Books for a Beginner

Hey everyone. I've been playing chess for around 2 months now and I've seen great improvement in my chess skills. I can say I'm around the rank 1100-1200ish. I want to keep this pace of improvement and thought if I can get a good suggestion on books and practiced, I might stay the same pace of improvement for a little big longer. I've read Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, which I found to be a great book for beginners. I'm currently reading 303 More Tricky Puzzles. When I started reading that book, I couldn't do a single easy puzzle. When i finished the easy puzzles portion of the book (did each easy puzzle 3 times), the intermediate puzzles looked hell of a lot easy.

The problem I've noticed in my games is that in the mid-game, I dont know what to do. Like there are so many options and I cant find the best one out of those moves. I also drop peices way less frequently now.

What book should I get to help me find the best moves when there are tons of options? So basically a book on endgame and midgames for someone thats 1100-1200ish rating (chess live).

Thank You,

Lil_Aziz1

I would check out Ward Farnsworth's Predator at the Chessboard, which covers tactics.

The Farnsworth books (vol 1 and 2) are about $42 each on Amazon.

Or available here and here for $19.99 each.

I'm working through "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" which is highly rated on Amazon.com and has 58 enlightening reviews.