Start with high-confidence turkey & the ottoman era books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Istanbul
John Freely
The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
Ottoman Centuries
Lord Kinross
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq
Edward Seymour Forster
The Sultan Speaks
L. McJannet, Linda McJannet
The Man Who Stopped the Sultan
Edoardo Albert
The Great Siege, Malta 1565
Ernle Bradford
A Traveller's History of Turkey
Richard Stoneman
Turkey - Culture Smart!
Charlotte McPherson
Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
Mehrdad Kia
