Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking: From the First Move to the Last Paperback by Neil McDonald (Batsford)

You will learn a lot from this instructive book. As others have already mentioned this book gives "blow by blow" commentary from 30 relatively recent games. All sorts of openings are covered: the open games (Sicilan, Spanish), d4-d5 games (QGD) as well as the flank openings (english and catalan) and, of course, the KID and Gruenfeld's defense.

I really like the games between Miles and Ulf Andersson and McNab and Adams --> excellent positional battles.

If you are in the 1400-1700 rating range, I think this book will be very helpful. Each game has some analysis but not enough to make reading the book overly boring. I agree that very strong players may not like how many alternative moves are not discussed but the aim of these sorts of books are to lean on verbal explanations instead of detailed analysis.

Really this book as it all. There are games with Shirov, Kramnik, Seirawan, Karpov, Kasparov, Miles, Adams, Anand (and the list goes on). Chernev's classic book does not give much coverage of the flank openings, the Indian defenses, and other more modern openings. I think the commentary and analysis is on par with Chernev's. So if you like Logical Chess: Move by Move, you'll like McDonald's books just as much.

What don't I like? I think this is a minor knit, but the games aren't really organized by any particular strategical theme. Rather, the book is sort of based on the various openings (open, flank, queen's pawn, and so on). Maybe that was McDonald's aim as his other books give more detailed coverage on weak squares, bad pieces, and other ideas. So you don't know what to expect when you are reviewing the games in most cases. Some of the battles are very dynamic and others are slower and more positional in nature. Maybe that's the best way to describe how the book is organized.

Overall I really enjoyed reading this book. You get coverage on many of the most popular openings played by the game's best players. The book is very easy to read and is geared toward the intermediate tournament player.