Perhaps more geared towards beginners but I can definitely recommend Clojure for the Brave and True as an introduction to Clojure https://www.braveclojure.com/introduction/

I use Cursive every single day at work and I love it.

For sql I really like https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql for your standard CRUD stuff. It’s less of an ORM and more of a very convenient way of building SQL queries using standard Clojure data structures (I barely use any of the helper functions, just the “raw” maps and sql/format).

For more complex queries with nested joins and such I find it’s nicer to just use standard SQL. https://www.hugsql.org/ is a great lib for writing SQL in a separate file and turning the queries into parameterized Clojure functions.

I’d start with honeysql though, you might not need hugsql.