Good Chess books

Logical Chess: Move by Move is a great one for beginners.

OK thanks for the quick response and pointing in the right direction

does anyone know the one in the queen's gambit (the one shaibel gives her about openings u think)

me i know

Modern Chess Openings. Literally the worst book that any player could read to try and improve their chess right now. It's an outdated book focusing entirely on the one part of the game that can become outdated. And even when there were up to date editions being put out regularly, it was really a reference for master level or higher players, not something that average players should be studying to learn from.

The book Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors is good.

I recommend The Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess. It is not specifically aimed at beginners but it is easy enough for beginners to follow. It is a nice mix of puzzles and prose, teaching how to play openings, middle game and end game, as well as other topics such as computer analysis. As you improve, you can come back to whichever parts of interest to you. You will get more out of the book every time you come back to it.

Books are very much a personal choice. I read the reviews, try and preview some pages (if available) and still have only have a 50% success rate, meaning I tend to give up on half. Sometimes because I find they aren't aimed at my rating, either too easy or too hard, sometimes because great chess players aren't necessarily great authors and educators (they need to be both). The ones I like, I read from cover-to-cover and value highly. Logical Chess +1. GM Simon Williams also had a good move-by-move book called How To Win At Chess Quickly. Corny title but it is because all the games are less than 25 moves.

Sorry, my point was that there are some great recommendations in this thread, you may not get on with all of them and may have to experiment a bit.