Beginner Chess Books? What should I get?

So I have narrowed my chess book options to the following, and I can only get 2. Which ones should I get?:

1) Winning Chess Strategies by Seirawan (I already bought Winning Chess Tactics)

2)The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman

3) Silman's Complete Engame Course (guess who wrote it!)

4) Logical Chess: Move by Move by Chernev (Note: I think there are free pdf versions of this on the internet, if anyone could provide a working link it would be appreciated)

I would consider Silman's Complete Endgame Course, I recently purchased it online from amazon for a good price due to the Aus to US exchange rate at the moment.

How to Reassess Your Chess (4th Edition). Hands down the best book available for those trying to improve their fundamentals.

I think Reassess Your Chess is a very good book, but it's not really for beginners.

I would start with Logical Chess. It will be the best first book out of those that you mentioned.

I'm sure you will get great advice here, but I did a quick search (the empty box in the upper right hand corner) and came up with over 20 previous threads on this topic.  You should be able to compile a great list with all those posts.  Good luck.

OOPS.   In my haste to gather the magic 100th post, I didn't read yours very carefully.  Sorry, You already have a list.  Silman's "The Amateur's Mind" is the only one I've personally read and it is excellent.

I am starting with 4, then 3. 

I like http://www.abebooks.com/.  You can find almost anything there, used, at decent prices.  I've had good results there.

Amazon is an American site and when I tried to buy books from there it said that some books aren't sold internationally. And I did take a look at Reassess Your Chess and I have been told that it is only good for intermediate players. 

check out "my system" by nimzo.  it goes from beginner to advanced level strategies and is a MUST have for any player. 

Is 'My System' in algebraic notation? If not, I do not want it. I also think it is a bit too advanced for me. 

Logical chess is invaluable.  Get it.

Having ignored this sage advice myself, I suggest that you buy only one chess book at a time. It increases your chances of reading it cover to cover :)

As to which, I would suggest starting with Logical Chess and follow up with Silman's Endgame Course.

I already purchased the Amateur's Mind & Silman's Endgame Course over the internet and I have also gotten  Logical Chess & My System for free from filestube.com! So the final question is: is Winning Chess: Strategies by Seirawan any good? 

There is an algebraic version. Just make sure you get the right one if you get it.

Winning Chess Strategies is a fine book - the best in Seirawan's Winning Chess series asfaik (I own all of them). It's more accessable (written for beginners) than Reassess Your Chess in my opinion, with same theory covered.

I think you would be well set-up to play some solid, well-rounded chess after reading:

1) Winning Chess Strategies by Seirawan

3) Silman's Complete Engame Course

Then all you would need is a tactics book and you've covered all your bases.

http://www.bookdepository.com/ is good for Aussie book buyers - free shipping world-wide.

I have purchased and started to read My System and I am of the opinion that I should be reading something else first...

For the serious chess student I'd recommend the following for fast tracking to Master and above:

Get Artur Yusupov's (Jussupow) training books: build up your chess 1-3, boost your chess 1-3 and evolution 1-3(first one of these will be out in August and the other 2 in 2012). It's apparently the same course Anand did, but improved and in book format. That will take you from beginner to master, next, Dvoretsky and Yusupov's School of future champions and Dvortesky's School of Chess excellence will give you the understanding of a Grandmaster (these are extremely advanced books and will require a lot of hard work).

You'll also need to supplement the above with a few extra endgame books, my recommendations: 100 endgames you must know by de la villa, dvoretsky's endgame manual and practical chess endgames beyond the basics by Flear (in that order).

Also worthwhile getting a few books on pawn play e.g. Dynamic Pawn Play and Understanding Pawn Play by Marovic and Winning Pawn Structure by Baburin (this book is now out of print but you can prob download it for free online in pdf format).

Apart from all that it's then all about openings and you need to know the openings you play inside out. I can't say what openings you should play because that depends entirely on your style and temperament. But I can advise that when you have chosen your openings to study the games of the best players who used your openings, note down the different strategies and key break throughs/squares for either side etc and study the middlegames and endgames resulting  from the positions. You should do this for all the variations in each opening (will take ages but worth it). Then have like 3 model games from each variation and annotate them thoroughly, this will be an invaluable source later on if you ever forget some things.