What tactics rating before I begin to read?

Hello, this christmas I was fortunate to get How to reassess your chess 4th edition, silman's complete endgame course, the amatures mind, and logical chess move by move. I also got a chess.com platinum membership for the tactics trainer. I have been doing tactics nonstop(I think I'm around 700 attempts now) and am at 1150 rating, which I have been stuck at though I am still slowly improving. I have also begun reading Logical chess, and am about halfway through it. Though I feel I am not grasping from it as much as I could. My question is, is there a good rating level that I should get to first on the tactics trainer, that will reflect an adequate understanding of chess enough to read and absorb the books?

One last thing, the order I plan to read them is:

logical chess

Endgame course

amateurs mind

HTRYC

is this a good order? Thanks!

I don't think your book read order matters, it is more about your understanding of the material.

But Understanding of the material should come from somewhere...

Amateur's Mind before HTRYC, although I think Silman says the optimal way to do it is to read the first couple chapters of HTRYC, the all of AM, then the rest of HTRYC.

Endgame Course isn't something you read in one shot. It's got information that will last you all the way from your very first chess game to pushing for a master title. It's divided into sections by class, so I'd say just start working your way through. But this isn't a "read the book and know it forever" sort of thing, it's a "get out a board and play through the examples repeatedly until you know them on sight and don't have to think about them" sort of thing.

The most important thing is to go through each of these books thoroughly. At the very least, you should read them through once quickly and then a second time where you play through each diagram and example yourself. And play slow games where you try to implement what you've learned, and then have better players look over those games and tell you where you went wrong in trying to implement what you've learned.

A lot of smart chess players fall into the trap of trying to read as many books as they can, looking for the magic one that clicks with them and makes them better. The reality is, the books are more like training guides that show you how you need to train, but you still have to do the training, and that takes time and effort. If you put that into these books, they should last you for quite some time before you run out of stuff to learn from them.

Hi BDF92, looks like you have a nice stack of books. Have you read any tactics books before? If you have not, looking at one might be helpful. I like Predator at the Chessboard by Ward Farnsworth. I would keep working on tactics trainer until you can spot forks, discoveries, pins, skewers, removal of the guard and basic checkmates every time. I am about 1500 on another site and I still don't feel like I am there yet.

I would recommend reading the first couple chapters of Silman's Endgame Course. Logical Chess is definately going to be the first book you want to read after learning basic tactics and endgames.

 I think just about everything Bardu said is correct.  Keep working tactics, but you can study other things as well, as long as it is in addtion to the tactics, not in place of it.  I think the suggestion to read the first couple of chapters of Silman's book and then Chernev is excellent.  Chernev can be a little. . . dogmatic might be the word.  For every chess general principle there is probably a situation where you should break the general principle to meet the needs of the situation.  Still, you need to know the general ideas first before you can recoginize that they are not always right in every situation.  Its a very good book and I am working through it myself right now.