Book recommendations

for the improving chess amateur....."understandable" & "the next level"...(in order of increasing difficulty/challenge, i.e., the order in which I recommend they be studied, as each book builds on those preceding it)...

1. Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan

2. Weapons of Chess by Bruce Pandolfini

3. Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan

4. Simple Chess by Michael Stean

otherwise.....more good suggestions here...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

specifically for getting to the "next level".....

Good Positional Chess, Planning & Strategy Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-positional-chess-planning-strategy

and...

Pawn Play and Structure - for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/chess-books-on-pawn-play-and-structure

Simple Chess - Stean

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played - Chernev

Page for page, Simple Chess by Stean is the best chess book ever written.

^^^ You realise he just wanted actual book titles right? Logical Chess: Move by move and Master versus Amateur helped me a lot.

Alexander Alekhine:Master of Attack

About 45 years ago I started to play chess seriously and read (this was before smartphones, personal computers  and internet) chess literature. The two books that helped me the most were Emanuel Laskers "Common Sense in Chess" and Irving Chernev´s  "Logical Chess - Move by Move". I´ve never been much for memorizing openings but more of an intuitive player and returning to chess after a lengthy absence I shudder when I realize what computers have done to our game. On that score I agree with Fischer. Still, if one does not take it too seriously and play just for the fun of it I think the two books I´ve mentioned are worthwhile reading. (And you can find them, for free, in pdf-format on the net).

Simple Chess  by Michael Stean

Most Instructive games of chess ever played by Chernev

If you could mention the titles of those books it would be helpful.

I found Understanding Chess, Move by Move by John Nunn to be very good...