Things like space, development, and counting defenders (related to over-protection) could be thought of as positional or strategic ideas, so I suggest some books along those lines.
Nimzowitsch's book "My System" is a classic and is highly regarded for these kinds of fundamentals of chess. Although, in my opinion at least, it's not a good book to start on. You could learn from it though, it would not be a waste of money, but perhaps as a book to grow on.
Seriwan's "winning chess strategies" is a fine book.
As for openings, I wouldn't suggest an opening book, but instead play many games, and afterwards use something like this site's opening explorer (which you can find under Learn > Openings > Game Explorer) This way you can find the point when you left "book" and see the reasonable alternatives to the move you played in the game.
Opening books aren't very useful at first, in fact not until 1800 or even 2000 (which is at least 2100 turn based here). But going through you games like this will help you build a good repertoire. In the mean time be sure you're working on tactics
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