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How to Reassess Your Chess - If you can only read one book this is the one to read. Third edition is insanely cheap, but if you want to fork over the extra 20 get the 4th edition.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Reassess-Your-Chess-Chess-Mastery/dp/1890085006/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483020174&sr=1-2&keywords=how+to+reassess+your+chess
Chess and the Art of War is a fun read. Easy and precise.
https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Art-War-Ancient-Wisdom/dp/0785832815
> In any case, and at its core, Sun Tzu wrote a treatise on asymmetrical warfare, which doesn't translate in any meaningful way to symmetrical games, like pool or chess.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/for-those-who-study-sun-tzu-quotthe-art-of-warquot
https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-versus-Pool-billiards/dp/1625052154
https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Art-War-Ancient-Wisdom/dp/0785832815
http://www.uschesstrust.org/sun-tzus-the-art-of-war/
Or the thousands of other games/jobs/situations to which people have applied the philosophy.
Your failure to understand the connection isn't the book's fault, and I'd advise you to read the whole thing and reflect on it w/r/t your game—even if you've read it before, you probably weren't ruminating about pool.
Or don't—it won't change how glad I am that I did.