Best Books For Beginner Chess Enthusiast?

Hey everyone, 

   Whats your opinion on the best books for strategy for beginners?

John Bain's "Chess Tactics for Students" was great for me. It is very, very simple, to a point that I thought it was useless while working through it, but it translated into game play extremely well (at least it did for me). I was playing at ~800-900, with no idea how to improve. After working through the book, and some online play, I saw reasonable improvement to ~1100-1200, over a ~2 month period. In general, many people (certainly not all) believe beginners should focus almost exclusively on tactics, and not positional chess, or openings, etc.

I also really liked Yasser Sierawan's "Winning Chess Tactics" as a follow up to Bain's book. Other popular books would be Silman's "Reassess Your Chess", and Artur Yusupov's "Build up your Chess: The Fundamentals", but I would save those until at least after Bain's "Chess Tactics for Students".

Edit: I missed that you were specifically looking for "strategy". I really like the Yusupov and Silman books listed above. Silman is almost exclusively strategy (if not entirely), while Yusupov's book is a mix of everything, with a lot of strategy throughout.

I believe it's Chernev's Logical Chess Move By Move. It will take you beyond real beginner stage. Ignore the Sokolov suggestion until you have played for a while.

It will teach you the importance of rapid development, control of the centre and features some exciting kingside attacks in the first section. Moreover Chernev keeps repeating the same things over and over again like a drill sergeant. A very didactic book and very enjoyable to work through as well !

lasker manual of chess written by world champion is the best beginner book

Jeremy Silman's chess books are good for explaining many basic things in chess.