I am enjoying the three volume set of Botvinniks best games translated to english by Ken Neat from Botvinniks own comments in russian. 

http://www.amazon.com/Botvinniks-Best-Games-1942-1956/dp/8071893706
From the BCF webpage: 
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/reviews/bcmrev0004.html

This is Botvinnik’s Analiticheskie i kriticheskie raboty 1923-1941 (Moscow 1984), translated into English by Ken Neat. Two further volumes are in preparation, relating to the periods 1942-1956 and 1957-1970. This volume contains 121 games with Botvinnik’s annotations, plus pen pictures of many of his opponents. It is noticeable that his 1984 chess autobiographical work reveals more of the man and his opponents than his 1949 work (later translated and still available in the Dover edition Botvinnik: One Hundred Selected Games). References to 1970s and 1980s games are clear evidence of Botvinnik’s chess researches continuing well beyond 1970, when he retired from international chess. The games are supplemented with 30 pages of crosstables and statistics of Botvinnik’s career, 16 pages of excellent photographs (many never previously published), translator’s notes and an index of openings. Though print quality is slightly below par and despite the gremlins that have crept into the photo captions, overall this is a superb work which does justice to one of the all-time great chess players at a time when he was crossing swords with the legendary stars of the inter-war period.

BTW, 

I'd like to start another thread about where to find good chess in vacation hot spots.  Whaddya think?

Marin's "Learn from the Legends".

Leaving all the opening books at home - I hope to finally focus on the other phases of the game and chess generally

I have Silman's endgame book and Polgar's 5,334 chess puzzles to work through.  I have to say the one-move mates so far are a hoot.  It's fun to solve six puzzles a minute, and the eerie thing is how it works...I can feel myself getting faster and faster at them.   

I've also read up through "Class C" in the Silman book.  It's going too fast.  He has to be my favorite chess author.  (Urk, comment in wrong thread.)  I should say--he's the one I would write like if I were writing chess books.

Ptero wrote on 07/06/07 at 20:13:59:


My pile has just grown   

Well I'm trying to get a break from the addictive lure of opening theory and direct my attention towards endgames. I've given little attention to this for a long time, apart from the Muller Endgame DVDs (these are great BTW). So I have a little pile prepared consisting of

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy
Emm's Survival Guide to Rook Endings 
Silman's Complete Endgame Course

I hope to get through the first two minimum, but I predict something like another Khalifmann Anand series book coming out and distracting me  

I have been enjoying GM Yermolisky's Chess Explained: Classical Sicilian. Up after this work is 'The Road to Chess Improvement' by the same author.

I think The Sharpest Sicilian by Georgiev/Kolev is the best chess book I've bought recently. I've got tons of Najdorf books and it's the best I've found. (Starting Out: Sicilian Najdorf by Palliser is also tops, but it's more of a survey and for my needs, I like the repertoire better).