What to Read After Chess
Readers who loved Chess by Laszlo Polgar keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Chess is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Chess
The ideas behind the chess openings
The Immortal Game
Modern chess openings
Chess fundamentals
My System
Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess
Winning Chess Strategies, revised (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
The art of attack in chess
My best games of chess, 1908-1937
The mammoth book of the world's greatest chess games
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
My 60 Memorable Games
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
The Amateur's Mind
Understanding Chess Move by Move
Bobby Fischer teaches chess
The complete book of chess strategy
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
Weapons of chess
The reassess your chess workbook
Silman's complete endgame course
Mastering the Chess Openings
How to reassess your chess