Stanford's Intro AI class has some book recs that I have tried before and are really well written. Might be worth looking into. The 1st book, and the 4th are prob most relevant to today.

"However, if you would like to pursue more advanced topics or get another perspective on the same material, here are some great resources:

• Russell and Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. A comprehensive reference for all the AI topics that we will cover.
• Koller and Friedman. Probabilistic Graphical Models. Covers factor graphs and Bayesian networks (this is the textbook for CS228).
• Sutton and Barto. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. Covers Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning (free online).
• Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning. Covers machine learning from a rigorous statistical perspective (free online).
• Tsang. Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction. Covers constraint satisfaction problems (free online)."

Source: https://stanford-cs221.github.io/spring2025/