fine. 
4. King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman.   
5. Life & Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal.
6. Test Your Chess IQ: First Challenge by August Livshitz.
7. Test Your Chess IQ: Master Challenge by August Livshitz.
8. Test Your Chess IQ: Grandmaster Challenge by August Livshitz.
9. My System by Aron Nimzovich. 
10. More Complete Chess Addict by Michael Fox and Richard James.
11. The Even More Complete Chess Addict by Michael Fox and Richard James. 
12. A Chess Omnibus by Edward Winter and Jan Timman. 
13. Chess Facts And Fables by Edward Winter. 
14. Karpov on Karpov: A Memoirs of a Chess World Champion.
15. Child of Change: The Autobiography of the World Chess Champion by Garry Kasparov.
16. Chess is My Life by Victor Korchnoi. 
17. Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson.
18. End Game: Kasparov vs. Short by Dominic Lawson.
19. The Human Comedy of Chess A Grandmaster's Chronicles by Hans Ree. 
20. Think Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov.
21. Soft Pawn: The Uncensored Sequel to How to Cheat at Chess by William Hartston.
22. Grandmasters of Chess by Harold C. Schonberg. 
23. Chess Bitch: Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport by Jennifer Shahade.
24. Catalog of Chess Mistakes by Andy Soltis.
25. Chess to Enjoy by Andy Soltis.
26. Tal The Magnificent by Andy Soltis.
27. Chess Lists (2nd Edition) by Andy Soltis.
28. The Reliable Past by Genna Sosonko. 
29. Total Chess by David Spanier.

30. The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov.
Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life.  His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost:  in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality.   His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers  under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.

31. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.
The story takes place on a cruise ship en route from New York to Buenos Aires in 1941. The world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board. Czentovic is a chess prodigy who is singularly ungifted in other areas of the intellect and social graces. Also on board is Dr. B, a former solictor for the Austrian imperial family who is traveling to South America as a refugee from the Nazi regime.

Yeah, I liked the Zweig story alright (despite the usual mumblypeg whenever fiction writers try to fake knowing about chess).  The Nabokov however was...Nabokov.  250 pages of impenetrable turbidity.

Reuben Fine's book was filled with all the morbid concerns of a Freudian.  (Okay, tonydal, why don't you say what you DO like for a change?...)  Loved the Tal--and Chess Addict was great (hadn't realized there were more than just the first one!--are these just revisions/updates or are they completely new books?--if they're new I'll have to snag me a copy or two).  Think Like a Grandmaster was fun/instructive--and the Schonberg was entertaining if a bit superficial (admittedly he had a lot to cram into those pages, so he could only spend a bit of time on each genius).  And Soltis is always good (except that his first book, on Spassky's games, was quite disappointing--tremendous games though, which made up for that).  My System I've never gotten a lot out of--too jargony and conceited (somehow or other Aron always reminds me of Nixon; I can see both of them huddled and bent over their manuscripts, yelling at anyone who makes the slightest bit of noise while they're working).

Is this your library?  Or a list of your favorite books over the years?