How to properly study books

what books do you have? maybe you are using advance books? it could take some time before you grasp what you are studying.

Study  these books in order. Take some time studying them. Repeat playing the games over the board if you feel it can help you understand them better. For Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, you don't need a board. Solve them without setting the pieces on a board.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

Play Winning Chess

Chess for Dummies by James Eade

Logical Chess Move by Move

Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess

The Complete Book of Chess Strategy by Silman

Maybe read the other books after 2 years. Stop playing bullet as it is too fast for you to apply the things you learned. Play at longer time control of at least 20 minutes. You can still play blitz, but also play at longer time control.

From your list, you don't have a tactics book. If you can try getting World's Champion Guide to Chess by Polgar. It contains many puzzles.

the books he listed are not grand master level. if you don't have a coach, you need to study to improve.

Here's how to tackle these books in the proper order:

-Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

-Play Winning Chess by Seirawan

-Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess

These first three are the easiest. The Fischer book is just diagrams. The Seirawan book is an excellent, straightforward introduction to the game. The Waitzkin book is also diagram-driven, but more sophisticated.

-Logical Chess Move by Move by Chernev

This is the best next step. As others have said, it has its flaws - but it's still a great book. Procedure: play the games through on a real board, hide the annotations on an index card, try to guess the next move (don't cheat), and then read the annotations.  

-Silman's The Amateur's Mind

-How to Reassess Your Chess 4th edition

-Nimzowitsch's My System and Chess Praxis

These are excellent, but more difficult. The Nimzo books are classics, but they're hard.

These last two aren't so useful, though the dummies book is OK.

-The Complete Book of Chess Strategy by Silman

- and finally, Chess for Dummies by James Eade

As with everything, in chess we learn the most when we encounter something we don't understand very well. Personally, I do this: whenever studying a book or a pro chess game, at every point I ask myself, "Would I make this move in my own game?" If the answer is "no" or "probably not", then I look at this particular move very precisely, go back and forth to see the consequences of this move, put the game into an engine and look at the possible variations this move leads to... Only once I've "mastered the move", understood it completely and my answer to the question shifted from "no/probably not" to "I would strongly consider it", I move on further.

You can learn a lot of things from just one game this way, because deeply analyzing moves looking weird/wrong to you leads you to finding flaws in your thinking. I'll give you an example. I've studied this game in a great depth in the last few days:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032212

14...Nc6 move initially left me stumbled. In my game, I would stop considering this move after a few seconds, because 15. d5 looks extremely dangerous. Now, properly working out the lines by myself and later with an engine, I see the reasoning behind this move, it no longer looks unnatural/wrong to me, and I know that if I were in a similar position in my own game, I would be able to play 14...Nc6. Now, in all games with the setup d7-e6-f5 I see how developing the knight to Nc6 can be possible even in the light of the d5 break.

Once you've analyzed a decent number of games and moves like this, you start noticing improvement in your game, as you start paying more attention to ideas that before looked dubious to you, seeing a bigger picture behind them. Same goes for books: do not be satisfied with the author's explanation, be critical, be annoying, attack everything you even remotely find questionable with all the energy you have, and only when you've convinced yourself that this is indeed the way the author claims it is, move on. Just reading books and nodding, "Okay, this makes sense", leads nowhere. Be that annoying student that never shuts up and keeps asking difficult questions, except in this case you are to find the answers to your questions by yourself.

Read them.

For me at least, the key to learning from books is to not try to learn too much at once. The brain needs time to process stuff; if I try reading several chapters in one sitting, most of the effort goes to waste. If I do want to study for hours at a time, I try to mix things up a bit. I can't read an opening book for two hours straight, but I can read it for thirty minutes, then do a few tactics puzzles, then I look over some old game of mine, and then perhaps look at the opening book again.