Start with high-confidence cultural anthropology books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Bahrain Through the Ages - Archa
Shaikha Haya Ali Al Khalifa, Michael Rice
Literature of Modern Arabia
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Literary History of the Arabs
Professor Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
Silencing the Past
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Anasazi America
David E. Stuart
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
The Immortality Key
Brian C. Muraresku, Michael Pollan
Anthropology
William Haviland, Harald Prins
Our Political Nature
Avi Tuschman, Jay Snyder
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Jacqueline Knörr, Christoph Kohl