@Ihavenothing They have plenty of text. Try, for example, "Three Steps to Chess Mastery" or "Plan like a Grandmaster". Of course, the central axis of most of his books are commented games. But every good chess book has to use commented games in order to get deeper into how a master thinks.
By the way, another great chess author that I recommend is Alexander Kotov.
@Supercerebraco thx, i only saw his opening books and remember only chess notation.
I got a lot of value from reading Renaud and Kahn's "Art of the Checkmate" which I read even in descriptive notation. You can get it now in modern and also it has been carefully re-edited. A true classic that teaches not just checkmate patterns but also gives short games leading up to them, so you can see how to set the patterns up. A wonderful read.
I also got a lot from Pandolfini's Endgame Course.
You can absolutely get to >1800 on those two books alone, and a solid basic opening repertoire for White and Black. To get above 2000 you will need to become deeply comfortable with your opening systems and learn the traps from those openings, the standard middlegames you will get, and also play in typical middlegames.
People speak of Nimzowitch's books, and they should, but also, that should be balanced with Tarrasch's book, if one is studying the Classics. Kasparaov said he leans more towards Tarrasch's views than Nimzowitch's views, but that you need to understand both poles. Modern games are much more precise anyway, so one should only read these things for the grand sweep of ideas.