Nunn's chess openings is a good book.
warning: That book has no explanation why the position is equal or slightly better 2 white or any annotation at all for example
1. 2.
1.e4 e5 =
2.d4 d5 =
Thats the way in the book so you better step up in position play if you're gonna buy it to figure out what's going on. But it's a good book.
Alexander Khalifman's Opening for White according to Anand 1.e4 Vol. 2 covers a repertoire against the Ruy Lopez Morphy defence 3...a6, and volume 1 covers the Berlin, Petroff, etc. Arizmendi and Moreno's Mastering the Najdorf offers a repertoire for black. Both are reasonably up-to-date and quite thorough.
Can anyone offer me advice on finding a few good opening books?
I'm looking for something on the Ruy Lopez for white and the Sicilian Najdorf for black.
I've already got a fairly big collection of strategy and middlegame/endgame books, so now I figure it's time to step in and try and learn a few openings so I don't have to rely on game explorer so much.