"... Just because a book contains lots of information that you don’t know, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be extremely helpful in making you better at this point in your chess development. ..." - Dan Heisman (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626180930/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman06.pdf
"... The books that are most highly thought of are not necessarily the most useful. Go with those that you find to be readable. ..." - GM Nigel Davies (2010)
"... If it’s instruction, you look for an author that addresses players at your level (buying something that’s too advanced won’t help you at all). This means that a classic book that is revered by many people might not be useful for you. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (2015)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever
"The Best Chess Books Ever" Reading List
I do not think that those books were suggested with a beginner in mind. Here are some possibilies that might be more suitable for someone who has not yet done much reading:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103149/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review594.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddins
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708100833/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review534.pdf
Simple Chess by Michael Stean
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104258/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review400.pdf
Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094419/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ammind.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
If you insist on staying within the confines of your list, this is my best guess about where to start.
OPENINGS and ENDINGS, Yasser Seirawan
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
THE ART OF CHESS COMBINATION, Znosko Borovsky
UNDERSTANDING CHESS MOVE BY MOVE by John Nunn
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092945/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review269.pdf
"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
"... Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess is considered a classic by many. Nonetheless, most people found it daunting and confusing, given its weird terminology. Also the scope the book was more theoretical than practical; not an easy book to read and study with. Grandmaster Andrew Soltis wrote Pawn Structure Chess, but its general focus was upon specific pawn formations evolving from various openings. The result is that one generally learns more about opening theory than about pawn structures. Both books must be frustrating to read and study from for those rated below 1700. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
"... The bulk of ['Winning Pawn Structures' by Alexander Baburin] consists of illustrative games, deeply annotated in the phases that are relevant to [isolated queen pawn] theory. ... The foregoing example is typical in its combination of exposition and detailed analysis. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140718055446/http://chesscafe.com:80/text/wps.txt
"... a book like [Dynamic Chess Strategy] needs to be digested properly, over time, ... to really understand what Suba is presenting here takes many readings and much study - and most of all, much thinking. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233425/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review775.pdf
"... All club players (1800 and up) should definitely get [School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play by Mark Dvoretsky]. Beginners may want to have the text just for the 'golden rules' of thinking and skip the analysis. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233203/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review333.pdf
"... In my own teaching to average players I am still using Mueller and Lamprecht's Fundamental Chess Endings, which has a wonderful balance between Encyclopaedic coverage (I can find almost anything), examples that can be shortened at most points, and clear explanations that bring together endings of the same sort. ... it seems to me, a teacher's guidance is preferable, ..." - IM John Watson (2005)
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/the-end-game-comes-before-we-know-it
"... In fact, one will not learn the basics from [Shereshevsky's 'Endgame Strategy'] at all; rather, it is a series of mostly complex examples, often in the middlegame rather than in the ending! ... I like this book a lot, but it has more to do with transitions from the middlegame than with endings themselves."
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/endings-endings-ending
"... I don't know how useful ['Endgame Virtuoso'] will be to the average player, since so many of the endings are won by superior calculation, and there is little thematic unity among them. For the advanced student, these are instructive and realistic endgames; ..."
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/endings-endings-endings
"... lower rated players will get something useful out of [the first section by Golombek] ..., [Kotov's 'Strategy and Tactics of Attack on the King' and 'Various Pawn Positions in the Center'] will be enjoyed by Class B and A players ... the two Keres’ offerings: 'How to Defend Difficult Positions' and 'The Art of Analysis.' ... are advanced, and I think that players of expert strength and higher will get the most out of them (actually, 'The Art of Analysis' is for senior masters, IMs, and grandmasters). ..."
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Art-of-the-Middlegame-The-77p3554.htm
"... I can strongly recommend Mastering The Chess Openings: Volume 2 to all chess players from 1800 on up. ..."
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/mastering-the-chess-openings-volume-2-76p3570.htm
@123babelfish -
Based on your rating, most of the books in your list are too advanced for your current level....you must learn to walk before you can run, that is, focus on books which provide plenty of exposure to fundamentals, at the most basic level, and which are targeted primarily to the beginner-novice (most of the books in these "Greatest Chess Books" lists are targeted to the advanced player). Of the books in your list, for you I could only recommend Lev Alburt's chess course and the Jeremy Silman's Endgame book.
The following contains many books appropriate for you at this point in your chess development....for example, books by Bruce Pandolfini, Dan Heisman and Yasser Seirawan. Also Jeff Coakley's "Winning Chess Strategy for Kids" contains a tremendous amount of excellent chess instruction for every beginner-novice (it's not just for kids!)...
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Thanks to all for the thoughtful comments!
Do you have any opinions about the Yuspupov series?
"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
"... Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess is considered a classic by many. Nonetheless, most people found it daunting and confusing, given its weird terminology. Also the scope the book was more theoretical than practical; not an easy book to read and study with. Grandmaster Andrew Soltis wrote Pawn Structure Chess, but its general focus was upon specific pawn formations evolving from various openings. The result is that one generally learns more about opening theory than about pawn structures. Both books must be frustrating to read and study from for those rated below 1700. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
Neither book will spoon-feed you, correct. Both Pawn Power in Chess and Pawn Structure Chess will demand that the reader should think. I count those as strengths, rather than weaknesses.
123babelfish wrote: "Do you have any opinions about the Yusupov series?"
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Build-up-Your-Chess-1-exceprt.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103321/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review699.pdf
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Build-up-your-chess-2-excerpt.pdf
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Build-up-Your-Chess-3-exceprt.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103659/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review778.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Boost-Your-Chess-1-77p3744.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Boost-Your-Chess-1-excerpt.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Boost-Your-Chess-2-77p3745.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/BoostYourChess2-excerpt.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Boost-Your-Chess-3-77p3746.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/BoostYourChess3.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103149/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review834.pdf
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Chess-Evolution-1-excerpt.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085817/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review843.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Chess-Evolution-2-77p3643.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Chess_Evolution_2-excerpt.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Chess-Evolution-3-Mastery-77p3753.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Chess_Evolution_3-excerpt.pdf
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/QandAwithArturYusupovQualityChessAugust2013.pdf
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Revision&Exam1-excerpt.pdf
Do you have any opinions about the Yuspupov series?
I've heard of the Yusupov series, but I have no experience with it. But from what I recall, it gets generally good reviews. For you, the question must be - is it appropriate for your current skill level. However, I'm not in a position to answer that.
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/14/artur_yusupovs_awardwinning_training_course/
I made a new list based on some of these recommendations. I think you all saved me a lot of time slogging through texts without the proper preparation. Much appreciated!
... THE INNER GAME OF CHESS by Andy Soltis
... FISCHER: HIS APPROACH TO CHESS - Elie Agur
... ROAD TO CHESS IMPROVEMENT by Alex Yermolinsky ...
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Inner-Game-of-Chess-The-77p3897.htm
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Bobby-Fischer-77p3503.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233827/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/road.txt
"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
"... Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess is considered a classic by many. Nonetheless, most people found it daunting and confusing, given its weird terminology. Also the scope the book was more theoretical than practical; not an easy book to read and study with. Grandmaster Andrew Soltis wrote Pawn Structure Chess, but its general focus was upon specific pawn formations evolving from various openings. The result is that one generally learns more about opening theory than about pawn structures. Both books must be frustrating to read and study from for those rated below 1700. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
Neither book will spoon-feed you, correct. Both Pawn Power in Chess and Pawn Structure Chess will demand that the reader should think. I count those as strengths, rather than weaknesses.
I generally agree with blueemu, although just like the referenced book by Silman, both the Soltis and Kmoch books are also probably too advanced for the OP at this point in his chess development.
Regarding Pawn Power In Chess by Hans Kmoch......
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/pawn-power-in-chess-by-hans-kmoch
Do you have any opinions about the Yuspupov series?
The Yusupov series is excellent, but probably too advanced for you at this point. Reviews I've seen indicate that it is aimed at players rated around 1600 ELO. My own experience, at around 1800 USCF, is that it is challenging.
You would do better to study the books in RussBell's blog, linked above, and work your way up to the other stuff. This opinion is based on hard experience: as a novice player and beyond, I wasted tons of study time on material that was beyond my understanding. I thought it was cool to be studying Fischer and Botvinnik, but I got essentially nothing from it. It's better to be patient and learn the basics, then the more sophisticated material, and then the even more complex stuff.
Hope this perspective helps. Much success in your chess pursuits. 
Do you have any opinions about the Yuspupov series?
The Yusupov series is excellent, but probably too advanced for you at this point. Reviews I've seen indicate that it is aimed at players rated around 1600 ELO. My own experience, at around 1800 USCF, is that it is challenging.
You would do better to study the books in RussBell's blog, linked above, and work your way up to the other stuff. This opinion is based on hard experience: as a novice player and beyond, I wasted tons of study time on material that was beyond my understanding. I thought it was cool to be studying Fischer and Botvinnik, but I got essentially nothing from it. It's better to be patient and learn the basics, then the more sophisticated material, and then the even more complex stuff.
Hope this perspective helps. Much success in your chess pursuits.
Not surprisingly, I would agree whole heartedly with this perspective/approach (regardless of whether you avail yourself of my blog or not).....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
I read the chess.com blog post about the "Greatest Chess Books" and have put together a list I'd like to try to use to create a course of study. I would love it if I could get some feedback from those in the know about the most advantageous order to read these titles.