Start with high-confidence linguistics books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Power of Babel
John McWhorter
Language Vs. Reality
N.J. Enfield
Linguistics and Philosophy
Etienne Gilson
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Daniel L. Everett
Biting the Wax Tadpole
Elizabeth Little
The Languages of Tolkien's Middleearth
Atanielle Annyn Rowland
Optimality Theory
Diana Archangeli, Terence Langendoen
Syntax
Andrew Carnie
Linguaphile
Julie Sedivy
Thinking Syntactically
Liliane Haegeman
