Munkres - Topology (book) or Tej Bahadur Singh - Introduction to Topology (book)?

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I woud like a recommendation about which of these books is best for self study.

1) Munkres - Topology (And which edition? Pearson Limited or 2nd edition ?)

2) Tej Bahadur Singh - Introduction to Topology, 2019

My background in general topology is based on the breathtaking geometrical book: "John Lee - Introduction to Topological Manifolds". I have also read a bit of algebraic topology from this book and some notes about simply connected spaces by John Lee. This was my first touch with general topology. Sometimes I also used the book: "Marco Mannetti - Topology" about hard concepts I could not find somewhere else.

I started with Dr. Lee's book in order to have a solid geometrical topological background, I needed for further study of Smooth Manifolds. Recently I finished the first 5 chapters of the book "John Lee - Introduction to Smooth Manifolds". I would like to say with all this information that I have maturity in this subject and particularly in a geometrical way, but I must fill some gaps-concepts about topology, that Lee's book did not include. After a long research in the internet I found that the books written by Munkres and Tej Bahadur Singh seem complete about the knowledge they provide.

Furthermore I have 2 problem books in my library that I will use as supplement, if they are needed:

A) Lynn Arthur Steen, J. Arthur Seebach Jr. - Counterexamples in Topology

B) Viro O., Ivanov O., Netsvetaev N., Kharlamov V. - Elementary topology problem textbook

My plan is to master as much as I can the general and algebraic topology so I can use them later as an important tool for Manifold Theory.

So, the best road for complete self-study is [1. & A) & B)] or [2. & A) & B)] ?

Thank you very much for any answer, I woud appreciate any help because I study this for the love of Geometry.