Someone who writes a book with pragmatic advice, based on real life research, focused on delivering projects quickly, on time, and with few defects?
Instead it feels like almost all the writing in software is evangelizing.
I'd suggest anything and everything written by Gerald Weinberg, starting with what looks most appealing to you now.
'Making Software', edited by Wilson and Oram is chock-full of the latest research of its day (10 years ago.) It's dry, but it presents work of some top SE researchers. Following that group on twitter/Google scholar would bring you to the edge of what is studied in SE research.
Yes. Old but gold. Brian Kernighan. Jon Bentley. Google them and their books.
*I have no association with him whatsoever.