What are you looking for, IRosed, the order they should be read? The books listed are like comparing apples and oranges; some are just puzzle books while others such as How To Reassess Your Chess may be too advanced for your rating level.
If you insist on reading these specific books, go right ahead, but I'd like to recommend something else. Click here and read Post No. 5 and 7. I think they will help you.
Best,
Bob
All are good books. Study these 2 books first. 5334 and Basic Endgame Strategy. The rest can wait.
I disagree with Mandy711 that 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games should be read first. That's putting the cart before the conceptual horse except for one move mates. Learning the tactical concepts from books I pointed to in my initial post will put you on a good footing. Then you can go on to massive puzzle books.
5334 Problems... isn't a studying book nor does it teach tactics. It's aimed for improving calculation, since its mainly contains mate in 2 and 3 problems. you can use it the next few years beside other books who are more for studying.
Are you asking me, and can I assume you are talking about your list of books? I own over a thousand chess books, but oddly the only one from your list I have in my collection is How To Reassess Your Chess, 3rd and 4th editions.
I recommend going to Amazon and reading the reviews on these books, or type the name of the book into the Google search field and add <+ review>. After that, use your own judgment.
Lastly, I agree with PlonkyPenguin on 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games not teaching tactics, but others may disagree.
I like fightingbob's suggestions better. Irving Chernev's Logical Chess Move by Move is an annotated games collection, so you get a feel for how opening shifts to middlegame and middlegame to endgame. Chernev explains the ideas behind each move.
The Art of Checkmate is an old classic with some really beautiful mating patterns from Morphy, Anderssen et al. John Nunn's Learn Chess Tactics is a good book, but maybe a bit challenging. How about Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics or Murray Chandler's How to Beat Your Dad at Chess?
For endgames, a lot of players seem to like Jeremy Silman or Yasser Seirawan's books.
For openings I might go with Seirawan again or even Reuben Fine's The Ideas behind the Chess Openings.
Is there a library near you?
The Mammoth book,of the best games ever played is very good.
I enjoyed The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by John Nunn, John Emms and Graham Burgess. It's an annotated games collection, but a bit more challenging than Chernev's.
I enjoyed The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by John Nunn, John Emms and Graham Burgess. It's an annotated games collection, but a bit more challenging than Chernev's.
I probably should pick up a copy of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, but it's printed on such damn cheap paper. It doesn't matter now because I checked and it's out of print except, of course, the e-Book. Perhaps, Robinson, the publisher, had already scraped the bottom of the barrel paper-wise and gave up. 
The Mammoth Book was almost as bad as Grandmaster of Chess: The Complete Games of Paul Keres, the 1972 Arco paperback compilation of three hardbacks of Keres' games. What a piece of rubbish that was, and some putz on Amazon wants almost $75 for his "new" copy. Pathetic.
The book was reprinted in two volumes by Batsford on much better paper, namely Paul Keres: Road to the Top and Paul Keres: The Quest for Perfection. Unfortunately, they are both out of print with RTTT very expensive as a used book.
Sorry, sort of got off the track there.
I think chesstempo tactics is better than almost all books at the OPs level.
I think chesstempo tactics is better than almost all books at the OPs level.
I disagree with this. Chess Tactics for Champion for me is the best tactical book ever(designed for beginner/advance beginner). What's great about this book is that it is diverse. Other beginner tactical book will have the common pin, fork and double attack problems. But this book has stalemate, pawn promotion, game saving combination ,counter tactical attack, destroying king castled position and king on the out side problems. This book also has 2 move, 3 move and 4 move mate problems. There are more tactical themes in this book that I did not mentioned.
I think chesstempo tactics is better than almost all books at the OPs level.
I just went to chesstempo tactics and up came a combination to solve, which isn't too helpful. I see there is a drop down for tactical motifs, but one example is not nearly enough.
There should be many examples and thorough explanations divided into pins, skewers, forks, discovered checks and double checks not to mention combinative themes covered in Improve Your Chess Tactics (originally, Test Your Tactical Ability) with generous sections on deflection, decoying, eliminating defenders, clearing squares and lines, pinning and unpinning, interference and shutting off. Then comes the process of combining themes, also well demonstrated.
If you are weaving a mating net, you have to know where you're headed with the mates found in The Art of Checkmate. What's attractive about this book is seeing the mates develop from actual games; it doesn't just say here's the Arabian mate and here's the Epaulette mate.
It's my opinion, there is too much piecemeal, incomplete stuff on the Internet for getting off the group running, though it is good for an endless array of tests once you know the combinative themes.
ACtually, chesstempo works a lot better than you think despite not being categorized.
I've done a fair number of categorized books, and I think the uncategorized tactics are more realistic drills of your in-game calculation and recognition.
You'll also repeatedly get nailed by motifs you're bad at in Chesstempo, so it'll autoreinforce.
The scaling with your rating is hugely important, in my opinion. With chesstempo, you'll get a lot of good tactics that you WILL see in games of your level, rather than spending a lot of time studying a 2200 level checkmate that you'd have no chance of calculating on your own without the answer.
I studied a lot of categorized tactics in the 1001 Reinfeld Combinations book, and chesstempo is a lot better than it, both in format and efficacy.
I'm sure there's more than one way to skin a cat, but chesstempo is pretty darn good for a free option. (It's my #1 go to now for tactics, more than all my chess tactics books.)
you can't go wrong with books by Jeremy Silman.
I wouldn't recommend them for a neophyte, except The Amateur's Mind. However, as one fellow says repeatedly in his Amazon reviews, Silman has made a career out of restating Nimzovich and others. The concept of imbalances is nothing new, but he does a good job explaining them when he's not being cute.
I actually really dislike Silman's "Reasssess your CHess" books.
The ideas and concepts he's discussing are perfectly fine and yes, they're critically important.
But he does them in such an opaque and convoluted manner than I feel more confused after reading his books than before I started.
I thought those concepts were just going to be intrinsically really complex, but after seeing a bunch of youtube videos and other books that illustrate them on crystal clear, and basic level, I quickly realized that there are many much better resources to learn positional chess.
Even now at 1600 blitz, I find most of Silman's stuff too confusing for it's own good - he'll talk about minor piece imbalances, the suddenly get sidetracked on a big tactical concept, then jump back to some other idea. And wayyyyy too much text for what only needs some simplified diagrams and clearer examples.
The Mammoth Book Of Chess
Weapons of Chess
5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games
Basic EndGame Strategy
How To Reassess Your Chess
Winning with Reverse Strategy
and if you were to organize these, for example.. Mammoth is a learn openings kind of book. Stick to topic please, don't go random and say.. "OH YOU SHOULDNT BE LEARNING OPENINGS AT YOUR LEVEL YET" thank you.