What is your favorite chess book?

Please mention your favorite chess book.

You can look here for ideas.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-books-and-youth-vs-old-age

The art of [removed, that was completely inappropriate -- MOD] by kosteniuk

It's not exactly a tactics book, but my understanding of chess has been most influenced by Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess.  The expanded 4th Edition looks great and I'm currently studying it.  I bought copies =back when the 1st Edition was new- for all the 900-1400 high school kids I coached and we won the county title and took home a State Tournament team trophy (one of our 3rd, 4th, 5h place state trophies through the years) and Silman's book was a help.

art of defence in chess by andy soltis. great book to study, you. really understand defence

Kosteniuk's is a great looking girl but she's famously petite. In that photo above, she's posing with pieces from a standard tournament set

Lev Albert's "Comprehensive Chess Course Vols 1 and 2"

LOL

My favorite book is the one I'm reading at present. In the past month, my favourites have included: Chess Informant 130; Andras Ajordan, Black is Back; Michael Stean, Simple Chess; Tadic, and Arsovic, Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures; Vladimir Barsky, The Ragozin Complex; Viktor Moskalenko, The Even More Flexible French; Paul Powell, The Fighting Dragon (reviewed on my blog--http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-fighting-dragon.html); and Richard Reti, Masters of the Chessboard.

"Drink Like a Grandmaster" by Mikhail Tal.

No, wait... "Pawn Power in Chess" by Hans Kmoch. Seriously.

I would have listed Kmoch, but it's only been off the shelf once in 2017 and not for very long. I did spend some time with it in 2016.

All-time favorite = "Pawn Power In Chess" by Hans Kmoch.

Current favorite = "Attacking Manual 1", 2nd Ed. by Jacob Aagaard

more about "Pawn Power In Chess"...

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/a-most-unfortunate-chess-book

Alekhine Best Games collection by Alekhine. Wonderful annotation.

I have his 888 Miniatures and spent some time going through part of it last fall. Makes me open to scoring a copy of Domination when I find a good quality copy at a price I like.

I started learning with The bible of the chessplayer, by James Eade. 

It is a very simple book but introduces you to some variants of very famous openings and shows you basic tactical patterns. It is very easy to understand and I like it. 

I am now studying Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Muller, it is a very big book and I think it will take me some years to really learn it, but so far it has been very helpful. 

the yusupov 9 vol collection

build boost and evolve (only finished the build series though)