You might like "Digital Design and Computer Architecture, RISC-V Edition" by Harris and Harris.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Digital_Design_and_Comp...

This book definitely skews pragmatic, hands on and doesn't assume much. Covers both VHDL and Verilog. Has sections on branch prediction, register renaming, etc.

I personally am not into the verilog specific books. For me HDLs are hardware description languages, so first you learn to design digital hardware, then you learn to describe them.

For that I highly recommend: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/engineering/c...

Great first book on the subject.