What are your favorite chess books?

Right now, I'm really enjoying "Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953" and some of the Starting Out books, "1d4 : A Reliable Repertoire for the Improving Player", "King's Indian", and "Accelerated Dragon". 

Also waiting on "Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals" to show up to begin organized training and identification of my weak areas. I want to also focus on end games but trying to not drink from the firehose too much and get burnt out.

What are some of your favorites or ones you're going through right now? 

Chernev - Logical Chess Move by Move

del Rosario - A First Book of Morphy

Play Winning Chess By Seirawan. This book open my eyes to a fantastic world called chess.

My Favorite is this The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal ... 

Dynamic Chess by Coles.

john watson's secrets of modern chess strategy

500 Master Games of Chess - Tartakower/Du Mont (an old book)

My favorite is the present my brother gave to me back in 1960  Bobby Fischer's  Games of Chess.  I hope to pass this down to one of my grandchildren but none of them play as of now.  It was the only book I owned for years as a youngster and I use to play the games cover to cover more than a couple times.  

Boris Avrukh: 1.d4 series

Gelfand: "decision making" series

Kasparov's My Great Predecessors

Zurich 1953 (although stopped like halfway through because descriptive notation (i.e QN-KB6) is too hard to read

Yasser seirawans's books are relatively simple, but fun to read

Dvoretsky's books are supposedly very good but I find them too dry, too much anaylsis,, too little words!

My favorite is Chernev’s Logical Chess Move by Move, but a very close second is Understanding Pawn Play in Chess by Dražen Marović.  

If I remember correctly, the Dover version has notation like this: b8-c6

"Move First, Think Later"

"The Seven Deadly Chess Sins"

"Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"

"Pawn Power In Chess" by Hans Kmoch (Dover Publications ed.)

"The Art of Planning In Chess - Move By Move" by Neil McDonald

"Chess Training Pocket Book - 300 Most Important Positions & Ideas" by Lev Alburt

Here are a few:

Simple Chess, by GM Michael Stean. Great explanations of middlegame principles.

Easy Guide to the Ruy Lopez. Dated variations, but still excellent discussion of typical Ruy themes.

Anything by Savielly Tartakower. The man was a sparkling wit.

Karl Marx Plays Chess. A collection of Andy Soltis's columns.

I agree.  "Simple Chess" by Michael Stean is an outstanding chess book for the improving amateur chess player to learn the application of positional chess concepts....

Written by female chess players with an IM or above.

Till Tomorrow 

Chess fundamentals is very good book. 

Nimzowitsch's My system and Kotov's duo Think and Play like a Grandmaster are my all time favourites and were fundamental in having me hooked to the game many years ago.

Nowadays I am truly enjoying Silman's How to reassess your chess and anything by Simon Williams!   

A wonderful book. Bronstein was a brilliant writer and player.

Also very good are Fischer's "My 60 Memorable Games", Tal's book on his first World Championship match against Botvinnik, "Pawn Power in Chess" by Kmoch, and "My System" by Nimzovich.