Any good Chess Books out there?

Chess books that really work, what is your favorite?

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Some of my favorites:

1. Anything by Sammy Reshevsky; Art of Positional play, Reshevsky on chess, etc.

2. Absolutely anything by David Bronstein; 200 open games, Zurich 1953, Bronstein on the King's Indian, etc.

3. Art of Sacrifice in chess by Rudolph Spielmann.

4. Art of Combination by Maxim Blokh.

5. Pawn power in chess by Hans Kmoch.

6. Practical Middlegame and Endgame tips by Edmars Mednis.

7. The Fine art of Swindling by Ali Mortizavi.

8. Any games collection of Korchnoi Fischer, Tal, Smyslov, Rubinstein, Tarrasch or any of your favorite players.

9. My System and My Praxis by Nimzovitch.

10. New in Chess Yearbooks.

11. The Middle game in Chess by Reuben Fine. (in fact anything by Fine is high quality)

12. Two knights Tango by Georgi Orlov.

13. Beating the King's Indian and Benoni by Anatoly Vaisser.