Have the printed version of the CRPG book. It's great.

https://if50.textories.com/ is another really good one that dives into the early days of game design. The story around The Hobbit is a great example of emergent gameplay.

Bitmap Books has many beautiful books on games, you’d have to browse their catalog.

I liked The Secret History of Mac Games myself. But might not be interesting to you if you didn’t own a Mac when young.

https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/the-secret-history-of-m...