What chess books are you reading right now?

I am reading/drilling Bain's Chess Tactics for Students. Repeating over and over to burn the patterns into my brain (at least that's the plan). Almost halfway through. It seems to be working so far as I have nearly reached 1800 in puzzles here when I was previously plateaued around 1550 to 1600. Still losing games to tactical oversights, so I won't be stopping this book anytime soon.

I just finished Play Winning Chess (rereading to help remember the basics).

I am reading Winning Chess Tactics for the descriptions and annotated games. Not drilling the exercises since they are very similar to the Bain book. In fact, I found at least one identical position.

Also reading A First Book of Morphy for study purposes.

Finally, reading Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess because I like chess history and biographies. Goes nicely with the annotated games.

Just starting The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonathan Rowson, hopefully it can help me with my blunderitis

At any instant I am likely to be reading selections from one of these (or of the many others in my collection)...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

^^ The Seven Deadly Sins is discussed on the Perpetual Chess podcast. I'm reading The Right Way To Teach Children Chess and Master v. Amateur by Euwe.

The Seven Deadly Sins does look good. It's on my list to read eventually, after I progress through some more foundational stuff. Starting Winning Chess Strategies (I really like Seirawan's approach) once I consolidate a bit more tactics.

You may be interested to know that the Chessable version of The Seven Deadly Chess Sins is in beta testing.

Just got Chess, Words of Wisdom  by Mike Henebry. on the recommendation of a friend and its actually a pretty good read, It's basically a compilation of words of wisdom from many different sources so there are no positions or diagrams but lots of wisdom from hundreds of different individuals. What I love about the book is that you can open it to any page and read without having to worry about whether you read the page or section before it. So the first section I selected was pawn structure and I gotta admit, it's really outstanding.

Weapons of chess. Is a good beginners book on strategy.

I have that, but I can't get into it. It's a good encyclopaedia (but not as good as Silman's Chess Strategy A to Z), but I was looking for something with more continuity.

Recently finished My 60 Memorable Games (Fischer) and now currently reading Pawn Power in Chess (Kmoch). I'm about halfway through that book now. 

I've heard many good things about these two books (in great part why I decided to read those), but they are a bit more advanced compared to some other chess books out there. Personally, I typically like reading books just slightly above my level (in chess or even other things) because I want to challenge myself. 

Fischer's book I began reading when I was about 1600 chess.com, but I fully knew then that perhaps I'd have to revisit the book in the future or spend longer on it. I've done a bit of both, but I'm glad I decided to read it nevertheless. Perhaps 1800+ or even 2000+ would better grasp Fischer's concepts, but I got them by simply taking longer on the positions and utilizing my thoughts, Fischer's annotations and Stockfish's recommendations. I was still able to benefit from the book, but one must have the patience to work things out if your rating/chess understanding isn't too high (like how mine wasn't).

at what rating did u start reading

Me or the thread op?  

If me, then I'm not sure. Probably around 1500 chess.com rating or so. I've always worked on my chess, but lots of it was figuring it out on my own or through YouTube videos or analysis of my own games. 

Chess reading isn't the only way to learn, nor is it necessarily the best way to learn. It is simply one way to learn. I suspect a strong chess player has not limited themselves and has tried all sorts of learning methods already. Sometimes people forget that some have different learning styles than themselves and that different things resonate differently with different people. 

Some might learn best with chess books (which certainly have their virtues as well), some might learn best with videos and some might learn best by playing and analyzing their games (especially losses).

Before I ever read any chess books, I did read a lot of chess.com articles and other chess articles though. Chess articles are similar to chess books but are much shorter and sometimes have the added benefit of annotated pgn diagrams.  

My 60 Memorable Games is on my annotated games book list, but it's somewhat down on the list. On top are A First Book of Morphy (Del Rosario), the classic Logical Chess: Move by Move (Chernev), and then Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking (McDonald). Just starting on the Morphy book.

I just finished reading Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson. It's a biography rather than a chess study, but I found it very interesting (apart from the long pages of testimonial speeches, which I skimmed past). Two things struck me. First, despite his immense talent, Morphy didn't seem to enjoy chess that much, and wasn't passionate about the game. He was mostly interested in seeing how he compared to the best in the world. Once he realised he could beat them, his interest in chess seemed to evaporate. Second, the world probably never saw the full measure of his ability. There just wasn't the opposition to make him fully exercise or develop his prodigious ability.

I've heard good things about Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by Move by several people as well. 

As for the Morphy biography, that is awesome.  The favorite chess player for one of my chess friends is Paul Morphy and they read this biography years ago. Naturally, I've heard what you've mentioned, but it is interesting for sure. 

Also, My 60 Memorable Games probably took me longer to read than it would otherwise also because I had to learn English Standard Notation to read it. I wanted to get a 1st edition copy of the book (even if it cost slightly more and meant I'd have to learn another notation) because Fischer infamously denounced other versions and "translations" of his text. Even though Fischer is no longer with us, I honored his memory by getting the original text and never regretted it

Power Chess- Paul Keres, originally written for Chess Life and Review these 22 articles are a joy to play through, a must have book, I found my copy at one of the last book sales I went to, it has been a year since I been to a used book store, god I miss that, the serendipity of discovery.

The Soviet Championships Volume 1...

I'm currently reading Ludek Pachman;'s autobiographical Checkmate in Prague, which focuses upon the Czech uprising of 1968 and his attendant change in political views. When I need a game to play through its Paul Keres' Quest for Perfection.